[Rhodes22-list] My other "boat"

[Brad Haslett]

Hank,

During my younger, braver days (high school), I used to buzz sailboats
on Carlyle Lake, Bob Weber's home waters in Southern Illinois. It was fun to
pull up and circle to see if they reacted.  Most of my friends were farm
boys and they got the open tractors while their dad's had the cabs.  They
couldn't hear a thing, so I'd sneak up behind them at head level and scare
the wits out of them.  They'd leave a big squiggle in the field which seldom
went unnoticed by their dads. On one of the many occasions I skipped school,
I flattened my PE class on the exercise field.  They gave me a suspension
which meant I didn't have to skip school on those day.  Smart thinking!

That was then, I'm happy to get from point A to B now.

Brad


On 10/26/06, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Brad,
>
> What's the old saying, "Any landing you can walk away from is a good
> landing!"
>
> When I was crewing on UH-60s we used to practice low level flight, (Nap of
> the Earth or NOE in Army speak) and occasionally we'd have to clean some
> branches out of the landing gear when we got back to the airbase.  Those
> were some interesting times!
>
> Hank
>
> On 10/26/06, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hank,
> >
> > The common complaint against the V-tail is the "wiggle" in rough air. My
> > solution to that is to not fly in rough air. Other than that, you can't
> > tell
> > the difference between the V and a conventional tail.
> >
> > As to the second question, I can't land it to save my ass.  Well,
> actually
> > I've saved my ass four times but it wasn't pretty.  It will take some
> > practice.  The landing height above touchdown is about 40 feet
> difference
> > between the Bonanza and the DC-10. I horribly over control it, thus, no
> > passengers until I can fly it without embarrassment.
> >
> > Brad
> >
> >
> > On 10/26/06, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Does the v-tail make her squirrelly or harder to handle in certain
> > > conditions?  Can you fly something that weighs less than 100,000
> pounds?
> > >
> > > Hank
> > >
> > > On 10/26/06, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hank,
> > > >
> > > > Don't understand that - I forwarded them from my other e-mail
> address
> > to
> > > > this one and it worked.  Here's three photos I took while the sun
> was
> > > > coming
> > > > up in St. Johns, Arizona.  The wings had quite a bit of frost on
> them
> > > and
> > > > I
> > > > had the pleasure of visiting with some "old heads" while waiting for
> > the
> > > > sun
> > > > to melt the frost.
> > > >
> > > > Brad
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 10/26/06, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Pics didn't come through, Brad.
> > > > >
> > > > > On 10/26/06, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The seller just sent me these pics today.  He
> > > > > > photographed the departure of his "baby" leaving
> > > > > > Prescott for her new home.  This is why I don't own a
> > > > > > second boat. Yet!  Brad
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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> > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > > > > From: Vtailflier at aol.com
> > > > > > To: flybrad at yahoo.com
> > > > > > Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:35:28 EDT
> > > > > > Subject: pics
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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