Theorem: There are no accidents and no fatal flaws in the machines; there are only pilots with the wrong stuff. Corollary: no single factor ever killed a pilot; there was always a chain of mistakes.
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“A Navy pilot (in legend, at any rate) began shouting, “I’ve got a MiG at zero! A MiG at zero! - meaning that it has maneuvered I’m behind him and was locked in on his tail. An irritated voice cut in and said, “Shut up and die like an aviator.”” Pretty brutal stuff.
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Most of “it” was unspoken as far as I can tell in the book so far. An unspoken “right stuff” that made you one of the greats, an Ace, that showed you had what it took to strap yourself to a death rocket and make it through in one piece.
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This is surprising to me because I would have thought a dogfight was like wrestling in which mistake can lead to loss.
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I think there was a difference between practice dog fights and actual dog fights but still, as long as you stayed alive and went back up you still sortof had “the right stuff”. I’m only on the first couple of chapters. Great book and theme so far though.
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