Colin: I was riding in a friends Bell 47 GB3 the other day and I looked at
him and he had both hands up adjusting the visor on his helmet. Needless to
say my right hand got awfully close to the cyclic while he fooled around.
Can you provide instruction on chewing gun and hovering? Do you look
further out or in close? It would help avoid fatigue in my jaw muscles and
at least that is one set of muscles to start on. Some of the others are
going to require special attention.

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Kathy Fields
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Inyokern, CA 93527
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"COLIN LAMB" wrote in message
.net...
I know a guy who flies a Fokker Triplane and he says if you let go of
the controls and leave it to its own devices it slews off into a left
wing down sideslip and will stay like that all the way to the ground.

Helicopters will not fly themselves, either. But, after awhile, you just
get used to it. Pretty soon, you can chew gum while you fly. I even
figured out how to change channels on the radio.

The scale Neuport that I saw was beautiful - but it had a horizontal bar
right in front of the dash and I could not help but wonder where that
would
be if the airplane stopped flying before my head did.

Colin