[Rhodes22-list] Airshow film

[brad haslett]

Bob,

That's the one.  It started out as rain, then freezing
rain, then snow with about 30 knot winds.  The State
Police advised everyone not to go to work and if you
did, only call them if there's a fatality or serious
injury.  We didn't get the word.  It took two hours to
get from the North Side of Lambert to our hotel on the
South side.  Like all good "war stories" whether about
sailing or flying there is a "stupidity" factor
involved if you dig deep enough. I called the braking
action NIL which shut the airport down for about an
hour but they re-opened it for TWA's morning bank of
flights.  The TWA boys were saying things like, "poor
at best", "less than poor", anything but NIL.  When
two slid off in the dirt the dreaded "N" word came
out.  

When I worked as an apprentice mechanic during high
school, one of the local cropdusters would abuse
locals at the airport who didn't know his trick. 
Every Spring they would fill the hoppers with water
and fly up and down the runway several times
calibrating the spray booms.  If anyone was standing
in the open they would bomb them with any remaining
water via the emergency dump valve.  A hundred gallons
of water moving at a hundred MPH would probably kill
you.  They never scored a direct hit but they sure
scared a lot of folks.  I always stayed in the hangar
until they were done.

A lot of things have changed.  You'd go to jail for
some of those old stunts now.

Brad


--- Bob Weber <ruba1811 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Brad, 12/19/95 was that the Ice storm that covered
> the whole city about a 
> 1/4 inch deep?  I thought I was going to be killed
> by a sea plane on take 
> off once.  Cleared my mast by 2 feet, dripped water
> on us.  That was a 
> deliquent act by some *@#.  I work with a guy who
> used to fly open cockpit 
> planes out of St. Louis (parks) back in the 70s. 
> They used to steal bowling 
> balls and drop thiem into lakes to scare fishermen. 
> I would think a bowling 
> ball would take out a R-22.  Things are a little
> differnt nowadays.  Bob
> 
> >From: brad haslett <flybrad at yahoo.com>
> >Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Airshow film
> >Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:59:18 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Bob,
> >
> >Your package was damaged?  Oh yeah, I was off that
> >day.
> >
> >  The last twenty years of flying have been preety
> >sedate.  If you remember December 19th, 1995 in St.
> >Louis, (the Missouri State Police ordered everyone
> to
> >stay home) I took a 727 sidways down runway 30R at
> >Lambert Field.  TWA put two DC-9's in the infield
> >about and hour later.  That was the only time in my
> >career I called in "scared".
> >
> >If you were sailing on your home lake in the early
> >70's and had a little airplane head straight for
> your
> >mainsail, pull-up at the last second, and make a
> >second pass - Yep, Guilty!
> >
> >Brad
> >
> >--- Bob Weber <ruba1811 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks brad, Is that how you fly?  It explains
> > > recent package damage I have
> > > had.  Bob
> > >
> > > >From: brad haslett <flybrad at yahoo.com>
> > > >Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> > > <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > > >To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> > > >Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Airshow film
> > > >Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:13:09 -0700 (PDT)
> > > >
> > > >Folks:
> > > >
> > > >If you have a high-speed internet connection
> great,
> > > if
> > > >not, it's
> > > >a big download so start it and walk away for a
> > > while
> > > >until it finishes. This is pretty neat to
> watch.
> > > >
> > > >Turn up the sound.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>http://www.atcbox.com/Downloads/Movies/Aerobatics/RedBull_Airrace_2004_Budapest.wmv
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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