[TheForge] OT Learning to Fly

[Washington, Aubrey O.]

Yup.  The runway behind you, the sky above you, and the fuel you didn't buy.
 
The guy I took my check ride from used to own a P51 Mustang.  He raced it back in the 60s and flew in air shows in the 70s.  Then he sold it to a doctor in West Texas with more money than sense.  He used it to show off on weekends and to make a crater in a plowed field.  I think the report said something like "powered flight into terrain."  I guess his wife misses him, but the world misses the great plane.
 
Aubrey

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From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of Ron Childers
Sent: Wed 12/13/2006 5:56 AM
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Aubrey, do you remember the three most useless things to a pilot? Btw, the
winner of the "least # of hours to sol" contest received his award
posthumously.

Ron C

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Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 5:36 PM
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Sheesh, Darrell !  I think it took me closer to 8 hours to solo.  As was the
custom at my flight school, when I got back to the FBO after my first solo,
my instructor met me carrying a pair of scissors.  He proceeded to cut out
the back of the shirt I was wearing following the sweat line (which pretty
much covered the entire back).  The he signed and dated the patch of shirt
and tacked to the the wall at the FBO.  When I finally got my ticket a few
months later, I got to take my patch of shirt home.

Later I bought part interest in a Cardinal (Cessna 177).  That was a fun
plane to fly.  But, eventually, flying just got too expensive.  Gosh, I miss
it though.  I still look up every time a small plane flies over.

Aubrey

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Sent: Tue 12/12/2006 1:19 AM
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I learned to fly in 1963 at Roseburg Oregon. Bud Good owned the airport
then.
I soloed in 2 hours and 50 minutes. The instructor that soloed me thought I
was just checking out in a 150.
I have been building and flying model air plains since I could get the cap
off of a tube of glue.
Bud almost needed a whole role of paper when he found out.

Darrell


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From: "Washington, Aubrey O." <awashington at ou.edu>
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Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 4:18 PM
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When I was learning to fly (20+ years ago) I was one of only two in my
ground school class that had no trouble learning to use a "flight computer"
which is nothing more that a fancy circular slide rule.  The youngsters had
never seen a slide rule before.

Aubrey


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