After the engine cut out, a Dauntless returning to USS Yorktown began to fly erratically and lose altitude until the pilot was able to restart it. The pilot called to his gunner: "I bet 50 percent of the people down there thought we were going to crash."
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/features/a-little-humor-from-naval-aviation-history