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On 2014-04-18 04:27:32 +0000, patricia@school.study said:
> It is hard for me to think of how much courage it would have taken to climb
> into one of these, and attempt to fly it. Just think of what could happen
> if the nose skid caught on something during take off or landing.
Now think of the pioneering long distance flights made in the Vimy.
There was Alcock & Brown's 1919 trans-Atlantic crossing, then there
were the flights from the UK to Australia and South Africa.
All of those men were made from "The right stuff".
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Savageduck
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