Charles K. Scott wrote:
On 10 Nov 2005 12:19:22 -0800, "Bret Ludwig"
wrote:

The average person who
should be flying at all, can be trained to fly a T-6-most military
cadet pupils had no special aptitude, for every Yeager or Hoover there
were thousands with average or slightly below aptitude and if they paid
attention, and didn't let fear or other baggage get in their way, they
graduated.

True, kinda. But for every cadet who graduated, there were two or
three who entered flight training but washed out for one reason or
another and were placed in bombardier school or became navigators.
Then there were those lost through crashes for one reason or another.

Some of those guys, who survived the war as bombardiers and
navigators, went on to become civilian pilots. During the war the
military was in a rush and it didn't really matter that they washed
out so many because there were dozens lining up behind those culled
from pilots school eager to take over.

During the last full year of war, training was scaled back
dramatically because there were so many pilots already trained.

Yeager, according to his biography, got very airsick during many of
his training flights. He must have really wanted to earn his wings to
continue through that.

I think he did. I only puked once in my life in an airplane and it was
in the back of a V-tail Bonanza, sashaying as usual like a drag queen
in a Gay Pride parade in mild turbulence.

The Bonanzaphiles are people that so often have never rode in the back
of them. I used to see these dorks on Harry St. at their Bonanza
Bordello.

Q. What's the last thing that goes through the mind of an
(obstetrician, TV preacher, tax lawyer, insert favorite Bonanza owner
here)?

A. The accessory section of a TSIO Continental, of course.