The story of the cat-seeker.

I’m not going to lie, I don’t remember the pilot’s name. We call it N.

He flew during the war on the Il-2. One-seat, without a rear gun. And they were destroyed at first. Ilyushin-to designed his attack aircraft with two seats. But Comrade Stalin considered that it was better to take an extra bomb, and crushed with his red pencil and the place of the rear-shooter, and hundreds of pilots' lives. Then the planes began to make two-seaters, but... it was later.

This pilot had a dog he picked up, fed, and she waited for him at the airplane’s parking lot until he returned from the flight. Once, when it was necessary to fly the plane around the circle in the area of the airfield (after repairs), N. decided to ride a dog. Fortunately, the strike jet is not a fighter: more space in the cabin. And the "dead loop" on the strike jet is not used to spin.

He placed the dog with his mouth back, his legs behind the armor and flew. I was about to enter the landing, when the dog was worried, the wool with the oak, the eyes out of the orbits, laughing, until the saliva is swallowed. N. looked around, but did not notice anything.

I have to say that Il's review back - no one. Down there is nothing to actually see.
But some whale suggested N., that the dog is not angry.

The pedal of the steering wheel turns down to the focus and into the left slide. And on the right passed the "sweet" gun and machine gun line, and a couple of messers hunters jumped through.

After that, N. only flew with his dog.
She looked back and laughed only at “the messers and foxers.” Ignored his own. At the same time, the dog reacted even to those aircraft that did not fall into the field of sight, but entered from below. How did she hear the sounds of German aircraft through the roar of the engine? Maybe I just wanted to live?

This is how N. has a live rear-view mirror.