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To: Pukin Dog
Wink, wink. I'll let you take that one in the deliberately ambiguous way it was intended! Wink, wink.

My CFI did do stall/spins with me preparatory to my private license (that'll tell you how long ago I got my ticket). Since he was a little skinny guy and I was a little skinny 16 year old kid, we had to top off the tanks before we could get it to do anything but just buffet along with the stall horn blaring. I will never forget going "over the top" and starting to rotate, and looking UP at the cows looking UP at me from some west Georgia pasture . . . but that was about as exciting as it ever got. Just let go the controls and it straightens itself out. Plane was made for fools to fly.

Of course it was correspondingly SLOW . . . I once went on a cross-country in a pretty stiff headwind, and was flying "IFR" ("I Follow Roads") along I-20 when I realized the 18 wheelers were passing me on the uphills. I did some quick fuel calculations, turned around, and was back at my home field in 10 minutes.

58 posted on 06/10/2003 5:08:37 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
"and was flying "IFR" ("I Follow Roads")"

ROTFLOL!

59 posted on 06/10/2003 5:13:06 PM PDT by VaBthang4 (Could someone show me one [1] Loserdopian elected to the federal government?)
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To: AnAmericanMother
I'll let you take that one in the deliberately ambiguous way it was intended!

Well then, you can call me "Jolly"

We were all fools at one time or another. I could tell you some embarrassing stories about me in basic flight that would make you question why the Navy ever trusted me with anything expensive. Regards, -Jolly.

61 posted on 06/10/2003 5:21:15 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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