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Catalog Number:
1978.021
Location:
4E938
Description:
Rose Bowl, California, 1929. Fokker C-2 Showed World What Air To Air Fueling Was All About. In Transit Fuel Line Became Uncoupled, Then Major Carl Spaatz With High Octane Gas. Ordering The Plane To Head For The Ocean, General Spaatz , Only In His Parachute. Scrubbing Himself Down In Lubricating Oil, Commanded That The Mission Continue ...Even If I Have To Parachute Into The Pacific In The Nude. The Flight Continued For An Historical Six And A Quarter Days.