Charles Lindbergh <spirit@stlouis.invalid> wrote in
news:c31v4b9ge1u5aenh11nmgno30lmh99vqac@4ax.com:
> On a particularly hot day, a Royal Australian Air Force English
> Electric A84 Canberra bomber drops to within 25 feet as thrill-seeking
> mechanics get ready for the visceral experience of 13,000 lbs of Rolls
> Royce Avon power full in the face. RAAF Photo
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> They loved to fly low in World War Two
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There are Old Pilots, and ther are Bold pilots
but, there are no Old Bold Pilots
P-38/F-5 44-24559 that crashed into the deck of USS Randolph .
7 June 1945
11 dead 14 injured 11 navy planes W/O 7 F6F , 4 TBM
5 20mm guns and one gun director destroyed
The Flat-hatting P-38/F-5 pilot not recovered
(ADM Nimitz GrayBook )
P-38 CFIT buzzing his airfield in England, once came back to do it
again W/O
(IMPACT magazine Oct 1943)
P-47 42-7956 CFIT into house, England W/O
(Impact magazine Dec 1943)
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