"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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"John S. Shinal" wrote in
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote:

A self inspired night checkout in the average warbird would kill all
but
the
most "inspired" I can assure you!! :-)))

"All right, time to rotate...hmmm...what the...why can't I...
AAAGH ! The gust locks !"

PRANG ! Boom.

Actually..... saw a guy do something almost as bad once. He had a
Tri-Pacer.
We were all watching through the window of the flight office as he taxied
out with a rather large concrete block trailing along behind him tied to
his
tail. We yelled at him on the radio, but naturally he didn't have THAT
on!!!
So we all climbed on the field pickup truck and raced across the field
after
him. We caught up to him while he was doing his runup. To this day, when
some of us get together and remember this, we bust out laughing thinking
what must have been going through his mind when he saw about fifteen
people
hanging onto a bouncing pickup truck coming directly at him shouting and
waving like a bunch of banshees!!
He told us he nearly **** a brick!!! THAT REALLY broke us up!!!!!

Maybe someone else can provide the specific details but....... once upon a
time a visiting foreign fighter pilot to Australia attempted to land with
his gear up, on his belly tank!

Would have loved to watch that........at a safe distance.

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