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Theoretically, the G suit makes it possible for a pilot to tolerate as much as two Gs more than human nature in the raw. In practice, however, any flyer tenses his belly muscles when he is going into a tight turn, and this tends to dam the blood stream. Some authorities question whether it really gives any more protection than good muscle tone, properly used. The Navy's Captain Charles F. Gell believes that the answer to G forces is not a suit but a reclining seat. At the Johnsville (Pa.) Air Development Center, he has experimented with tilt...
Only two non-flying science majors were retained with but one single other non-flyer. This compares with three science concentrators and four other non-flyers in the class...
...married another man of her father's choice, popular Joseph W. Brooks, flyer, All-America football player (Colgate, 1909-11) and a captain in World War I's famed Rainbow Division. The marriage lasted only eight years, possibly, friends say, because even in its happiest days Alicia was still closer to her father than to her husband. Wherever he went-to visit Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, to roam New York's subways or to inspect the drought areas of the Southwest-she went along. Childless, and with little to occupy her but New York...
Reach for the Sky is the unique story of how Airman Bader rose to heroic heights. Author Paul Brickhill, a wartime R.A.F. flyer himself, tells Bader's story without slushing about in sentimentality. He combines hard, muscular prose with a dignified simplicity that will bring tears to the eyes and laughter to the lips of many a reader...
...when war began, not even the King's Regulations could hold him back. He got back into the R.A.F. as a fighter pilot, eventually led five squadrons of more than 60 planes, and became "the R.A.F.'s first wing leader." He was a swashbuckling, pugnacious, fearless flyer who would fly ten sweeps in seven days, then stomp about on the ground, hungering to get into the air again. He was one of the few to whom so many owed so much through the Battle of Britain, and even among those few, he stood out. Only two men before...