A (Falling) Object Lesson Report #1 Some flight experiences are impossible to simulate, as the world's most successful instructor discovered years ago.

THE YEAR WAS 1940, A TIME when the world was still enthralled with airplanes and the people who flew them. Legendary airmen like Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh and Roscoe Turner were celebrities, like rock stars today. Although only 23 years old at the time, I was working as chief pilot for...

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