Originally Posted by
megan
Indeed we are not, but it needs to be remembered that even these two gentlemen made decisions that resulted in accidents where aircraft were written off, the former refusing to take instruction from a junior that lead to the loss of a F-104, the latter refueling his piston Aero Commander with Jet A, belatedly the former refused to accept responsibility, the latter did and went on to introduce to the industry a fuel nozzle that prevented misfuelling.
The latter did not refuel himself, it was a line boy who after the accident felt deeply disturbed for mishandling the fuel. Bob then asked the boy to refuel again for the rest of the airshow.
(Forever Flying pg.275-277)