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Old 4th Dec 2001, 07:17
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Lu Zuckerman

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It works the other way as well. This happened many years ago. I was giving ground taxi signals to the pilot of an Air Force B-25. The pilot refused to recognize my signals and motioned me to move out of the way. I kept providing the signals because the pilot was now taxiing past a blind corner formed by our hangar. He gunned the engines and I was obliged to get the hell out of the way. Just as he cleared the blind corner one of our fire trucks took several feet off of his right wing tip. Our engineering officer soundly chewed him out and another plane had to come from his home base and pick up him and his crew. I have no idea what happened when he got back to his base.
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