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Collin
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 Posted Wednesday, February 3, 2010 @ 07:56 AM
Hi Sam,
Be sure to send us pictures of the planes you solo today.
Collin
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flyingkroeger
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Posted Friday, February 5, 2010 @ 06:37 PM
Happy Birthday Sam from downunder.
What planes did you get to fly on your birthday?
Tim
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Sam M.
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Posted Friday, February 5, 2010 @ 09:03 PM
Thanks Collin!
I will post pictures here when I get them! I soloed a 450 Stearman,Cub, Agcat, PA18,PA11,Clipped wing cub, Scout,150,172 and a Mooney Mite.
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Sam M.
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Posted Friday, February 5, 2010 @ 10:54 PM
Hey Guys I got a video from the exp Pa 18 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWEOhP2FGb4
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Jorgen
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Posted Saturday, February 6, 2010 @ 05:57 AM
Congratualtions Sam,
it must have been a great experience! After all, it´s not every day you get to fly without a shirt on your back!!!
But as we all know, we fly with the seat of our pants. You still wore those, I hope?
May the 4's be with you/ Jörgen
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Sam M.
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Posted Saturday, February 6, 2010 @ 10:57 PM
Haha, I did! It was fun I wore that shirt to the afterparty As well!!
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Bob Grimstead
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Posted Monday, February 8, 2010 @ 01:33 AM
Many Congratualations Sam!
I am very envious. I was 20 before I flew my first power solo, and then it was only a boring Cherokee!
I hope you have many more happy flying birthdays.
Yours, Bob
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Sam M.
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Posted Wednesday, April 14, 2010 @ 01:59 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bYNZb2pfx8
First Solo
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Jorgen
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Posted Wednesday, April 14, 2010 @ 10:31 AM
"We must get rid of turbines. They are ruining aviation. We need to go back
to big round engines. Anybody can start a turbine, you just need to move a
switch from "OFF" to "START" and then remember
to move it back to "ON" after a while. My PC is more difficult to start.
Cranking a round engine requires skill, finesse and style. On some planes,
the pilots are not even allowed to do it.
Turbines start by whining for a while, then give a small lady-like poot and
start whining louder. Round engines give a satisfying rattle-rattle,
click-click BANG, more rattles, another BANG, a big macho fart or two, more
clicks, a lot of smoke and finally a serious low pitched roar. We like
that. It's a guy thing. When you start a round engine, your mind is engaged
and you can concentrate on the flight ahead. Starting a turbine is like
flicking on a ceiling fan: Useful, but hardly exciting. Turbines don't
break often enough, leading to aircrew boredom, complacency and inattention.
A round engine at speed looks and sounds like it's going to blow at any
minute. This helps concentrate the mind. Turbines don't have enough control
levers to keep a pilot's attention. There's nothing to fiddle with during
the flight. Turbines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman lanterns.
Round engines smell like God intended flying machines to smell.
I think I hear the nurse coming down the hall. I gotta go"
(excerts from the canard chat room)
Congratulations again Sam, and may the 4's be with you/ Jörgen
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Bob Grimstead
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Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 01:20 AM
Big, brash, brawny, blunt-fronted, blundering, thundering biplane. That's the Stearman!
Now I'm even more envious.
I was over thirty before I got to fly the Posey's Stearman, and forty before I flew Matthew Hill's 985-engined Super Stearman.
That's me & Matt right there. Who'd a thought we'd be a two-ship Fournier display team 20 years later?
If God had meant us to fly behind horizontally-opposed engines, then Pratt & Whitney would have made them that way!
Actually, Ferdinand Porsche seemed to know what he was doing.
Yours, Bob
[Edit by Bob Grimstead on Friday, January 6, 2012 @ 09:25 PM]
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