On 30 Dec 2016 13:58:45 -0800, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
wrote:
>In article <XnsA6EE953E2A0AAjohnszalayattnet@216.166.97.131>, john Szalay
>says...
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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.
>>>
>>> Short, like me, he said he needed cushions behind his back while
>>> seated in the pilots seat to allow him to reach the pedals!
>>>
>>> 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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>There's nothing more disheartening that trying to give full right (or left)
>pedal and realizing your legs are just a few inches too short to give you what
>you need!
My dad "drove C-47s for the Army" in the latter days of the war in
Europe. He used to tell the story of rescuing an abandoned puppy from
a recently liberated airfield, and how difficult it was to fly a C-47
with a terrorized critter cowering behind the rudder pedals.
Fortunately, all arrived back in England in one piece.
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