Keith
This is for your benefit. As a youngster (age 14) I was hanging around the
Torrance Airport and a gentleman named Roger Keeny told me if I didn't go
away he would make me sweep the hanger. I swept the hanger and that started
my career in aerospace. For two years after school and on most weekends I
was at the Acme Aircraft and Flying school. I got something like one hour of
flying lessons for 40 hours of work. I soloed on my 16th birthday. Roger was
my primary instructor and another gentleman named Ernie Tower a P-51 flight
instructor in WW-ll was the other.They also had a WW-ll Sikorski all fabric
covered helicopter. We rebuilt it and flew it as well, my 1st rotary wing
A/C ride. So there Keith all was not at speed on the ground or in the
comfort of the well armed air conditioned timing trailer. Just thought you
would like to know.
Glen (reloading the Bazooka)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Van Scoy" <edvs@uswest.net>
To: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: all things mechanical... and Romance
> <snip> the stuff they are using these day's truly can be flown by about
> anybody... cept maybe Ed... or Glen....
>
> There you go again Buckwheat.......You are making the assumption that I or
Glen
> WANT to fly the damn things....... I thought we had this discussion
before.......
> I decided I hated helicopters after I learned they had the glide angle of
a
> crowbar. I know, I know, any landing you walk away from, etc. etc. but an
> auto-rotate landing (?) after the gearbox is blown apart (stuck to the
side by
> centrifugal force & then thrown out the back like a sack of potatoes) is
NOT a
> happy day!!! I also learned that it is NOT a good thing when all the panel
lights
> turn red....May have had something to do with trying to fly in a typhoon,
loaded
> down with water buffalos (but that's another story). Anyway, green is
good -UP-
> red is bad-DOWN (hard). Gravity is NOT just a good thing - it's the law
(ask Dan
> about those sudden gusts). So, I'll do my traveling on land thank you (or
at
> least something with wings) As for Glen, he is probably happy in his
timing tower
> and has no need or desire to levitate it as it is already the best seat in
the
> house.
> Ed (A firm believer in terra firma)
>
> Keith Turk wrote:
>
> > In the world of Flying ... I think it's pretty natural to actually have
an
> > emotional attachment to something.... in my case it's the Cobra.... and
> > yeah it whined... and Yes I flew Recip's...( if you can call that Huges
300
> > a Helicopter ) But the G model Cobra....( the first of the models ) was
> > something that fit me like a worn out sweater.. It never tried to hurt
> > me.. ( well almost never ... I did get a broken wing award in it...when
> > collective pitch jammed ). most importantly somehow it managed to have
> > grace while it's million parts were flying loose formation.
> >
> > The technology of the Apache was awe inspiring.... but lacked the
> > requirement for me to be a Real Pilot... you know... where you wiggle
> > sticks and things happen without the aid of Extremely sophisticated
> > stability augmentation systems.... Sure the Cobra had some of that...
but
> > the computers had Huge cards... and it wasn't fancy.... to hit a target
you
> > MADE it happen rather then just showing up.... the stuff they are using
> > these day's truly can be flown by about anybody... cept maybe Ed... or
> > Glen..... the thing could loop and roll.... I just couldn't wear
it...like
> > the Cobra...which after a while I put on like a second skin....
> >
> > I'd like to think some of you have race cars that you have been driving
> > long enough to have the same warm fuzzy feeling's about.... ( based on
the
> > Rust I'm betting they are circle track cars....) be interesting to hear
> > about them....
> >
> > Keith Turk
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