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...Japanese suicide planes crash-dived the destroyer off Okinawa. A bomb jammed the rudder, and the ship heeled in a sitting-duck circle. Flaming gasoline billowed over the decks, burning gunners strapped to their seats. Said Commander Frederick J. Becton: "I'll never abandon ship as long as a gun will fire...
...same shaft), the jet en gine needs little oil. The plane needs no warmup, is ready to fly 30 seconds after the motor starts. The pilot, relieved of worries about oil pressure, fuel mixture, propeller pitch, etc., has only three controls to operate: the stick, the throttle and rudder pedals. Test pilots have found the P-59 more maneuverable in the air than a conventional plane. Taxiing on the ground is tricky. Because there is no propeller to blow wind against the tail and rudder control surfaces for steering, pilots steer with the wheel brakes...
...Gyroscopic Autopilot is the basic instrument for all automatic flying. This is a contraption with two gyroscopes, one spinning on a vertical axis (controlling the plane's tilt), the other horizontally (controlling direction). They are connected, electrically or by air locks, with the plane's controls (rudder, ailerons and elevators). When the plane pitches, banks or makes the slightest deviation from a set course, the gyroscopes make instant corrections in the controls to put it back on course. The gyropilot acts much more quickly and holds a course more steadily than a human pilot...
Cockpit to Prison. His left leg was broken and punctured by an ack-ack burst. His back was terribly burned by raw gasoline. The foot of his injured leg was pinned rigidly under the rudder...
...rudder and elevators sometimes lock tight, sometimes flap violently, as if buffeted by Niagaran rapids...