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Then he looked down at the prop controls, synchronized the engines, and looked up again. In the few seconds that he had glanced away from the light, it had moved to the right so that it was now directly ahead of the DC-4, and it had increased in size. The copilot reached over and slapped the pilot on the shoulder and pointed.
They and their two shipmates flew back to the mainland with Tom and Arv for a celebration dinner in town. The next morning found the young inventor hard at work in his private laboratory. He was tapping his head with his slide rule and frowning at a blackboard scrawled with equations when Bud dropped in for a visit. "What now, inventor boy?" his copilot asked.
He stood looking at Tom, arms folded and feet wide apart. "Well, let's go, pal!" Tom urged impatiently, puzzled by Bud's lack of response. "What about the square dance?" Tom stopped short, feeling like a punctured balloon. He stared in dismay at his smiling, dark-haired copilot. "Good night! I forgot again!" With a sigh, Tom added, "You're right, of course. We sure can't let the girls down twice.
About this time the copilot decided that the UFO was a balloon; it just looked as if the UFO was turning. The pilot agreed halfway and since the company wasn't paying them to intercept balloons, they got back on their course to Kansas City. They flew on for a few more minutes with "the darn thing" still off to their left.
"Sure, an' you did a good job of it gettin' in," O'Malley praised. "When I couldn't talk to the crew I turned the controls over to the copilot and went aft. I got to the top turret man and told him to get the gunners together in the radio compartment. I figured we'd smack right down into the channel." Allison fingered his pipe and stared into the fire.
"I went back to the copilot and we fought her head. She sagged in over the coast and came right on home, smoking like a torch. As we came in, we found we had a belly landing on our hands, so we skidded her in. Poor Old Sal is a mess right now." "Anybody hurt?" Stan asked. "Bombardier got a piece of flak in his leg. The tail gunner had his greenhouse blown into his face and is in the hospital.
We picked up a shell which went off inside our outboard engine. It started rolling smoke but no flames. Then a shell smashed the intercom system and communications went dead." Allison bit down hard on his pipe. "Must have been tough," Stan said. "We couldn't hold our altitude. We lost about a thousand feet a minute and nothing the copilot and I could do would hold her up."
If I recall correctly, this pilot was flying for TWA. One day in March 1952 he, his copilot, and a third person who was either a pilot deadheading home or another crew member, I don't recall which, were flying a C-54 cargo airplane from Chicago to Kansas City. At about 2:30P.M. the pilot was checking in with the CAA radio at Kirksville, Missouri, flying 500 feet on top of a solid overcast.
Both the pilot and copilot wanted to stay around and look for it but No. 2 engine had started to act up soon after they had put on full power for the climb, and they decided that they'd better get into Kansas City. I missed my Dayton flight but I heard a good UFO story. What had the two pilots and their passenger seen? We kicked it around plenty that afternoon. It was no balloon.
In a split second it closed in and flashed by their right wing so close that both pilots thought that they would collide with it. When it passed the DC-3, the pilots saw more than a light they saw a huge object that looked like the "fuselage of a B-29." When the copilot had recovered he looked out his side window to see if he could see the UFO and there it was, flying formation with them.
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