Very cool..... amazing story.... had to laugh.... you never remember your
average students... and the bad one's you put out of your mind as best you
can..... and the good one's are what makes the whole teaching gig
special.... one of the two best Students I ever had was brought up on an
airport working like you did to earn his flights.... that ASS.... he was
so good I hated to touch the controls... anyway we were done doing the
basics one day and I was out teaching him Wing Overs in a Cobra..... and
our hero was being Very smooth and exceptionally slow with his Roll
rates...... so being the semi Fine instructor I am.... I called him Panty
Waist and told him to turn the Damn thing.... Next thing I know I'm
looking at the Ground through the roof..... Hmmm thinking with a Cobra
this isn't a good thing.... I took the controls and Finally got it back
right side up and decided there and then.... never to call someone a Panty
waist..... seem's his daddy was trading rides for work... only his daddy
had a Pitts.... this boy wasn't afraid to be upside down.... Hence the
worn out face....
There are NO gray areas in flying.... it's all black and white.... and
sometimes you step out of the black side with a bit more white....
Keith ( oh the bad one story's I could tell.... but one day I'll do the
Thug- artichoke)
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> From: glen barrett <speedtimer@charter.net>
> To: Ed Van Scoy <edvs@uswest.net>; Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
> Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: all things mechanical... and Romance
> Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 9:35 AM
>
> 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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