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To: bentway who wrote (258902)	7/7/2010 12:21:08 AM
From: Peter V	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

"Learning how to fly the B-24 was the toughest part of the training. It was a difficult airplane to fly, physically, because in the early part of the war, they didn't have hydraulic controls. If you can imagine driving a Mack truck without any power steering or power brakes, that's about what it was like at the controls. It was the biggest bomber we had at the time."[4] Eleanor was constantly afraid of her husband suffering an accident while training, which claimed a huge toll of airmen during the entire war. It was interesting to read this. My Dad crashed a B-24 in WWII training, and never flew again. He had been assigned a new plane to use for his instrument check-out trip, when the tower told him to change planes to a well-used B-24. The English co-pilot was superstitious and told my Dad not to change planes, bad luck, just pretend you didn't hear them. Dad didn't believe in superstitions, and followed orders to change planes. On takeoff, the co-pilot immediately put the landing gear up, upon which two of the engines died. Dad managed to put the plane down without the landing gear, and everyone survived. Unfortunately, due to the hard landing, my Dad had a close encounter between his head and the steering yoke, which almost killed him. He spent a couple months in the hospital. The closest he came to flying again was about 10 years ago, when I took him to a sailplane outfit and had them take him up. He got to take the controls for a bit. I was happy I could do that for him. .