Hi John;
I have a bit of time in the Jug, but not much. I ferried an N out of a small
field in South America and up into the states once a while back. What a hog!
Very good rate of roll above 250 and a pleasure to land if you didn't drag
it in.

The word is that the Major is doing just fine on the right wing.
I take it by saying it's the easy position, you mean you flew wing on the
right side to an element lead and in the old fighting wing.
Now a days we use a wide combat spread with lead changes based on who sees
what first. Either side can go wing or lead in a heartbeat.
Hope your shoulder comes along and gets better for you.
Dudley

"Big John" wrote in message
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Dudley

Some more trivia.

In Jug if you got to limiting Mach the bird tucked and could not be
stopped with elevator or reduction of power.

Procedure was to go to full power (guess this gave some airflow over
elevator and let you slowly pull the nose to a lessor angle of dive
where air resistance continued to slow bird down and you regained full
control.

This was all in ground school in RTU so never went up and tried it out
)

I only saw the initial announcement of the gal in T-birds and nothing
since.

Guess they put her on the easy wing (I could fly a lot smoother and
closer on right wing with less work than left wing which took more
careful control movement).

Hope she does good for the grueling airshow circuit which takes a lot
out of you.

My shoulder is the rotator cuff that I fell on a year ago. Doc said he
had never seen one so torn up and he has been doing them for years.

The best to everyone (even the lurkers )


Big John
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On Fri, 19 May 2006 00:37:31 GMT, "Dudley Henriques"
wrote:

Hi John;
Hope all's been well with you and yours.


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