[Rhodes22-list] Old Bold Pilots

[Brad Haslett]

Joe,

Early on I learned having people puke on your airplane is not fun.  No
matter how good the environmental systems the smell wafts to the cockpit
sooner or later. Two spring breaks in a row I took several kids from my
son's fraternity out on the boat for days at a time.  The rule was, you
puke, you clean it up!  No one did but they weren't always accurate with
their aim from other orifices.

Speaking of Grumman, I seriously considered buying a Cheetah, a 150hp fixed
gear single that Grumman built in the 80's.  Grumman sold the division and
the company has been through a series of new owners and bankruptcies.  I
eventually chose speed (at the sacrifice of complexity) over simplicity.
Did Grumman ever build a boat other than a canoe?

Brad

On 10/27/06, Joseph Hadzima <josef508 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Brad
>
> You don't work for Grumman these days do you?  We have
> these old BAC 1-11 jets that we cut off the nose, and slap
> on a F-16/B-1/F-22/xxx radar.  The passenger compatrment
> consistes of several computer workstations and engineers
> runing tests.  The pilots runing the flight test seem to
> not believe a test is complete unless they get at least one
> engineer to use a barf bag (we buy these by the case).
>
> Testing weather modes (you gotta sometimes chase storms 100
> miles out to sea), or those extra fun terain-follow, and my
> favorite terain-advoidance modes, make it too easy
> sometimes.
>
> excuse me, I have to go view our last test flight video now
> :-)
>
> happy Flying!
>
>
> --- Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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