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2) Yes, Shrew it is that was rejected for lacking a ferocious sound. 1) Well, although it certainly applies, I would have remembered "gremlins". But the term was not a general term for actual aircraft mechanical anomalies. It was a strange term they used for describing the actual pilot, a...

1) There was a term for WW2 pilots in the pacific theater who developed "mysterious" mechanical problems. A mechanical problem was one of the only reasons you could abort a mission. Claiming they had such a problem, when they returned the ground crews would not find anything wrong with the...