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 Post subject: Re: Hello
PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2018 10:17 pm 
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Oddly enough, I was once a part-owner in a 1957 O-1 Birddog, but we couldn't take it out of the country it was in. Long story; remind me when we meet.

I graduated 2nd in my class in military aircraft ground school.

I have about an hour stick-time in two tail-draggers, AND;

I once flew (as in 'piloted', hands-on-the-yoke/feet-on-the-pedals, total control) a US Air Force Strategic 4-engine military jet over Russian airspace at the height of the Cold War! 8) True story. Remind me sometime. It's my greatest bar story.

I fell in love with old biplanes centuries ago and studied them intensely.

Lived alone on an uncontrolled grass NC airstrip for a year, tending the hangar and guiding odd pilots who landed to escape weather or just to see what the place was. All we had was a double hangar, a windsock and a broad grass strip surrounded by pine trees and soybean fields but it attracted curious private planes and homebuilts like you wouldn't believe. They all wanted to put it on their maps as an emergency destination. (Also local kids driving halfway down the strip to park in the dark at night).

Worked on the McDonell-Douglass Fox-Four Bravo and Juliet (F4B & F4J) Phantom II for about 5 years, had cockpit licenses for several things.

Designed and built a paper-and-balsa flying model the siZe of my kitchen table which took off on its own and promptly disappeared on its first and only flight.

Was fascinated by Richard Bach when he flew "coast to coast on an oil pressure gauge" back in the early '70s.

Saw Waldo Pepper and The Blue Max about 2,000 times.

Am I an expert yet?

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 Post subject: Re: Hello
PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2021 12:40 pm 
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Frank, it sounds like you have been an expert for quite a while!

I thought I would post an update - I got my student pilot certificate in 2019 and was a few weeks away from my checkride when everything shut down. Hoping to finish this summer. I'm looking forward to hearing some more of your stories in person if we can ever make that happen.

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 Post subject: Re: Hello
PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2021 2:45 pm 
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We're trying to arrange some Club meetings at Thompson Motor Speedway and/or Palmer Mass* this year, which aren't terribly far from you as the crow flies. It would be very cool to Zee you there for an afternoon and swap bar stories. Of course, if you get certified and checked out, you could rent-a-plane and fly-in. :D

Frank

*corrected from Stafford Springs; mea Culpa.

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