First printed in The Age on September 13, 1962
Dropping Weight the U-2 Approach
AMERICAN U-2 pilot Captain Eddie Dunagan misplaced practically 6 lb. in weight throughout a six-hour flight at 60,000 ft from Fiji to Laverton yesterday.
U-2 airplane quickly after touchdown with its braking parachute billowing behind.Credit score:The Age Archives
Cramped in his tiny cockpit, the pilot misplaced the burden from dehydration. His flying go well with was dripping with perspiration when he stepped from his airplane.
American U-2 pilot Captain Eddie Dunagan.Credit score:The Age Archives
Captain Dunagan, 30, piloted one of many two U-2’s from america that arrived at Laverton yesterday.
The ungainly, gull-like U-2’s can be stationed completely at Laverton to take higher air samples south of Australia for fall-out and radioactivity exams.
After stripping from their clumsy flying fits Captain Dunagan and the opposite pilot, Captain Joe Hyde (33), requested for beer to exchange the fluid that they had misplaced on the flight.
“Beer is a superb physique rejuvenator and places again the fluids,” Captain Hyde stated.
