Word: wingmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belligerently. With two flying sergeants, he barnstormed the land in three precisely flown P12 pursuit planes - the famed "Three Men on a Flying Trapeze" of the air shows. What he wanted to prove was that precise and darting aggression spelled air power, but nobody cared. And when his noncommissioned wingmen flunked their tests for commissions, his gorge rose hot as a Louisiana pepper, and he resigned his own commission, saying: "I'm glad to get out. They're still running on the old 1917 ideas...
...first few times the option was tried Finney succeeded in getting around the Crimson ends before being forced to lateral off to one of his halfbacks. Later in the game, the varsity's wingmen began to stay wide, so he adjusted his tactics and cut back to the inside. Either way the ends were maneuvered out of the play; and the tackle had to be made by a defensive back, well past the line of scrimmage...
...sits and thinks and thereby saves lives and deters wars. Once Arthur Radford was one of the hottest pilots in the Navy, leading an aerial stunt team called the High. Hatters, even standing in as stuntman for Clark Gable in the epic Hell Divers. But one of his wingmen of those days now prefers to dwell upon the solid and undramatic way that Radford led his men on the routine patrols. "Raddy had it even then, as a lieutenant commander," the wingman says. "You could see he thought bigger than his immediate job, no matter what...
...instrument approach. Hodge, leading a flight of four F-84s of the Georgia National Guard's crack stunt-flying team on a night-training flight from Miami, said he was starting down through the fog and rain. A moment later, the tower overheard one of Hodge's wingmen say: "I don't like this at all." Another pilot in the formation answered: "How do you suppose I feel...
Captain Bob Marsolais led the Yardlings in their first triumph over collegiate opposition with two goals and a pair of assists. Wingmen Frank Mahoney, Ned Bliss, and Pat Pratt and defenseman Ed Mrkonich each netted the disk once...