AviationBanter - View Single Post - LAX Today - 10/18/10 plus some OT [07/13]

**Jess Lurkin** · October 18th 10, 08:40 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation

(the Legend of LAX) wrote in
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Thanks for posting these "Goony-bird" pics. Unlike some of the
old-hands in this group, I was only able to fly once in one.

I think it was in about '78 -'79 a *very* small charter outfit
called "Red Carpet Airlines" operating out of Florida. A group
of scuba divers, of which I am one, went to Cayman Brac by way of
a DC-3.

It was a memorable trip for many reasons. I remember looking at
the plate on the bulkhead noting that "my girl" was built in 1939.
The entire trip we seemed to be traveling on an incline of about
15 - 20 degrees. There will never be a sound as sweet as a couple
of well-tuned, well-running radials.

We were also able to fly the corridor across Cuba which gave us a
bird's-eye view of the Bay of Pigs. Also noted was many details and
conditions of Castro's Communist "Paradise." sheeeesh!

Saw my first "blue-out" in the Caymans ...Realizing that the water
depth in which I was diving was greater than the altitude which
we flew. At a depth of about 80' I saw a Brac Crab which would make
about 20 of those Alaskan "King" Crabs.

He scared me worse than I scared him.

Sure am glad to have flown on the old girl and to have born in
the U.S. of A. instead of Koober.