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At 22:20 25 March 2011, kirk.stant wrote:
I suggest you inform yourself about the USAFA glider program. You might be surprised. Well, I've been there, talked to them, and competed against them. They were extremely impressive young folks, and fairly good competitive pilots (I got a mild kick out of finishing ahead of one of their officers one of the days I was flying - part of a team). What particularly sticks in my mind, though, is one day after the flying (or maybe we weren't flying because of the wind) when some of the cadets got Vern Hutchinson talking about his experiences as a submariner in WWII. Vern did some amazing things, including infiltrating into Tokyo harbor to see what was going on (he was just crew, not captain or anything like that). Those cadets were hanging on his every word. It was something just to watch it. My club in NJ produced a young kid glider pilot (his father was a doctor, but didn't support Bob's gliding desires - when he was younger, Bob bicycled quite a few miles to the glider field, and the club sort of adopted him. He ended up at the Academy, instructing in gliders, and was flying F-16s over Iraq in the First Bush War. At the time I was there, the cadets were flying a flock of 2-33s, 1-26s for competition, and some big white glass two-seater that they trailered around. One thing you have to say for the Schweizers, I never heard about the AFA having any trouble with them. Jim Beckman |
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