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...that single encounter, reports Knoke, the U.S.A.F. lost eleven bombers, the Germans only one. Knoke chalked up his 13th combat kill, and his mechanics carried him shoulder-high from his cockpit. The bombing technique delighted his superiors. His colonel, he wrote, "bleats away happily ... I hope his monocle will not fall into his cup of cocoa in the excitement...
...that is nothing to fear if at the same time Europe is made more peaceful . . . My plea is, therefore, that we explore this matter, not in any sense as representing opposing sides, but as a group of countries which . . . seek a single goal-the transforming of Europe from a cockpit of war to a home of abiding peace...
...serious problem in designing military aircraft is providing some means for the pilot to escape. Every year the problem becomes more difficult. Even at present speeds (600-plus m.p.h.) and altitudes (50,000-plus ft.), a simple parachute is no good. The pilot must be shot from his cockpit to clear the tail. He is buffeted by the air, and during his long fall before the chute can be opened (automatically at 18,000 ft.), he needs protection against both cold and lack of oxygen...
...girls found in him an untarnished symbol of its better self. No Antoine de Saint Exupery, no philosopher of flight, Lindbergh rarely rises to poetic altitudes and sometimes drones on in childhood reveries and me chanical details. But at its exciting best, his book keeps the reader cockpit-close to a rare adventure...
...mind. Can The Spirit of St. Louis carry the needed 450 gallons of gas weighing 2,700 Ibs.? He has never tested it with more than 300 gallons, for fear a tire would blow out on landing. Can he fly with the big gas tank in front of the cockpit, and no visibility ahead except for a makeshift periscope? Can he navigate a whole ocean with simple compasses? Even Nungesser and Coli have been lost over the Atlantic. Why should he succeed...