Posted on 02/28/2014 10:54:30 AM PST by EveningStar
Bfl
Back in my AF days I read the entire aviation section of the base library. some of the best were the, "no $#@t there I was..." stories.
The best of those was a B36 flying out of Colorado. It had received a bad load of fuel and suffered a 10 engine flame-out. The guy in front brought it in deadstick.
Some feat. I would imagine that a B-36 without power would have the aerodynamic characteristics of a crowbar.
Did anyone mention “The First of the Few”? It was about the Spitfire. Produced, directed and acted in by Leslie Howard. His passionate contribution to the war effort. He was killed because of it by the Nazis, so his ode to the Spitfire was the last film of the great British actor.
Also, no one mentioned “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”.... great sequences training the pilots to take off fast and low on land and then footage of their actual takeoff on the aircraft carrier that sent them on that fateful mission. Eerie footage of the raid over Tokyo, too.
"We moved our base camp last night and we’re now positioned literally
within feet of the river. Have been sitting here watching the border
patrol patrolling in their riverboats all night and all morning..."~Jim Robinson
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