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...Lights of Danger. After hitting Tokyo, we kept down the east coast of Japan, hoping to get through to the China coast. The change of plans in the early take-off had altered the nice calculations we had made and we were afraid of running short of gas. We flew low over the water. Sometimes Japanese patrol planes off the coast would pass high overhead without noticing...
Smoother and sleeker than its prototype, the new Corsair is made distinctive by its inverted gull wing, which makes possible a short, light, retractable landing gear and still leaves room for the big three-bladed propeller to clear the ground on take-off runs...
...when he was a first lieutenant in the Regular Army, he wrecked a DH4 on a night take-off for a transcontinental flight from Jacksonville to San Diego-a major project then. Fellow officers found him hanging from a strut, weeping. Did the engine quit? No. Did the undercarriage wash out? No. Structural failure? No. Well, what happened? "Damn poor piloting," said Jimmy Doolittle...
...Angeles tall, blond Army Pilot Lieut. William N. Wilson, 25, met his old friend Airliner Co-Pilot Louis F. Reppert Jr. "It was agreed," said the report of a Congressional investigating committee, "that Lieut. Wilson would attempt to time his take-off [next day] from Long Beach to conform with the time of the airliner at Burbank so that they could meet some place in the vicinity of San Gorgonio Pass." The plan clicked; at the rendezvous Lieut. Wilson waggled his plane's wings in greeting. He passed in front of the airliner...
Sept. 12-Bomber take-off successful. Delivered same at Army base...