John-John had broken his leg/ankle only a few weeks earlier, had just switched from a large cast.
I’m guessing the wife and sister-in-law had no clue a pilot also steers with his feet.
Would they have gotten in the plane with him otherwise?
18 posted on 04/17/2012 12:23:38 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)