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...warplane has never fallen into Iraqi hands because of a mechanical snafu. There's only one acknowledged instance in which a U.S. warplane lost power over Iraq and had to limp to safety. It happened on Nov. 10, 1997, when an oil line broke on Captain Erik Pettyjohn's F-16 while he was 30 miles inside northern Iraq. "I had visions of being a guest of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad," Pettyjohn told TIME last week. He saw himself being paraded through the Iraqi capital in manacles while his family watched the scene on TV. "The adrenaline kicked in when...
...Pettyjohn did. He gently turned the plane north and slowly began climbing. He hit the red panic button near his left knee, jettisoning his two missiles and external fuel tanks to reduce drag and let his plane fly more easily. It was nearly seven minutes before Pettyjohn finally cleared the mountains that mark the border. In Turkey he glided to an unpowered landing, then rolled to a stop with 1,000 ft. to spare...
Robert C. Pettyjohn...
Kyra Goritzina quotes Thackeray: "Lucky is the man whose servant speaks well of him." In Service Entrance she speaks well of only two of the nine households in which she and Sergei worked. Mr. Pettyjohn (she names no real names), a socialite banker, was agreeable despite the fact that he tested his servants by scattering cigar ashes in out-of-the-way spots. Mrs. Lowell was kind, looked after the Goritzins in illness, raised their wages to $200 a month, reluctantly let them go when she moved into a house that was too big for them to manage. The rest...
...Crapo, J. W. Prentiss, R. Stone, John Flint, F. Goodridge, J. Valentine, F. Hall, J. Knox, H. Block, P. Rust, E. Edwards, P. Gierasch, R. Pierson, H. Barustin, J. Swain, J. Buntley, A. Bull, F. Hardenbrook, H. Blanchard, E. Stowell, P. Dove, D. Fales, V. Smith, H. Herman, G. Pettyjohn, J. Furness...
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