Word: christied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Purpose of this routine: to weed out the impossibles before students go on to more advanced training at Pensacola or at the Navy's two new training bases at Jacksonville and Corpus Christi. Since it costs the Navy some $15,000 to educate a pilot for officer duty with the fleet, it pays the Navy to pick & choose...
...becomes one of the flying cadets now enlisted as seamen second class for elimination flight training. During the first month he gets ten hours of flight instruction. If he manages to solo, he gets a crack at advanced training and a commission on graduation (but with Jacksonville and Corpus Christi still abuilding, there is a two-to-three-month wait...
...seven men in the plane, the little lifetime that is a flight had begun at 6:30 a.m., in San Diego. If all went well it would end seven hours later at Corpus Christi, on the Gulf of Mexico, 1,200 miles across the plains and mountains of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas. Other Navy patrol bombers of the same type (Consolidated PBY) had made so many nonstop hops of 2,500 and 3,000 miles that this delivery flight from the factory was a routine matter. The ship, with its hull built only for landing on water...
They flew out of the snow, into fog and rain, then at 6:45 p.m. happily down to a shallow lake on Richard King's Santa Fe Ranch near Edinburg, 80 miles southwest of Corpus Christi. The officers slept in the plane, were found next morning by two cowboys who led them out of the desert brush to the ranch house. Then Murray Hanson learned what happened to the men who had jumped at his order. One was killed; his parachute had been torn from his body. One was unhurt. Three were injured and in hospitals at Big Spring...
...saluted by Secretary Frank Knox as "an old, old friend and one who carries with him a punch in the minds and heads of young men," Gene Tunney, onetime Marine and heavyweight champion of the A. E. F., took charge of physical education at the Pensacola, Jacksonville and Corpus Christi stations...