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May 3rd 04, 12:50 AM
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Years ago a story went around about a Navy pilot that forgot to unfold
his wings and took of (maybe at Pensacola???) He got airborne and flew a closed pattern and landed with no damage to airplane or himself Big John ` I read that this happened in Vietnam, the plane an A-1 Skyraider. I heard that it was an AD-1, long before Viet Nam and before its designation was changed to A-1. The gives some idea of the time period. I may even have heard the story while I was still in the Marines, which would place it prior to July 1954. Sorry, I have no other details. The AD's wings folded fairly far from the fuselage, so there was a considerable amount of wing "unfolded." vince norris 
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