"...definitely "Equipped to Survive", or nuts!"

Are they mutually exclusive? <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Most of those WWI fighter pilots were crazy. They had to be. I believe that Barker was actually supposed to be returning home and his aircraft had been stripped of most of its armament; he convinced them to let him keep one machine-gun for self-defense, then decided to "detour" over enemy territory - for old times sake, presumably - when he stumbled into a German squadron on that flight.

And Frank Luke, "the Balloon Buster of Arizona", was reputedly the only man ever to win the Medal of Honor while he was under arrest. Don't know if that's true, but it wouldn't surprise me.

"I couldn't believe I was considering doing this single-handed. I mean, Ball said you needed two people. And Ball was a lunatic!" (John Gray, "Billy Bishop Goes To War")