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Phantom Crew. The cramped cockpit of the X-3 has no room for anyone except Bill Bridgeman, but the tense men watching the oscilloscopes can perform all the duties of a well-trained crew. They bend electronically over Bridgeman's shoulders, watch banks of instruments that he would have no time to glance at. They warn him when some unfelt danger is still small, but growing...
...catch up, Baker pushed on his throttle, forced his Sabre jet through the sound barrier. From a distance of 800.ft., he fired a long burst of his guns. The MIG started coming apart. The cockpit canopy flew off to the left, and the pilot narrowly missed Baker's plane as his ejection seat dumped him to the right. The MIG, trailing flame, crashed ten miles south of the Yalu...
...just taken off when Ang quietly slipped into the pilots' cabin. The two pilots, thinking that a passenger had come in for a view of the cockpit, glanced behind them-and looked straight into the barrel of Ang's .45 Colt. Ang thrust a typewritten note at them: "Do not be alarmed. I am a desperate man. This is a stickup. Do not talk to each other." He ordered them to set a course for Amoy, some 500 miles away. Pilot Captain Pedro Perlas protested that the plane did not have enough fuel. Suddenly he threw the wheel...
...cannot be reached from the ground; rudders present so much surface to a cross wind, moreover, that pilots often find it necessary to keep them locked while taxiing. release them just before a takeoff. Most big planes, as a result, now have built-in locking systems operated from the cockpit...
...Nine is too uneven. high MIG, but it disappeared in a haze. The wingman tangled with the diving MIG, which had a resourceful pilot in the cockpit. When the wingman had tired himself out trying to get a shot, Low took over, and the Red pilot almost tired Low out, trying to scrape him off against a high ridge, then trying to blind him in the sun. At last Low got the enemy in his sights, poured .50-caliber slugs into the engine and tail section, saw the MIG's canopy fly off. But the American needed...