Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/02

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Subject: [Leica] "Da plane boss"
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Wed May 2 15:38:51 2007
References: <4638B28C.2010104@suddenlink.net> <4cfa589b0705020959g6b658714p5ea5b69aa1bbc3b9@mail.gmail.com> <4638DF28.7030409@suddenlink.net> <4638D39D.2030700@waltjohnson.com> <00a601c78d00$82beb080$6101a8c0@jimnichols> <46390535.2020604@waltjohnson.com> <013c01c78d03$b61a8c80$6101a8c0@jimnichols> <4639092D.9000906@waltjohnson.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20070502180351.025fca50@comporium.net>

Now I get queasy just thinking about 60 degree banks. Try jumping from 
one to shock those on the ground. :-) 

Tina Manley wrote:
> At 05:57 PM 5/2/2007, you wrote:
>> But at least you know your parachute will open :-)   When I was a kid 
>> a friends dad flew us all over in a Tri Pacer.  Never managed a J-3 
>> ride but did have some fun in a Navy T-28. Talk about radial 
>> engines......
>
> My first flights were in a crop duster.  My father (ACE WWII pilot) 
> was a flight instructor for army aviation but his friends flew crop 
> dusters and he arranged for me to go along when I was about 10.  We 
> did loops and dives and spirals and I was fine but my mother, down on 
> the ground, nearly had a heart attack and wouldn't let me go again. :-(
>
> Tina
>
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