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Air Force's Carney undergoes screening for further flight training
ESPN.com ^ | 13 July 2007 | AP

Posted on 7/15/2007, 9:53:11 PM by GOP_Raider

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- Getting into the air is nothing new for Falcons quarterback Shaun Carney, who threw 12 touchdown passes last year. But on Friday, he really was in the air.

The Air Force cadet completed his first solo flight in a DA-20 single-engine aircraft, part of a program that screens students for further flight training.

"You have a lot of people around you when you run an offense," Carney said. "Here it's just you and the plane and a lot of things you can't control."

His flight lasted about 15 minutes and consisted of three takeoffs and landings, some touch-and-go landing-takeoff combinations, and flying in traffic around Cadet Field.

"It got a little congested because there were a lot of planes coming back the same time and when things got close is when the adrenaline was kicking in the most," Carney said.

His flight instructor, Capt. Linda Thorstenson, said he did well.

(Excerpt) Read more at sports.espn.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: airforce; ncaa

1 posted on 7/15/2007, 9:53:13 PM by GOP_Raider
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2 posted on 7/15/2007, 9:56:17 PM by GOP_Raider (FReepmail me to join the FR Idaho Ping List.)
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To: GOP_Raider
Ya know, for a minute there I thought the Air Force had its own carnival and one of its workers ...

Guess I better start following College ball. :)

3 posted on 7/15/2007, 9:57:03 PM by NonValueAdded (Brian J. Marotta, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub, (1948-2007) Rest In Peace, our FRiend)
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To: NonValueAdded

LOL! I wasn’t going to say anything, but...


4 posted on 7/15/2007, 9:59:47 PM by GOP_Raider (FReepmail me to join the FR Idaho Ping List.)
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To: GOP_Raider

I thought all those men and women in uniform were only there because they had no other prospects. Now I’m all confused.


5 posted on 7/15/2007, 10:31:49 PM by Uriah_lost ("build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must." -Fred D Thompson)
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To: GOP_Raider

That’s one way to eye the competition’s formation.


6 posted on 7/15/2007, 11:27:37 PM by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: Man50D

Air Force is a conference opponent of my own team, so I get to see a lot of their wishbone option offense. They’ve been running that offense since I was a kid. I’ve always loved watching that type of offense—Nebraska ran the option since the late Cretaceous period and I loved watching that type of offense.


7 posted on 7/15/2007, 11:59:11 PM by GOP_Raider (FReepmail me to join the FR Idaho Ping List.)
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To: NonValueAdded

The DA20 is a fun airplane. I wish him well.


8 posted on 7/16/2007, 12:48:27 AM by Ace's Dad ("I think I'd better do the actual stealing.")
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To: Ace's Dad; GOP_Raider

Does look like fun - sorta like a glider-version of the Traumahawk .................. FRegards

9 posted on 7/16/2007, 4:25:55 AM by gonzo (In Florida, inmates make cigarettes in jail that I buy, and I can go to jail for smoking one! WTF?)
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To: gonzo
sorta like a glider-version of the Traumahawk

Ace himself used to traumatize my innards with the DA20 doing "zero G" maneuvers!

10 posted on 7/17/2007, 12:10:23 AM by Ace's Dad ("I think I'd better do the actual stealing.")
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To: gonzo

A big difference from the old T-41 Mescalero I soloed in.....


11 posted on 7/17/2007, 12:14:30 AM by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: Squantos
A big difference from the old T-41 Mescalero I soloed in.....

Just my thought. The T-41 wasn't too sexy, was it?

12 posted on 7/17/2007, 12:19:53 AM by Half Vast Conspiracy (Can I cast the second stone?)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

DOD version of the Cessna 172, black and silver and I was in LOVE with it ! It was old, had more flight hours on it than my instructor liked, it smelled like fear and air sickness yet was the most forgiving airplane that a student pilot could want......


13 posted on 7/17/2007, 12:37:35 AM by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: Squantos; Ace's Dad
"...smelled like fear and air sickness..."

Roger that! Most of the stuff we 'borrowed' was like that.

Finally soloed 'legal' in 1970 in a '59 C-172 straight-tail. You're right - real forgiving ride .................. FRegards

14 posted on 7/17/2007, 2:14:35 AM by gonzo (In Florida, inmates make cigarettes in jail that I buy, and I can go to jail for smoking one! WTF?)
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