>I'm slightly surprised, now that I think on it, that nobody brought up
>Jimmy Doolittle before now, considering that he got some of those
>trophies flying a Gee Bee R-1, which is much like a Striker unit in
>that they're both an engine into which a pilot is installed, and they
>require supernatural abilities to fly

Ah, the GBR-1. The most powerful pre-Miyafuji Striker ever built... and the most dangerous. (To its operator, I mean. It would've been useless in combat.)

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