Thursday, June 28, 1945
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MY CO-PILOT GOES BATTY
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TTftfEN I returned to duty at
Dinjan two new boys were
assigned to my plane, a co-pilot
named Huns and a radio operator
named LI. They were smart boys,
both of them, but on our third
trip together I had one of the
worst experiences of my Hying
career with Hung.
We wore coming back from
Kunming with a loud of tin and
the overcast was soup-thick all
the way up to 24,000 feet. The
plane I was given was an ex
perimental model with special su
perchurged engines, designed to
permit greater altitude than the
JJC-a s and C-47's whose celling
was 24,500 feet.
At 25,000 feet we came out
above the overcast. The tempera
ture at that altitude was far be
low zero. The heater In the plane
vnrn't working very well, and an
r.ddcd disadvantage was that we
hod been using our oxygen al
most constantly since lenving
Kunming four hours before.
We were over the most dan
gerous part of tho hills, about an
hour out of Dinjnn, with known
peaks rising as high as 24,000
fcit, when this boy Hung sud
denly hollered, "Uoohow! Boo
how!" In Chinese that mennt "No
good!" I jerked around to see
what vas wrong. Hung imme
diately grabbed the controls and
shot th plane down in a steep
dive Into the overcast. With a
load of tin you just don't do
things like that for fear of shift
ing tho cargo, and anyway I
couldn't see anything wrong. I
reached out, knocking his hands
from the controls, righted the
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ship and started to climb up
again,
EVERYTHING, was all right for
about five minutes. Twice I
asked Hung what the hell he was
trying to do, but he didn't answer.
Ho continued to stare directly
ahead and kept his hands clenched
in his lap. The overcast was
climbing higher by then, we were
going right into it, and I was
busy with the instruments, chock
ing our position ugainst the
known peaks in tho vicinity. And
when you re under oxygen for a
long stretch you doublecheck
those things because it's easy to
get careless woozy the stuff Is
so much like a drug.
Without warning this time
Hung grabbed the controls again.
He really had a death grip on
them, and he was heading us
straight down Into almost certain
death. I had no alternative. I
reached over, pulled olf his oxy
gen mask with my right hand,
loosened my safety belt and came
around in a roundhouse with my
left, catching him suuarcly on the
jaw. His head bobbed over on
his shoulder, his hands relaxed
on the controls, and I pulled out
of the dive. I don't know how
close we came to disaster because
I conldn t see a hundred feet
ahead of me. According to my
charts wo should have hit a 23,
000 foot peak at that point, and
m sure we must have missed
t by only a few seconds. In any
event, 1 replaced the oxygen mask
on i lung's limp face and wo got
buck to 2U.U20 feet and made the
crossing without further trouble.
We were down to about 7000
feet and within sight of Dinjan
when Hung slowly roused him
self and began to feel his chin.
What the hell happened to
you.'" I demanded. I still felt
I hndn t settled my score with
him.
Hung looked at me, startled.
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In Brief
Manuel T. Larue and Albert
Shui p, both of I-a Grande, were
arrested last night on charges of
assault and battery. They were
taken to municipal court, where
they were fined $'Jf) each.
Harry McCarthy has returned
from a 10-day business trip to
Portland and Seattle.
Hick Until ing who is mnjoring
in iiLTountini' :it th: University
of Oregon, is hom j for the summer
vacation and is working at the
Hunting traelor company.
Dob Kopp, who this spring
completed his second year at the
University of Oregon, Kugene, is
here for the summer and is em
ployed in the Umatilla national
forest.
Kopp is majoring in geology at
the university.
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notning, captain,'" he said. "I
I'm all right."
"What was our highest alti
tude?" I asked hlrn.
"Eighteen thousano, sir," he re
plied instantly.
"You don't remember going
above 18,000?" I asked.
"No, sir. We haven't been
above 18,000," Hung said.
"What are you rubbing your
jaw for?"
"It's sore. I must have bumped
It. I don't remember. I don't
know when , . ."
TTUNG was too good a boy to
do what he had done unless
he was out of his head, and by
the time we landed I could make
a pretty good guess as to the
cause of his conduct. To some
extent it was typical of the Chi
nese, even the smart ones like
Hung. Little details irk them;
they aren't naturally scientific iu
their thinking or in their con.
duct; and If they can't see the
immediate value of a procedurn
or a policy they are likely to
figure it is unimportant. That
may not be true of all Chinese,
but it Is definitely true of the
ones I have known. It was true
of Hung.
"Let's see your mask." I said to
him as soon as we stepped out
of the plane at Dinjan.
He handed it to me and I tilted
it. A good half-ounce of water
ran out into my hand. I shook
the water from my palm and
handed the mask back to him.
If that ever happens again,
Hung," I said, "I'm going to re
port you."
The most dangerous mistake a
person can make who is depend
ent on an oxygen mask is to let
the condensed moisture from his
breath remain in the mask after
using it. The orders are specifla
n that regard: you drain your
mask and dry it every time you
use it. Hung had failed to do so.
and In the intense cold above
18,000 feet a little clot of Ice had
formed in the tube, almost com
pletely blocking off his oxygen
supply. Most people would have
fuintcd undor such circumstances;
Hung had gmic batty instead,
(To lie Conuuuuu)
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