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...active duty. Though White saw no combat in Korea, he decided to stay in the Air Force. His cool, precise flying won him two years of experimental-test-pilot training. Since 1955. White has checked out four hot jet fighters: the F-86K. F-89H. F-1O2 and F-105B. The 105 nearly did him in. He was booming along at 1,000 m.p.h. when a piece of the intake duct broke off and shot through the entire engine. "If it had torn up the compressor," he says now. "the whole plane would have blown...