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Why this fixation on the Pitts?
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 1:26 am
by Chuck Ellsworth
Why so much fixation on flying the Pitts?
It is a superb flying aircraft and I just do not understand why it gets so much coverage as a hard to fly machine?
Because it is not hard to fly...period.
Re: Why this fixation on the Pitts?
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 2:00 am
by Strega
Chuck,
Its rookies attempt at discrediting the colonel...
Re: Why this fixation on the Pitts?
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 2:04 am
by Rookie Pilot
Cool videos don't impress me Strega. Maybe they do you.
Re: Why this fixation on the Pitts?
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 2:06 am
by Strega
Rookie,
What impresses you?
Re: Why this fixation on the Pitts?
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 2:21 am
by Chuck Ellsworth
It is to bad more people don't get to meet the Colonel in person because he is quite charming.
Re: Why this fixation on the Pitts?
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 2:25 am
by Rookie Pilot
[quote author=Strega link=topic=5718.msg15027#msg15027 date=1488161179]
Rookie,
What impresses you?
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Heroes, valor, courage, service, character, integrity.
Sully. Now there's both a real hero And a great pilot. Greatest stick of all time? Maybe not. He's both of these things because under the worst possible scenario, he didn't panic. Kept his cool, and decisely chose the best outcome.
Sioux city accident Captain. Impossible situation. Never gave up, and many lived as a result.
Humble 4 bars, both. Heroes.
Re: Why this fixation on the Pitts?
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 2:34 am
by Strega
Interesting response....
Re: Why this fixation on the Pitts?
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 2:55 am
by Rookie Pilot
[quote author=Strega link=topic=5718.msg15031#msg15031 date=1488162847]
Interesting response....
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How would you handle this, Strega?
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Re: Why this fixation on the Pitts?
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 3:29 am
by Strega
not well as you,or shiny, or little pistons or mr crunch.
Re: Why this fixation on the Pitts?
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 1:39 pm
by Rookie Pilot
[quote author=Chuck Ellsworth link=topic=5718.msg15029#msg15029 date=1488162097]
It is to bad more people don't get to meet the Colonel in person because he is quite charming.
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True, Chuck.
So why all the hostility? I feel sorry for him. Really do. So much knowledge and understanding of principles of flight, lost under all that other stuff.