The airman's meanest natural enemy is not fog but ice. Pilots, who do not hesitate to fly by instruments through the thickest fog, still consider a freezing rain unflyable weather. But last week a group of test flyers took off from a Minneapolis field in a specially equipped B-25 named Flaming Mamie, headed straight for a wave of freezing rain. The plane flew through the storm unscathed. When it landed safely at the field, its wings almost as clean as a dentist's fingernails, the plane and crew were greeted by a group...
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