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...pilot turned and saw that the entire fuselage behind the cockpit had been sliced off. He struggled to get up, rose, and then was violently sucked at by the screaming wind. The wind smashed against his exposed body, whipped and cut his face, clawed at his "cringing, sight less eyeballs." but did not pull him out, because his right leg was caught in the cockpit. Down plunged the pilot and the plane. Then, under the inhuman pressure, the man's right leg snapped off his body...
Bader proved as extraordinary in prison camp as in the cockpit of a Spit. He immediately demanded that the Germans search for the leg snapped off in the crash. The Germans found it badly crushed, but repaired it expertly and handed it back to Bader. He gratefully strapped it on-and within days escaped. One night Bader simply knotted some bedsheets and climbed out of the hospital where he was recuperating. A waiting guide led him off, saying: "C'est bon. C'est magnifique!" But before he could move on to England he was betrayed to the Nazis...
Boeing took its new plane to demonstrate to Army Air Corps brass at Wright Field in Dayton. With an Army pilot in the cockpit, and Boeing's Chief Test Pilot Leslie Tower aboard, Boeing's 6-17 took off. But the pilot was unaware that the tail surfaces had a lock to keep them from being buffeted by the wind when on the ground. With the controls locked, the plane took off, lurched over on one wing, crashed and burned. Both Tower and the Army flyer were killed. Boeing collected $350,000 in insurance, but Douglas, with...
...years. Then he was injured in a fall at the yard, and when Bolero was launched in 1949, he told his wife he expected it would be his last launching. In the last months of his life, he often asked to be carried out to the cockpit of his own yacht Polly, just to feel the swell of the sea again...
Says Heinemann: "We analyzed psychologically and physiologically just how a man reacts under combat stress, just how much he can really attend to . . . If he's going to skip some things, there's simply no use putting them in the cockpit to confuse him further." The cockpit of the A4D is as simple and uncluttered as a fledgling pilot's first trainer, though Heinemann shies away from the words "stripped down." The necessary equipment, he says, is all there, but more compact. The Hot-Rod's air-conditioning unit weighs only a third of those...