[Elecraft] eHam spotlight spotted.

[Bill Coleman]

On 2/22/02 5:59 PM, Tom Hammond N=D8SS at n0ss@earthlink.net wrote:

>I was busy looking out the window, confirming that the wing was not going 
>to fall off as we took off... finally airborne, I checked out the avionics=
 
>of the plane... there were NONE (at all...!). And the ONLY radio in the 
>plane was an OLD Kenwood TR-2C (2W portable) which was attached to the 
>sunscreen over the pilot's head with rubber bands!!!

Plenty of light aircraft fly in perfect safety with absolutely no radios 
aboard.

After all, flying was invented long before Radio was portable enough to 
use in an aircraft.

>Now, THAT made all of us feel really SAFE!
>
>Oh, I forgot to mention that you could look down at the floorboard and 
>(literally) see the Caribbean Sea through the HOLES in the floorboard!

Now, THAT is scary. If the skin of the aircraft was so corroded as to 
have large holes in the floor -- I'd hazard to guess it was not airworthy.





Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901