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Show HARRY A. MOYER November 22,2002 BEN: The King Cobra. Did you like that? I barely know anything about that aircraft. HAR: Liked it, yeah. What I heard from the P-39 was underpowered, but the King Cobra we liked, I liked that. It was a good flying air plane, we liked to fly it. And I remember I tried to get up to 40,000 feet one day, and I kept stalling off, and stalling off, and then I just wanted 40,000 feet and I couldn't. BEN: How high did you get? HAR: About 39,000 and plus. BEN: That's way up there! HAR: In that thing, yeah. And so it fell off and falling straight down. And so I was looking straight down at the damn thing, and I didn't have any controls. The thing was just falling. So I was building up speed pretty good, and I started getting into a compression flutter and I thought, well, I was in deep trouble. I thought Jesus, I'm going to pull this damn thing apart if I'm not careful. So I just let it go, and the damn thing was going just straight down like this! I'd been straight down before, but not so dang long! Thin air up there just coming down on Hollaman Air Force Base, and finally I just moved that stick back a little bit in that low-density air, and it started coming up a little bit. I think I ended up halfway to El Paso by the time- Jesus, I though I was just going to stick myself in that damned airbase, that's for sure. So that was, I thought, "What a dumb thing to do!" But anyway, we'd done a lot of things in airplanes, and I probably always knew what I was doing, but that got away from me. 110 |