My wife and I spent the July 4th weekend at Martha's Vineyard in Mass.
There's a gentleman by the name of Paul who owns and flies a 1941 Biplane
for a living, giving tours of the island.
So my wife and I went for a 15 minute ride in an open cockpit plane around
the island. At the end of the 15 minutes, he asked if we wanted stunts.
Stunts you say? Yep. For another $50, he spent the next 5 minutes taking
us through a hammerhead, a loop, a figure 8, and something else. Truly
exhilarating, and better than every roller coaster I've ever been on. I'll
post some of the pics soon....
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From owner-spridgets at autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-spridgets@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Robert E. Shlafer
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 7:21 AM
To: Rick Fisk
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Cap'n Bob, This one's for you. Aircraft, No LBC
"I bet Cap'n Bob....."
Who, me???
Well....you can roll any aircraft
with the proper speed and
"entry attitude" but you never heard it
from me. I mean I'm a civilian regional
airline pilot who flew staid, 'ole mini-buses
so how would I know anything about
acrobatic flight??
heh, heh,heh,heh....enough to save my
a$$ and those of all aboard when my
little airliner got rolled in the wake of a
747 going into Newark one day long ago,
so I guess I know something about thanx
to an acrobatic course I had the foresight to take back circa '71.
Otherwise, could've ended up
dropping into Frank's back yard unannounced....very bad form! :)
On the first public outing of the Boeing
707, the factory PIC rolled the aircraft
on it's last flyby the crowd. You see this
every once in a while on the History
channel or Discovery "Wings"...pretty
impressive for it's day considering the
aircraft's relative size and planned
application.
The engineers and execs. about had a
cow but the President of Boeing gave
the guy a bonus (as God intended and as it should be!!:).
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