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Old June 12th 07, 10:06 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Bob Moore
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Default Myth: 1 G barrel rolls are impossible.

Dudley Henriques wrote
Steve and I knew each other quite well many years ago when he was a
partner in the old Valley Forge Airport in Pa. His partner had a
French wife you had to see to believe. If I remember right (and who
could forget her..her name was Yvette. :-)


That would have been Norm Hortman....a TWA B-747 Captain, and Yvette
was a former TWA Flight Attendant. Norm would later own the old 3M
airport just north of Philly. He and Yvette had a Part 141 Certificate
and School. I got my CFI/CFII there about 3-4 years after joining
PanAm.

Norm would fly to JFK for his TWA flights in an Aztec. Yvette became an
ATP flying him back and forth. She managed the Part 141 School and was
a real "BITCH".

Some years later, Norm bought the farm when the battery in the Aztec
broke loose in IMC turbulent conditions and started an inflight fire.

Norm was one of the original American AA-1 Yankee distributors and I
was doing some part time work for one of his dealers across the river
at the Burlington, Co. airport. I still have a picture of Norm and myself
and a AA-1.

Bob Moore