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Do celu tam się wysiada. Lec Stanisław Jerzy (pierw. de Tusch-Letz, 1909-1966)
A bogowie grają w kości i nie pytają wcale czy chcesz przyłączyć się do gry (. . . ) Bogowie kpią sobie z twojego poukładanego życia (. . . ) nie przejmują się zbytnio ani naszymi planami na przyszłość ani oczekiwaniami. Gdzieś we wszechświecie rzucają kości i przypadkiem wypada twoja kolej. I odtąd zwyciężyć lub przegrać - to tylko kwestia szczęścia. Borys Pasternak
Idąc po kurzych jajach nie podskakuj. Przysłowie szkockie
I Herkules nie poradzi przeciwko wielu.
Dialog półinteligentów równa się monologowi ćwierćinteligenta. Stanisław Jerzy Lec (pierw. de Tusch - Letz, 1909-1966)
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.He was, noted a fellow American pilot, a vision of mil-itary splendor such as one does not see twice in a lifetime. 37 In 1917, Bullard triedunsuccessfully to transfer into the American Air Service along with the white pilots ofthe Escadrille Lafayette, but the United States refused to allow men of color to fly.Bullard was subsequently grounded by the French after clashing with a French officer.He returned to the 170th Infantry Regiment and served in a service unit for the rest ofthe war.After the war, Bullard capitalized on his fame by running a series of success-ful nightclubs in Paris and married a French countess.Relegating airplanes to the Signal Corps, the peacetime army had a limited view oftheir usefulness.Both Congress and Pershing quickly realized that the past two and a halfyears of combat demonstrated the importance of aircraft to gather intelligence, conductreconnaissance, and defend frontlines from strafing attacks by enemy pilots.Congressauthorized a lavish spending bill to spur the manufacture of needed aircraft, whilePershing created an air service within the army.Turning an obsolete force of 300 planeswith fewer than 1,500 officers and men into an effective air corps proved too difficult forboth American companies and the military.Supply problems and faulty designs ham-pered efforts to equip the air service, and the majority of American pilots flew Frenchplanes during the war.Overall, American factories produced 11,754 planes, but only 11American squadrons flew American-produced planes.American-built DeHaviland-4s(DH-4) did not reach the front until the fall of 1918, where pilots quickly dubbed them Flying Coffins. French planes carried gas tanks coated in rubber that expanded to sealminor holes created by sparks or bullets.A single bullet hole in the unprotected gas tankof the DH-4, however, sent gas pouring all over the fuselage as the pressure-fed gassystem continued to pump gas out of the tank.It was often only a matter of momentsbefore a spark or bullet set the gas and plane aflame, created a fiery death for the pilot. Flyers at the front were generally afraid of this plane, the Inspector General s Officeconcluded at the end of the war.38 Establishing a coherent plan for building the air serviceproved equally problematic, and six different commanders cycled through the agency inits first year.By the end of the war, only 45 squadrons (flying a total of 740 planes) hadreached the front out of 190,000 men recruited into the air service.For a man under thirty interested in learning to fly, training often began at a universityauthorized to provide basic ground training.After completing this civilian course, suc-cessful students could enter an army flying school in the United States where they trainedon Curtiss Jennies. Pilot training was a risky endeavor.Of the 677 American pilots whodied during the war, nearly one third or 263 died from accidents in stateside trainingcamps.Since there were no combat planes available in the United States, pilots completedtheir training in France, usually starting over again with French Nieuports.The largest FIGHTING OVERSEAS 147Eddie Rickenbacker became the most celebrated American pilot of the war.(Courtesy of theNational Archives)American flying school overseas was in Issoudun, a village about 65 miles south ofOrleans that began training pilots in October 1918.One recruit summarized the conditionsthat he discovered there as a sea of frozen mud.Waiting in (a) shivering line before dawnfor the spoonsful [sic] of gluey porridge slapped into outstretched mess kits, cold as ice.Wretched flying equipment.Broken necks.The flu.A hell of a place, Issoudun. 39Overseas, pilots first learned to fly solo, then advanced to acrobatics and finally to for-mation flying.Acrobatic training simulated actual battle conditions.After practicing stickhandling on the ground, a student headed to the skies to try the maneuver himself.Sending out novices to try difficult acrobatic moves inevitably led to crashes when thepilot failed to come out of a tail spin
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