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Pilots circulated rumors: "The Hudson is full of green dragons." Reported Colonel Duckworth: "The idea got around that if one motor went out, you were about gone. The boys were letting the airplane fly them-they were not flying the airplane." Stalls, followed by crashes, resulted when green instructors and students climbed too rapidly after the takeoff...
...first offer was some tooling that could be done only on a new $4,000 machine. The twins, who had never even seen $4,000, made their own machine-out of a junked lathe, an old washing-machine motor, an oil pump from a 1926 automobile and one of Ma's old washtubs to catch the oil that leaked...
...Also a wood plane is the graceful (6,200-Ib.) Russian fighter T-18, or MIG-3, which has plywood in wings and tail as well as fuselage. A single 12-cylinder, liquid-cooled, 1,200-h.p. motor gives it a top speed of 360 m.p.h. at 13,000 ft. Its armament is reportedly very light-two 7.6-mm. machine guns, one 12.7-mm. machine...
Some ten yards from the bank the left tread of the rear tank climbed out of the treadway. The tank teetered for a fraction of a second, then the pontoons shifted. With treads still grinding and motor roaring, the tank plunged off the submerging treadway into the river, sank in a swirl of bubbling water. Almost on top of it plunged the tank ahead, down into the river out of sight...
...that boat and made for a motor gunboat. Mac pulled me aboard, that's Sergeant Major McEvoy, a grand guy. He told me my eye was gone and he bandaged my forehead. We got orders to transfer to a destroyer and Mac practically carried me up those ropes. I was pretty weak. He put me in the sick bay and said: "You'll be all right now, Joe." Then we got dive-bombed and a big hole was blown in the sick bay. The blast blew everyone around and I just about passed out. Mac got blown...