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Last week the Bell Airacobra (P-39), already in production, was ready for its final test dive. For four days Test Pilot Andrew McDonough, on a busman's holiday from Eastern Airlines' Miami-Chicago run, had had her aloft feeling her out, making longer and faster dives as pilot and ship got acquainted. Swaddled in a leather flying suit, stringy, 29-year-old Andy McDonough crawled into the cabin for the last trip, secured his capsule microphone alongside his Adam's apple, quickly checked over his instruments. Across the Buffalo Airport and into the air sped...
...feet Andy McDonough put on his oxygen mask, circled to the northeast, making a mental note to stay away from the field so that he wouldn't "mess up the airport" if the dive wasn't a success. At 27,000 feet he was 15 miles northeast of the field. The outside thermometer registered 33 below. To the northwest, 25 miles away, he could see Niagara Falls. He called the ground: "... will dive from west to east." Then he turned on the fixed movie camera, focussed on the faces of his instruments-altimeter, clock, airspeed indicator, thermometer...
Nose-down went the P-39, trailing a white exhaust plume. Her prop, turning just fast enough to keep her Allison engine warm, began to windmill. The airspeed indicator hand began to turn-350 -400. But Andy McDonough kept his eye fixed mostly on the hands of the sensitive altimeter. Around 5,000 he eased the ship out into level flight, called the field again: "Dive completed . . . returning to base." When he landed, a doctor checked him over. Nothing wrong. Mechanics checked the Airacobra for skin wrinkles, other evidences of strain. All O.K. Andy McDonough was on his way back...
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