Pale Horse
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 4:23 am
I have flown many airplanes. I have flown many Pitts.
There is something special about the Pitts (sorry). Many
planes look like it, but none of them respond to the flight
controls the same way. Once you fly a Pitts, you will be
ruined for normal aircraft, forever. Sorry about that.
My favorite Pitts:
I love her dearly. Her last owner died in her. She tried to
kill me the first time I flew her - stick jammed in a vertical
downline. My own fault. I should have checked for junk in
the tail before I flew her for the first time. Most aerobatic
aircraft don't experience negative G, which floats stuff up
from the floor. Was fun landing her for the first time with
a jammed stick. Sporty.
But I am a simple person. Every time I make a mistake, I
resolve to never, ever make that mistake again. Every time
one of my friends die because they make a mistake, I resolve
to never ever make that mistake, that my friends paid with
their blood for me to learn from their deadly mistake.
No one else thinks like this, and that's ok. Everyone else
around me dies, and I continue to live. I ride a
I named her that after I got her. I had no choice except to
get her. She was terribly fucked up, like a woman that had
been brutally gang raped over a long period of time by a
particularly vicious gang of thugs. Never the same.
I had to take her apart and fix all the bad repairs and the
terrible parts that had been used to put her together, after
she was rebuilt after the crash that killed her last owner
by a series of well-intentioned idiots.
Nearly all pilots are egotistical @ssholes and put their own
name on their airplanes. Car manufacturers are the same.
Fords, for example. I am sure you envy and hate Elon Musk
with a passion, but he put the name of a great engineer on
his cars, so who's the egotistical @sshole?
I did not put my name on Pale Horse. I put her name on it,
which seems quite sensible to me, but absolutely no one gets it.
That's ok. I remember talking to the Snowbirds about negative G
formation - simple stuff if you're a TC Inspector - and they smiled
and said that the ice cream lickers didn't know the difference.
Do me a favor and start a petition to put up a statue of Alan Turing
in your home town. No one has a fucking clue who he is, either,
and that's a tragedy. He and John Moses Browning were incredibly
influential people in the 20th Century, and they are forgotten.
There is something special about the Pitts (sorry). Many
planes look like it, but none of them respond to the flight
controls the same way. Once you fly a Pitts, you will be
ruined for normal aircraft, forever. Sorry about that.
My favorite Pitts:
I love her dearly. Her last owner died in her. She tried to
kill me the first time I flew her - stick jammed in a vertical
downline. My own fault. I should have checked for junk in
the tail before I flew her for the first time. Most aerobatic
aircraft don't experience negative G, which floats stuff up
from the floor. Was fun landing her for the first time with
a jammed stick. Sporty.
But I am a simple person. Every time I make a mistake, I
resolve to never, ever make that mistake again. Every time
one of my friends die because they make a mistake, I resolve
to never ever make that mistake, that my friends paid with
their blood for me to learn from their deadly mistake.
No one else thinks like this, and that's ok. Everyone else
around me dies, and I continue to live. I ride a
I named her that after I got her. I had no choice except to
get her. She was terribly fucked up, like a woman that had
been brutally gang raped over a long period of time by a
particularly vicious gang of thugs. Never the same.
I had to take her apart and fix all the bad repairs and the
terrible parts that had been used to put her together, after
she was rebuilt after the crash that killed her last owner
by a series of well-intentioned idiots.
Nearly all pilots are egotistical @ssholes and put their own
name on their airplanes. Car manufacturers are the same.
Fords, for example. I am sure you envy and hate Elon Musk
with a passion, but he put the name of a great engineer on
his cars, so who's the egotistical @sshole?
I did not put my name on Pale Horse. I put her name on it,
which seems quite sensible to me, but absolutely no one gets it.
That's ok. I remember talking to the Snowbirds about negative G
formation - simple stuff if you're a TC Inspector - and they smiled
and said that the ice cream lickers didn't know the difference.
Do me a favor and start a petition to put up a statue of Alan Turing
in your home town. No one has a fucking clue who he is, either,
and that's a tragedy. He and John Moses Browning were incredibly
influential people in the 20th Century, and they are forgotten.