It made sense that most Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots would be superstitious when one considers how much could go wrong, but if Wing Commander Douglas Bader was a superstitious man, he likely wouldn’t have gone up on the day he went down. One of Douglas Bader’s prosthetic legs got caught on the Spitfire on his way out. Douglas Bader’s story was immortalized in Paul Brickell’s 1954 book, Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader, and it was made into a film in ’56.