In article <r80alddr7280m7gpn11j5ufgie0plfuhtm@4ax.com>, Stormin' Norman says...
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>On 22 Jul 2018 15:00:53 -0700, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
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>>In article <gkq9ldd6q16c5n12ksfss5et7iu3dc08jm@4ax.com>, Stormin' Norman says...
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>>>On 22 Jul 2018 07:23:42 -0700, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
>>>wrote:
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>>>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqp1LuHjBnY
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>>>A beautiful, clear video, like a window on history.
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>>>I remember reading that flying the Liberator was a sweat drenching
>>>workout, exhausting. Apparently they had very, very heavy controls.
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>>After graduating from flight school, my father came down with rheumatic fever
>>during WWII...as a result, he was deemed unfit to fly combat missions but was
>>kept in as an instructor...flew as a B-24 instructor. Being short (like me) he
>>needed cushions to not just raise him a little but to push him forward a little
>>to fully reach the pedals!!...eventually racked up over 10,000 hours in twenty
>>years before being grounded for having a heart attack (2 1/2 pack/day smoker!!).
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>The flight instructors were unsung heroes of the second war, IMO.
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A lot (most?)of them are instructors against their will...had one helicopter
primary instructor who was so pissed at my performance he actually hit me while
we were flying and I still had my hands on the controls!!
...I'm not exaggerating.
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