Ursa Major
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Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
License to kill James Bond film from 1989Gotta ask, what film is this clip from in that Sierra Hotel compilation?
Transmitted from my FlightPhone
License to kill James Bond film from 1989Gotta ask, what film is this clip from in that Sierra Hotel compilation?
Transmitted from my FlightPhone
OK, the mental image of you standing up in a bathtub, or of me standing up in a bathtub, pretty much scars me for life. Thank you for that, Glenn.:roll:OK, Don't do anything that might hurt you. If you want to leave the training wheels on your bike forever then do it. I don't even stand up in the bathtub anymore.
Glenn
This brings up a pet peeve of mine... My mom had to do precision spins in a champ to get her commercial ticket. I think the problem is that we may have the blind leading the blind. Pilots are becoming button pushers, more and more all the time. Witness the Cirrus... Sputter? Push the red button. When I was training a lot of banner pilots, the first thing I asked them to do was to spin the airplane. If they didn't know how, I either taught them, sent them for instruction, or sent them packing. Lots of the successful applicants are now senior Captains. There will always be some fool who doesn't understand the function and the limits.
I had around 300 hrs in a Citabria, wrung all the acro out of it till It got boring.
Then decided I wanted to get into off airport stuff, beat the poor thing up pretty good till I wised up and realized that it was not designed for off airport work. Traded it in on a cub, about 10 minutes into my cub career tried an aileron roll. Cub is about as worthless at acro as a Citabria is off airport.
Right equipment for the mission...
The guy who checked me out in a Stearman liked to get a run at it. He rolled 45 to the right then rolled to the left.
I didn't time it, but it took about a week.
I had a friend who did airshows with his 450 Stearman. That first roll on take off was his start. One day when the density altitude was up with heat and humidity he started his take off with the roll getting most of the way around and SPLAT. Good by old friend with his wife watching.
Doing loops in a 450 Stearman was a hoot. Big honkin' roar going up, complete silence on top, cough-puke-spit-smoke when positive again. Huge fun.
What makes a Cub a great stol performer is also what makes it suck at aerobatics - Dissipates energy very quickly.
Most aerobatic manouvers are preceded by a dive to build energy. A good clean aerobatic manouver is also an excersize in energy conservation. Cubs, (sounds like Sterman too) run out of energy half way thru a manouver, not a comforting situation to be in.
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Reading through this thread just makes me smile!!
you can’t!!!.....you shouldn’t!!!..... and then there’s Glenn..... Man I hope one day I get to meet up with you someday. Clint