“Corky was flying the BD from South Carolina to DC, IFR, when he lost all oil pressure on the Turbomeca engine over North Carolina. He shut it down, deadsticked down through the clouds and found himself over an Interstate highway.
He landed on the highway, engine out, after gliding down abeam a pickup truck and signalling the driver to slow and let him touch down in front of him, which the pickup driver very coolly did, as though having a tiny jet appear off his left side at about 10 feet of altitude was something that happened every day.
Corky touched down and rolled toward an exit ramp and had enough inertia to take the exit, roll down it, and roll into the ramp of a gas station. He literally rolled across the little pneumatic hose that ran a ding-ding signal inside the garage so the attendant knew someone had shown up at the pumps.
Guy walked out, wiping his hands on an oily rag, and Corky threw back the canopy and said, “Fill ‘er up, please.”
Did they the make the scene in the film about the event then??
From about 4.50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSp5M3Z0GsU
Easty
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