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...suggested that in the future when pilots feel overwhelming desire to let loose their exuberance of spirit that they immediately land their airplanes in normal manner, taxi slowly to specified parking position, stop engine, climb out of cockpit and take cold bath...
...have time to watch the plane crash.) Captain Hill was 23, from Hillsdale, NJ. He had been a high-school athlete, had worked as a plumber's helper. Now his picture showed him at a British airport after the battle (see cut), grinning toothily from his cockpit like a youngster tickled about his first solo...
...flying upside down and attempting to get on top. Cocky pulled up and poured three or four bursts into the Jap, whose plane began spitting blue flame. The planes whizzed by each other 150 feet apart and Cocky caught a glimpse of the Jap pilot climbing out of the cockpit. Both planes went into a spin. Cocky pulled out of his, but the Zero crashed into a hilltop and burst into a huge spout of flame...
They had to learn to rely, under bad instrument-flying conditions, on the primary aids of their dim-lit cockpit panel: the indicators for turn, bank and rate of climb, and the air-speed dial. But until they got into conditions so bad that the birds themselves walked, they could not learn to use those aids properly. That took time...
Aikman followed him as he turned out over the sea', trying to get as near England as possible with his failing engine. Aikman could see him quite clearly in the cockpit. He opened his sliding hood and took off his helmet. It appeared to Aikman that he was also releasing his parachute harness. Aikman called through his radio that he was going to climb so that he would be able to fix Finucane's position when he crashed. Paddy replied: "Get as high as possible...