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J Boyle
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Postwar…
Film pilot Frank Tallman eventually lost his leg after a go-cart mishap.*
He later requalified for all of his previous FAA ratings….single, multi, helicopter, seaplane, sailplane, hot air baloon, blimp…etc. I believe he was the only one-legged pilot ever to do so.
He later went on to do the flying for The Great Waldo Pepper, Catch 22, Murphy’s War and Black Sheep Squadron and others.

*His partner Paul Mantz then took his place doing the flying for the original
Flight of the Phoenix…and was killed.