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Thread: [Acro] Re: Landing Pitts

Message: [Acro] Re: Landing Pitts

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From: Larry Lowe <webmaster at airspacemag.com>

Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 13:51:45 UTC

Message:

  

ACCassidy at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Eighteen feet, eighteen feet. You lucky, lucky bas****s. When we were kids,
> we were so poor we had to land on a strip that was only six inches wider than
> the wheels. And there was a drop on each side, into a pit full of sharks. It
> was downhill in both directions and there was always a 25-knot crosswind...
> 
> Tee hee


That's nothing.

Back where I come from, the strip was just like yours, but only a mere
four inches wider than the wheels.

And covered with ice....

Larry Lowe