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-- Filled with colorful personalities, dramatic flights, and critical decisions
U.S. Army pilot Karen Walden might have been killed in a helicopter crash after the Gulf War cease-fire, not in combat as the producers of the movie Courage under Fire would lead you to believe. Singer John Denver crashed and died because he refused an offer for extra fuel before piloting an unfamiliar experimental aircraft. Douglas Corrigan wanted to make the first flight from New York to Dublin in 1938, but overcautious officials refused him a transatlantic flight plan. Undaunted, he asked for a plan to fly home to California. Once airborne, he headed east and landed "mistakenly" in Dublin, thus earning the moniker "Wrong Way" Corrigan. Capt. Chuck Yeager concealed a broken rib from Air Force doctors so he could fly the Bell X-1 and become the first human to break the sound barrier. Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan might have been on an intelligence-gathering mission for th
