Lt. Baudouin Carpentier de Changy was a fighter-pilot flying Hawker Hunter F.6's at the 7th Wing of Chièvres, when he volunteered for duty with the Fire Assistance Flights (FAF) in Belgian Congo. Flying his T-6 4KA, armed Harvard H-210, he managed to rescue his fellow pilot Sgt. Guy De Pypere from the airfield of Matadi-Tshimpi in pure Hollywood-style. He landed in front of the astonished rebels occupying the airfield's tower, to pick up his injured friend who had made a belly landing in the high grass bordering the airfield after being hit by ground fire. Unfortunately de Changy was shot down over the Inkisi bridge a few days later on 17 July 1960 and although he survived an emergency landing, he was slaughtered by the rebels.
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