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Does it trip down airplane stairs?

Ford played varsity college football (center and LB). He was actually quite an elegant man who wore his athletic background lightly with aplomb.

Good looking kid, too:

If course the ribbing he got at SNL's expense was pretty good natured.

Today's "comedy" is all about the hate.

If course the ribbing he got at SNL's expense was pretty good natured.

It might have been "tame" by today's standards, but it was anything but good natured. Chevy Chase has admitted as much, saying that he saw it as his personal mission to help destroy Ford.

As for Ford, in WWII he was an officer aboard the Independence-class light-carrier USS Monterrey. The Independence-class were Frankencarriers - they slapped a flightdeck onto the top of Cleveland-class light cruiser hulls and sent them out with a capacity of 45 planes (although in operation they rarely carried more than 30).

The Clevelands had stability and center of gravity issues to begin with. Putting a nice heavy flight deck and associated gear (arrestor gear, a catapult, two elevators) didn't really make things better. During "Halsey's Typhoon" ("Cobra", during the Philippine operations in support of MacArthur), the Monterrey was experiencing severe rolls, and aircraft broke loose on the hangar deck and started careening around into each other. A bad fire broke out, and Ford - directed to assess the situation - went down and personally led a fire detail.