He recommends Colonel McKee as his successor. The base flight surgeon tells Banner that only a young, fit person could have survived, leading the general to accept a promotion and transfer.
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When Bond is assigned to fly the last half-power test before the main flight, he goes to full power without authorization and barely survives a high-altitude bailout when the aircraft goes out of control. The general insists, however, on piloting the first test flight at full power, despite strong pressure from his superior, Lieutenant General Bryan Shelby ( Paul Fix), to let a younger man take on the dangerous job. With an appreciation that both men were to blame for the altercation, Banner gives Bond the assignment he craves: the rocket-powered X-2, which is designed to fly to the edge of outer space. Bond reacts badly to being held by a bystander, invoking memories of his Korean War imprisonment, and punches Bromo twice. Bond's rehabilitation is endangered when a drunk Major "Bromo" Lee ( Murray Hamilton), Banner's top test pilot, tries to pick a fight with him at the officers club. Then Major Joe Craven (James Garner), another close friend of Bond's, is killed when a wing of his XF-120 tears away, confirming Bond's warning. The two begin to trust each other, especially when Banner is endangered in a test flight and Bond calmly and expertly comes to the rescue. Afterward, Bond sees Banner nearly collapse in the locker room, but Banner shrugs off the incident. When the general tries to replicate Bond's maneuvers, nothing untoward happens.
Gilbert (Ralph Moody), the head of the company that built the fighter. He claims he did not press the aircraft beyond its design specifications, but no one believes him, especially H. When Bond flies the new Gilbert XF-120 fighter, he finds dangerous structural problems that threaten its imminent acceptance by the Air Force.
Banner is a hands-on leader, taking the most dangerous assignments himself. Bond presses for a job and accepts the general's offer of routine flying in support. A complication is that the general's secretary and love interest, Connie Mitchell (Virginia Leith), is an old flame. His old buddy, Colonel McKee ( Charles McGraw), tries his best for him, but the base commander, Brigadier General Banner (Lloyd Nolan), turns him down because he cannot trust him to be stable. Upon his release, he took a year to recover from the ordeal before showing up at the Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, hoping to return to work as a test pilot. USAF Major Lincoln Bond (William Holden) was captured during the Korean War and subjected to torture, finally cracking after 14 months and signing a confession used for propaganda.
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