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Totally Frivolous Plane Ride!
tapwater
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..I went and did something totally frivolous today. Went down to the Kankakee airport and
booked an aerobatic flight in a Boeing Stearman. I had the old fashioned cloth flying "helmet"
with earphones and mike, plus a parachute. The pilot said he'd tell me if we had to get out but
if I looked in the mirror and he was gone.....GET OUT!
..He let me have the stick on the way up to 5-6,000 ft. I can still make coordinated turns and climb
straight. We did loops, spins, hammerheads and aileron rolls for almost a half hour. I can't get this
silly grin off my face. I found out that I definitely prefer a stick to a yoke. (I thought I would.)
You haven't lived until you're spinning toward the ground, Altitude indicator spinning like it's
motorized, in an open cockpit!
..Here's a link to the organization and their planes. This brings up the Stearman first.
http://www.airpowersquadron.org/#!boeing-stearman/c1bay
booked an aerobatic flight in a Boeing Stearman. I had the old fashioned cloth flying "helmet"
with earphones and mike, plus a parachute. The pilot said he'd tell me if we had to get out but
if I looked in the mirror and he was gone.....GET OUT!
..He let me have the stick on the way up to 5-6,000 ft. I can still make coordinated turns and climb
straight. We did loops, spins, hammerheads and aileron rolls for almost a half hour. I can't get this
silly grin off my face. I found out that I definitely prefer a stick to a yoke. (I thought I would.)
You haven't lived until you're spinning toward the ground, Altitude indicator spinning like it's
motorized, in an open cockpit!
..Here's a link to the organization and their planes. This brings up the Stearman first.
http://www.airpowersquadron.org/#!boeing-stearman/c1bay
Comments
sounds like a fantastic ride .
I would never make it not sure what its called I sure there is medical term I have ( chicken or puzzzzzzy maybe is what I call it ) but any spinning looping at the amusement park rids do me in big time in a plane it would take a week to clean it out [:I][:I]
May you someday experience the same thing - in a jet.
Picture this, pilot with a heavy Russian accent "we will be arriving at the Baghdad International Airport in a few minutes" then all of a sudden the plane nose dives into a corkscrew, comes back level and bounces off the runway.
Or crammed into a C-130 in Afghan like a bunch of sardines at night and the plane goes what feels like totally verticle!!
I know there are far worse rides to be had in a hostile area, I know what I went through is nothing compared to what others have done but for me it was enough!
Wunnerful, ain't it? Nothing like a few nip ups, whifferdills, and inverted rat's * with a stick in your hand.
May you someday experience the same thing - in a jet.
..This was a last minute bucket list idea. Now you've got me to
thinking about the step up to a jet. My pilot in charge was really
good at keeping the G's pretty close to neutral except in a few
attitudes where there was a lot of positive.
quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
Wunnerful, ain't it? Nothing like a few nip ups, whifferdills, and inverted rat's * with a stick in your hand.
May you someday experience the same thing - in a jet.
..This was a last minute bucket list idea. Now you've got me to
thinking about the step up to a jet. My pilot in charge was really
good at keeping the G's pretty close to neutral except in a few
attitudes where there was a lot of positive.
Damn! I got get me a bucket! Don
What The hell Are You thinkin'[:0]
Didnt you just get Yer Guts Fixed
What The hell Are You thinkin'[:0]
..No Woody, no gut issues lately, but with all my health issues, what's it gonna hurt? There's a bolt head that sticks too far out of my spine and it's been years since the bleeding ulcer and finger amputation. They say I have mild, transient epilepsy but I don't believe them. I want to do as much fun stuff as I can while I still can.
quote:Originally posted by tapwater
quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
Wunnerful, ain't it? Nothing like a few nip ups, whifferdills, and inverted rat's * with a stick in your hand.
May you someday experience the same thing - in a jet.
..This was a last minute bucket list idea. Now you've got me to
thinking about the step up to a jet. My pilot in charge was really
good at keeping the G's pretty close to neutral except in a few
attitudes where there was a lot of positive.
Damn! I got get me a bucket! Don
Better get two. They fill up fast.[8D]
That sounds awesome!
..It was. It was good to fly a little again. My neck is a little sore
today. I don't think it was from the aerobatics as much as me just
rubber-necking, trying to keep a focus point to avoid disorientation.
Hopefully it does not go aerobatic.
Brad Steele
Putting a B-17 ride in my bucket later this summer.
Hopefully it does not go aerobatic.
..A few years back, I had the chance but the B-17 was booked up. I "settled" on the B-24 Liberator. Once in the air, we had the run of the aircraft. Went up to the bomb sight, the tail gun and everywhere.
..Me scanning for ME-109's
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I am thinking about the milf neighbor now,,no wait,,the Mrs. wouldn't like it and I would die today.[:o)]
..They were interesting fellas. I asked about volunteering at the home and was told they were always short of help, even if it was to just sit and listen to the residents...Maybe I got a checkmark in the "good deed" column..[^]
..When training in Cessna 152's and 172's, I had the controls from checklist to landing and never felt a tinge a airsickness. I think you have a good point...[^]
..Addition: I make for an awful passenger in a car if someone else is driving!
If you get to that jet, here's one major tip: You almost never actually move the stick to do maneuvers. Pressure is all it takes. In many cases, just THINKING about pressure does it. Only in low speed or for very violent moves do you move the stick. I used to do lazy 8s and have the student hold the stick to see if it moved. None of them ever detected any motion, and we flew lazy 8s to 90? of bank and 45? nose high and low.
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunwards I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a thousand things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there,
I've chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air,
Up, up the long delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle, flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of god.
High Flight
by John Magee