[ARC5] re RU/GF sets

[Tom Clarke]

Michael,

Funny you should mention carrying stuff back home in an airplane.  I 
used to fly a KingAir 200 on a regular run to Bethpage, NY, the home of 
LeRoy's big airplane company, i.e., Grumman Iron Works.  I never missed 
the chance to bring a couple of dozen fresh bagels back to MD. When I 
blocked in at the end of the trip, the ground crew always knew where 
Clarke had been with Dad's KingAir! Dad being the Admiral and the Beech 
was his....he just let me play with it.

That airplane had an ARC-199 HF that really made those long boring 
flights a bit more enjoyable! No wire antenna, it had some kind of a 
magic box that loaded up the skin of the airplane with a little slot in 
the vertical stab. FM, as we called it (freakin' magic).

Tom

On 8/25/2010 2:11 PM, Kludge wrote:
> Hi, Tom,
>
> That would be the noise.  It's especially bad when they're trying to hover
> nearby.  Must be that dental drill feeling.  :-)
>
> My planned (sort of) path to fame and glory was multi-engine, commercial and
> instrument, the use of which would pay for rotary wing.  Using that would
> pay for jet&  type certification in whatever I could get.  The plan had many
> fatal flaws but it looked good.  Unfortunately I never got to test it since
> I got medically grounded in 1976 while I was still in that first step and by
> the time I was clear to fly again I couldn't afford to.
>
> Now my meds won't let me pass which is okay, I guess.  I had my fun and now,
> with all the new gizmos and gadgets needed to go anywhere, it's not fun
> anymore.   No more landing on country roads to go to general stores that had
> the *best* locally made cheese, sausage, pickles&  sauerkraut - not that I'd
> ever even dream of doing such a thing, of course.  And - hypothetically -
> filling a couple of largish ice chests with said items to take back home.
> Or other such things.  ;-)
>
> Oh, well.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael, WH7HG BL01xh
> http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/NTH/index.aspx
> http://wh7hg.blogspot.com/
> http://kludges-other-blog.blogspot.com
> Hiki Nô!
>
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