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It gets easier after the first 10,000

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:36 pm
by Colonel
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Photo credit to ducapo's charming wife,
whom I made ride a motorcycle around
the airport.

Re: It gets easier after the first 10,000

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 11:08 pm
by duCapo
The next frame is the touchdown. You look like you are asleep back there.

Re: It gets easier after the first 10,000

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 11:43 pm
by Chuck Ellsworth
He looks frozen in stark terror to me.

Re: It gets easier after the first 10,000

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 12:01 am
by duCapo
He should be, we just spent 35 min doing acro with me on the stick.

Re: It gets easier after the first 10,000

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 12:28 am
by Chuck Ellsworth
I envy your being able to get the chance to fly with him in the Pitts.

I bet you are happy you did.

P.S,

We have to get him a set of four gold bars to wear to bed.

Re: It gets easier after the first 10,000

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 12:51 am
by duCapo
Yes I am happy I am. As for the four bars...........not so sure how that will go over. I'd like him come and fly the Beaver, but he is worried about some sort of payback? Not in my nature. Although I have put him and his Pitts through some terrible abuse, he has been great, very tolerant.

Re: It gets easier after the first 10,000

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 9:41 am
by Colonel
[quote]get him a set of four gold bars[/quote]

Not sure I'll ever look this good:

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[quote]some terrible abuse[/quote]

Your airborne creativity is unparalled.  Particularly
memorable: the 1/2 outside barrel roll in the exit
from inverted in the aileron roll, and the outside
1/2 snap in the inverted 45 downline exiting the
1/2 cu-8  ;D


[quote]fly the Beaver[/quote]

They build them tough on the west coast - no
place for a candy-ass easterner like me!

Re: It gets easier after the first 10,000

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 11:42 am
by duCapo
[quote]They build them tough on the west coast - no
place for a candy-ass easterner like me![/quote]

It builds character. Seems to me this is a phrase i've been hearing many times a day for the last week, suck it up!

[quote]Your airborne creativity is unparalled.  Particularly
memorable: the 1/2 outside barrel roll in the exit
from inverted in the aileron roll, and the outside
1/2 snap in the inverted 45 downline exiting the
1/2 cu-8  ;D[/quote]

Just fine tuning a routine like a four bar would, for my first and last airshow. lol