In the winter of 1934, the U.S. Army Air Corps was given the responsibility of delivering the U.S. Mail by President Franklin Roosevelt. These combat-ready airmen were dying in what seemed to be an endless series of fatal crashes. The common theory of flight at the time, suggested pilots were born with the gift of flight. They would take a student up in a plane and execute a series of loops and rolls and if the student didn’t get air sick, he was considered qualified to become a pilot. He went through ground school and eventually put in a […]
