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Old January 13th 04, 12:41 AM
Pat Thronson
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What approx. agl was AF1, any videos?

Pat thronson
ps Jim, obviously your 182 made the trip ok? I did not here you honk as you
went over lol.



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It wasn't so much the low pass, but the wing dip to the monument that got

me.

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-Hey, the AF1 low-pass made my day.

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Old January 13th 04, 01:41 AM
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I'd guess that AF1 was somewhere between 700 and 1000 agl -- how about it, Ron?
The sheer size of that 747 makes it difficult to judge hat.



No, the 182 stayed in the barn. There is a name for people who don't like the
weather they see and just HAVE to be somewhere on a particular day. The word is
"dead".

I ran into some crap going around Salt Lake, and again around Kansas City that
would have brought the 182 to his knees...and me with him. I worked too hard on
that tin whore to turn him into beer cans that easily.

And, thinking we'd outrun the bugger coming home, we almost went off the road on
I-40 in Flagstaff with the same sort of clag.

Could we have made it? I'd have given you 99% that we would have, juking around
this and that end of the stuff. It is that last 1% that is going to get you,
and that is to be studiously avoided.

The Bronco did just fine, thank you.

Jim



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-Pat thronson
-ps Jim, obviously your 182 made the trip ok? I did not here you honk as you
-went over lol.

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Old January 13th 04, 03:39 AM
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"Pat Thronson" wrote in message t...
What approx. agl was AF1, any videos?


Well the sucker is big, so it probably looked lower than it really was. I'd guess about 1000'

 




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