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 In article <XnsA6EE953E2A0AAjohnszalayattnet@216.166.97.131>, john Szalay
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 >Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
 >news:o46c9g0m6t@drn.newsguy.com:
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 >> In article <67mb6cpk3t8djdoup0cflr9msktu90rqnq@4ax.com>, joet5 says...
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 >> My father, whom they discovered had a heart condition right after he
 >> completed flight school and kept in anyway, wound up being a flight
 >> instructor for B-24 during WWII.
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 >> Short, like me, he said he needed cushions behind his back while
 >> seated in the pilots seat to allow him to reach the pedals!
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 >> He said he was a "two cushion man"...apparently lots of other short
 >> B-24 pilots needed seat cushions as well.
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 >Mike Nonosel MOH   was a two cushion man in B-24s
 >later a B-29 Commander , in Viet-nam, he flew Dust-off.
 >Note the cushions at his feet.
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 I can still remember one of my fellow student pilots...Lt Baird...used to show
 up at the flight line with a green cushion.
 
 He eventually picked up the nickname "cusch" because of it.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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