[ARC5] 81 Days Below Zero

[releazer at earthlink.net]

In the 1950's a USAF pilot was flying a T-33A over the Sierra Nevada mountains, had an engine failure, and punched out.  Searches found neither the man nor his airplane and finally they were called off, the pilot presumed lost.  Months later, in the spring, the pilot walked out of the wilderness.  He said he had found a hunter's cabin, which contained a rifle, and was able to survive the winter until spring.  Everyone was enthralled by his story of survival but then some began to question it, including the lack of aircraft wreckage.  As a result he left the USAF and was later killed in the crash of a light aircraft in the 1960's.  Finally, in 1978, a group of hikers found what turned out to be his ejection seat; the canopy from the airplane had been found a few years earlier.  He had not been lying.  They have never found the T-33.

Wayne
WB5WSV