AIR: License Lifted

U.S. aviation's wartime boom has brought an alarming growth of reckless flying—some of it by pilots too young to know better, some by veterans too skilled to give a damn. So long as a flyer lets off steam somewhere by himself, with plenty of room, the possible results are of primary interest only to his commander, the crash-wagon crew and the next of kin.

But the aviator who obeys that impulse to make a playful pass at a lumbering transport plane, to fly formation, waggle his wings and cut in front is not...

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