September 24, 1929
Under the Hood at Mitchel Field
Jimmy Doolittle's blind flight on September 24, 1929
In nineteen twenty-nine, early aviators considered bad weather an unbeatable killer because the human inner ear cannot tell up from down inside a cloud. Could an aeronautical engineer sealed beneath a canvas hood trust three untried instruments enough to fly directly into the ground?
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