Word: immelmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest adventure began with the sudden conviction that he could fly.* For a while he just practiced Immelmann turns around the dining-room chandelier, in his nightshirt, but before he was done he had created an international situation, and he promised Mully never to fly again...
...field leaving behind them a sound like the ripping of a canvas tent. They did vertical slow rolls, snapped null over on their backs and back again to demonstrate fighting maneuverability. While their workmen-builders shouted applause they sent their speedsters straight up thousands of feet, looped, did soaring Immelmann turns, flew on their backs...
...prowess as a cricketer at his old school, Winchester; as a marksman and fisherman. He was described as an authority on nature's counterpart of the R. A. F.-falconry. Britons were reminded that in World War I he nicked the plane of the great German Ace Immelmann with a rifle; that in 1917 he went out five times a night to bomb and once engaged no less than five enemy planes at a time. He was, in short, a very dragon-killer...