Blog number 141 Jan 14, 2008
I'm reading this book about war at sea and at one point it is talking about training aircraft pilots. In discussing soloing, one Lt. Warner states,
"You are so elated over your first successful flight that nothing else matters. You walk back to lunch differently than you ever did before. You feel that you really amount to something in the world now. There is a firmness and determination in your step and possibly you swagger just a bit. You walk this way until after your first crash."
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Jap sailors used to mix large quantities of water with industrial strength Ethel alcohol for drinking purposes and they used to burn off the excess alcohol because Ethel alcohol has a strong smell and they didn't want their superiors to smell what they were doing.
If the fumes from the alcohol permeated an enclosed space, it could blow up a ship, which happened to a number of Jap ships. The loss of the admiral's flagship Mikasa, and the battleship Mutsa in 1942 was widely believed to have occurred for this reason.
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