"Corky Scott" wrote in message
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On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:03:52 GMT, "Mike Rapoport"
wrote:


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I have a video at home about the B-26. In it a veteran instructor was
interviewed and he spoke of being sent to Tampa to investigate the
very high accident rate. He arrived, spoke with the commanding
officer and requested their very best B-26 pilot trainee. They took
off and climbed to 8,000 feet (I think, could have been 12,000) where
the instructor told the pilot to configure the bomber as if he were
taking off. So the pilot slowed down, dropped flaps and gear, pitched
up and advanced power to takeoff settings. At that point the
instructor told the pilot he was going to chop power to one of the
engines, and told him which engine it would be. Then he cut the
power.


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Corky,

IIRC, the "instructor" they sent down was Jimmie Doolittle, was it not?

Jay B