Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Tibbets on June 28, 2000, 06:40:00 PM
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Came across this in a book today......
"......Engines failed at a discouraging rate. Between 1918 and 1925, mechanical failures caused U.S. airmail planes to make some 1,600 emergency landings. After one pilot had to put his plane down in a crowded cow pasture, his headqaurters in Washington received this cheerless telegram:"Engine quit.Only place to land on cow. Killed cow. Wrecked plane. Scared me. Smith" (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)