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More than 13,000 were killed in WWII flight training, including in B-24 bomber crash in Chicago
On May 20, 1943, a B-24 bomber of the 1014th Pilot Transition Training Squadron took off from an Army airfield in Texas and headed to Chicago. It was a miserable day for flying, let alone teaching student pilots. (www.chicagotribune.com) और अधिक...
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Three separate advertisements blocking access to the article. It might have been interesting to read.
Posting articles with strict paywalls is just a waste of our time. Almost as if someone is just pointing to this article to improve revenue to the sorry Tribune site. Pay for what I can google... no way.
You just figure this out? Wow where have you been? In Britten they were putting young men into Spitfires with less than 50hrs total flight time. The AC our pilots were training for were far from easy to fly. B24 AC with one engine out on approach was a one way deal go arounds killed many. That was just one type think of the famed P51 few two seat trainers of that type existed. Check out before flying one usually was if they could fly the T6 from the rear seet then next step was a single seat P51
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