Fear.

This is coolbert:

"Between 1954 [776 in that year] and 1999 [22 in that year] the number of aircraft in the U.S. Navy destroyed in accidents fell by nearly 98-percent, from 776 to 22."

The only thing you have to fear is fear itself??

"In the early jet age, pilots had good reason to fear the F7U"

Further on the American naval jet fighter F7U Cutlass. Consider this a continuation of a prior blog entry. Danger and difficulties as recognized by American combat aviators their anecdotal accounts.

"Conceived in part from swept-wing, tailless research recovered from the German manufacturer Arado after World War II, the Chance Vought F7U Cutlass was a radical departure from not only every other naval aircraft, but just about anything in the air at that time."

F7U RECOGNIZED BY AMERICAN NAVAL AVIATORS AS A PLANE WITH SIGNIFICANT FLAWS AND DANGEROUS TO FLY. DEEMED AS A "WIDOW MAKER".

“'Our job was to test the Cutlass,' . . . 'The company soon became Chancy Vought to us, for in our judgment the Cutlass was an accident looking for a place to happen, a widow maker.'" - - Wally Schirra.

Wally an American astronaut. If Wally said it is so it was so!

Devoted readers will want to read the entire article. I recommend highly without reservation or qualification.

YOU DID SAY YOU WANTED TO FLY AIRPLANES, DIDN'T YOU!! 

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