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Somewhere over the Rainbow
Introduction to a dream…
I am learning how to fly. I just had my first official flying lesson (logged that is) in a 1955 SUPERCUB! I’ve had a few hours (not logged) in some other little taildraggers and wouldn’t know what to do with a nose wheel if it goosed me in the A** Hell no!! I’m not CLEAR!!! Please don’t get that thing started NOW!
When I knew that my first time up in the front seat (not JUST the RIGHT seat) would be in a SUPERCUB I started feverously searching for information about this fabulous bird. Before long, I had stumbled into the hallowed corridors of SUPERCUB.ORG 8) and found a veritable treasure-trove of priceless information and shared experiences THEN, I came across the musings of a certain CloudDancer… and before long, say about the first paragraph or so… I just KNEW I was getting into trouble.
By the time I went up for my “maiden” flight, I’d read all of the Chronicles and had been flying in my mind in places far more challenging than I was ever likely to encounter on my first “introductory flight” into the land of sunshine I was so excited upon returning to earth (ink still WET on the first ENTRY into my VIRGINAL logbook) I sort of skidded and blurted out on CloudDancer’s thread discussing a whole ‘nuther “first time” http://www.supercub.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=12660
Before I spin completely out of control here, I’m gonna lower my nose and kick some hard rudder and tell you how I got my tail up in the air in the first place. It all starts with a DREAM!
for real,
Songbird in the Land of Sunshine
I am learning how to fly. I just had my first official flying lesson (logged that is) in a 1955 SUPERCUB! I’ve had a few hours (not logged) in some other little taildraggers and wouldn’t know what to do with a nose wheel if it goosed me in the A** Hell no!! I’m not CLEAR!!! Please don’t get that thing started NOW!
When I knew that my first time up in the front seat (not JUST the RIGHT seat) would be in a SUPERCUB I started feverously searching for information about this fabulous bird. Before long, I had stumbled into the hallowed corridors of SUPERCUB.ORG 8) and found a veritable treasure-trove of priceless information and shared experiences THEN, I came across the musings of a certain CloudDancer… and before long, say about the first paragraph or so… I just KNEW I was getting into trouble.
By the time I went up for my “maiden” flight, I’d read all of the Chronicles and had been flying in my mind in places far more challenging than I was ever likely to encounter on my first “introductory flight” into the land of sunshine I was so excited upon returning to earth (ink still WET on the first ENTRY into my VIRGINAL logbook) I sort of skidded and blurted out on CloudDancer’s thread discussing a whole ‘nuther “first time” http://www.supercub.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=12660
dreamer said:Me 'n' my shadow got separated today... For the first time in ages, not stuck onto one part of me or another like confetti after the big parade... Not really all that hard, but just a little tricky, strapping myself into the big thing with wings and barreling down a long straight stretch of flatland faster and faster as UP comes the tail and she LEAPS into the air and all of a sudden, she is UP and THERE'S my poor shadow, running along on the ground below trying to follow me still and here I am, flying around with NO shadow touching ANY part of me anywhere . Air smooth as glass, river and lakes all sparkly below, far away clouds shaking off colors of the morning sun like water off a dog. Stick and rudder JUST like in dreams and JUST like Wolfgang wrote (well kinda), only this time I am IN the pilot's seat! Whoo-hoo!! With an ace pilot instructing me, in a beautiful 1955 PA-18 SUPERCUB!! Logged my very first "official" hour in the log book this morning
How 'bout them rites of passage, eh? One moment, all dressed in virginal white, an unwritten page, a story still yet to be told, just ACHING to be touched... One simple entry later... Oh Baby! I WANT MORE!!
LuLu
Before I spin completely out of control here, I’m gonna lower my nose and kick some hard rudder and tell you how I got my tail up in the air in the first place. It all starts with a DREAM!
for real,
Songbird in the Land of Sunshine