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Post subject: Re: P51 "Big Beautiful Doll" & "Glamorous Gal"  Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 10:33 |
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Username Protected wrote: Stan, did you take the photo, or is that you in the Mustang?
Oh, and remember to check the brakes when you touch down.
(Shades of TVR. Nice job, BTW.) it's me flying. someone caught the takeoff on 35L when the wind was 270 at 20G27.....I got a lot of flack over the "Bob Hoover" (one wheel) moment. I do love flying the Mustang........ stan
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Post subject: Re: P51 "Big Beautiful Doll" & "Glamorous Gal" Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 20:34 |
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Username Protected wrote: :bow: Stan, after reading all of these little references here and there to Mustangs, etc. I'm starting to get the feeling like you have a whole chest full of great flying stories. I'll be patient for now, but you can't tease us much longer. We're going to need to hear all of the nitty gritty on these planes, what they're like, how the heck you got introduced to them, and the rest of the gory details.  Ok, one of these days.... it began with a fork tailed doctor killer.... it all started when I was 12. My next door neighbor (in tiny Edmondson, TX) offered me a ride in his V35. He hauled stiffs (literally....corpses) and I got to ride along to deliver one. One the way back, with all the arrogance a 12 year old can muster (and I had it inspades)...I said, "Mr. Barry, I bet I can fly this"...he laughed, threw the yoke over, and showed me how to read the old horizontal card gyro....and I fell, head over heels, in love with flying. For the next several years, I read everything I could, and when I was in high school went out to the local airport (by now we had moved a couple times....we were in Tahoka TX) where the (ancient to me) old cropduster was rebuilding a champ and a C-195...I traded time working on them (which ultimately led to my A&P), and flagging (back in the bad old days we walked along, counted rows, and held up a white flag for the cropduster to head towards...God only knows how much Malathion I've inhaled) to earn my pilot's license...in an old Colt (until the engine quit...see that thread) and ultimately my license in a Tri-Pacer (  ) Sometime I'll tell the full story of the Colt... I soloed, got my license, graduated high school, bought my first airplane (a C-140) and turned 18 .....all in 45 days. In that order. earned all the money to do it either working at the airport or the cotton gin..... stan
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