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> Pioneers don't always get the best land. Some of them end up in ditches
> with arrows in their back.
In his autobiography, former WWI fighter ace Eddie Rickenbacker, then CEO of
Eastern Airlines, said when he took a test ride in one of the early Comets,
he noticed that the fuselage was visibly expanding and contracting.
Unnerved, he said he'd seen enough. The decompression crashes began soon
after.
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