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...Curtiss-Wright borrowed Doolittle to demonstrate its planes in Chile, in competition with German pilots. At a party one night Jimmy Doolittle took on an average cargo of highballs, did a handstand on a window ledge two stories above the street. The ledge began to crumble. Ashamed to call for help, he fell to the sidewalk and broke both ankles. A German pilot insisted on running the plane trials on the scheduled day. Doolittle had his feet strapped to the rudder bar, chased the German from the sky. Later, with his crutches in the plane, he soloed across the deathtraps...