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And he couldn’t turn to line up with the carrier. So the ship’s captain decided to take the extraordinary step of turning the carrier to line up with Williams.
It worked. He slammed onto the deck and caught the third and final arresting wire.
On the deck on the carrier, Navy crew counted 263 holes in Williams’ plane. It was in such poor shape, it was pushed off the ship into the sea, according to the Navy Memorial account.
But as the plane disappeared below the waves, something else had to also – the fact that the US-Soviet aerial combat happened at all.
US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in 30 minutes -- and kept it a secret for 50 years | CNN
Royce Williams was a real-life "Top Gun" 10 years before Tom Cruise was even born.
www.cnn.com
The Last of a Breed – A Decade of Piloting the Last Flying Grumman Panther
By: Thomas Reilly Arthur Alan Wolk is an accomplished pilot and Philadelphia attorney. As the founding partner of the Wolk Law Firm, which specializes in aviation law and in improving air safety, …
warbirdwatcher.com
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