***SPOILERS*** It's very probably the studios making the Airport movies in the 1970's got one of their bright ideas from this "Kraft Suspesnse Theater" episode. In Which it has co-pilot Let. John Corby,Martin Milner, put his skills to use under the most trying and dangerous of circumstances possible. Let Corby feeling that he doesn't quite have the stuff to be a first rate USAF pilot is satisfied to play second string as co-pilot and let his boss, the pilot, do the flying. This outrages the head of March Airport Base the General,Leif Erickson, who feels that Colby is just a lazy good for nothing bum who shirks responsibility at every turn. The General in fact wants to kick Corby out of the service but sill thinks that there's still some hope in him. That hope soon comes out a trans-Atlantic flight on a B-47 bomber that the plane's pilot Maj. Dawson, Richard Long, ends up unconscious where there's an on air explosion in the plane's cockpit.
With no one on board to fly the B-47 it's now up to the scared down to his boots and almost wetting his flight suite Let.Corby to get the plane safely to base at far off Goose Bay. This is quite a job for Let.Corby in that the plane's navigation or radar system was knocked out in the explosion and he now,due to the explosion, has only 1 hour of flue to make the trip to Goose Bay that will needs at least twice that much for him to make it successfully! Knowing that it's now or never Let. Corby handles the B-47 like a champ but what he's up against even the most experience USAF bomber pilot would find very difficult if not impossible to pull off.
***SPOILERS*** Nail biting suspense that has Let. Corby doing his best to get his crippled and almost out of flue B-47 to rendezvous with a tanker plane and re-fuel in mid-flight. Or else end up together with his crew at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. It's in fact the injured pilot Maj. Dawson who almost screwed everything up for the desperate to get his B-47 fueled up Let.Corby. With the out cold Maj.Dawson regaining conscious and thinking that he's still in charge he almost got Let.Corby to lose his concentration in having his plane refueled by trying,in his very unstable condition,to refuel it himself!
I's Let.Corby's steel nerves more then anything else that got him and his crew out of the jam that they found themselves in 30,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean. And in successfully refueling and landing his plane Let.Corby gained the respect of all those ,including the General, who thought that he didn't quite have it as an USAF bomber pilot. And it was that life and death situation that Let.Corby found himself in up in the wild blue yonder that made that all possible.
With no one on board to fly the B-47 it's now up to the scared down to his boots and almost wetting his flight suite Let.Corby to get the plane safely to base at far off Goose Bay. This is quite a job for Let.Corby in that the plane's navigation or radar system was knocked out in the explosion and he now,due to the explosion, has only 1 hour of flue to make the trip to Goose Bay that will needs at least twice that much for him to make it successfully! Knowing that it's now or never Let. Corby handles the B-47 like a champ but what he's up against even the most experience USAF bomber pilot would find very difficult if not impossible to pull off.
***SPOILERS*** Nail biting suspense that has Let. Corby doing his best to get his crippled and almost out of flue B-47 to rendezvous with a tanker plane and re-fuel in mid-flight. Or else end up together with his crew at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. It's in fact the injured pilot Maj. Dawson who almost screwed everything up for the desperate to get his B-47 fueled up Let.Corby. With the out cold Maj.Dawson regaining conscious and thinking that he's still in charge he almost got Let.Corby to lose his concentration in having his plane refueled by trying,in his very unstable condition,to refuel it himself!
I's Let.Corby's steel nerves more then anything else that got him and his crew out of the jam that they found themselves in 30,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean. And in successfully refueling and landing his plane Let.Corby gained the respect of all those ,including the General, who thought that he didn't quite have it as an USAF bomber pilot. And it was that life and death situation that Let.Corby found himself in up in the wild blue yonder that made that all possible.