Is anyone else secretly glad...

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



"Pat Thronson"
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-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.

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

"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'

In article , Ron Natalie wrote:
Hey, the AF1 low-pass made my day.

I wonder...if you attached a propellor to each Wright Brother, who were
undoubtedly spinning in their graves at around 2300 rpm over the TFR
which grounded all GA flights within $BIGNUM square miles around Kill
Devil Hills...would it create enough thrust to get a Beech Baron
airborne?

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

Every flying magazine felt compelled (naturally) to write extensively
about
the Wright Brothers for the past year, to the point where I simply didn't
want to read another article about them... Each magazine seemed to be
struggling to top the others in hyperbole and hoopla, and I guess I
experienced "Wright Overload"...

Of course, the greatest irony of all is that Richard Pearce beat them by the
best part of a year.

K9 Lover wrote:

Of course, the greatest irony of all is that Richard Pearce beat them by the
best part of a year.

Prove it.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

in article , G.R. Patterson III at
wrote on 1/12/04 10:31 PM:



K9 Lover wrote:

Of course, the greatest irony of all is that Richard Pearce beat them by the
best part of a year.

Prove it.

His actual name was Pearse, not Pearce. He himself conceded the first
"controlled" flight to the Wright Bros., since all of his early efforts
ended in crashes.

The most difficult thing about ascertaining Pearse's accomplishments is that
there is very little reliable eyewitness testimony. It seems to be limited
mostly to locals and schoolchildren who happened to be watching, and they
can seldom agree on exact dates.

"K9 Lover" wrote in message
...
Every flying magazine felt compelled (naturally) to write extensively
about
the Wright Brothers for the past year, to the point where I simply
didn't
want to read another article about them... Each magazine seemed to be
struggling to top the others in hyperbole and hoopla, and I guess I
experienced "Wright Overload"...

Of course, the greatest irony of all is that Richard Pearce beat them by
the
best part of a year.

And Gustav Weisskopf (Gustave Whitehead) by 2 years. Maybe.

http://www.deepsky.com/~firstflight/
http://www.brucemuseum.org/whitehead.html

Paul

"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Anyone else see the current article on the G1000 in Flying Mag?
What a panel!)


Yes, and I thought it was very impressive. One thing I noted, that I
thought they made a great decision on, was making the user interface for
the GPS the same as the 430/530. Learning the operating concept and paging
structure for these systems has got to be one of the biggest challenges,
and for Garmin to realize that they are the default "industry standard" has
got to make the transition a no-brainer.

Mike

I got a review copy of One Hundred Years of Military Aviation, or some
such title from Naval Institute Press. I asked the book review guy at
Air & Space if he wanted a review. He replied: "I'm pretty much
hundreded out."


all the best -- Dan Ford
email:

see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com
and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com

In article 8%xMb.33441$8H.76115@attbi_s03,
Jay Honeck wrote:
...that the 100th anniversary of flight is finally past?

Why no, Jay, you are not *secretly* glad, you just posted it to a huge
forum! No, I'm not secretly glad, yeah, that's the ticket.

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/