Fluid Technique

Flying the lonely reaches of the Aleutians, U.S. airmen often have to do some fast, original thinking to get home intact:

P: Returning from Paramushiro, the pilot of a twin-engined Navy Ventura bomber found that flak had holed the hydraulic-pressure system; there was not enough fluid left to lower the landing flaps. A machinist's mate used the crew's hoard of orange juice and coffee to refill the hydraulic reservoir. It worked.

P: Another Navy pilot, storm-tossed in a light observation ship, ran low on gas and set down at a small island where the only fuel on hand was cooking kerosene. Glumly the pilot tanked up, ran his snorting, protesting engine for 30 minutes to warm up, then staggered off into the air, his exhaust stack belching flame and smoke. The home base heard him coming from afar, "like a model-T Ford climbing a hill in reverse." But he wobbled to a safe landing.

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