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Thread: [Acro] Re: Landing Pitts

Message: [Acro] Re: Landing Pitts

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From: "Max Braude" <skybird at optushome.com.au>

Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 14:42:52 UTC

Message:

  Monty Python still rules!

No he doesn't

The 5 minute argument

No the 30 minute

etc

Max Braude
skybird at optushome.com.au


-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Lowe [mailto:webmaster at airspacemag.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 11:48 PM
To: acro at gf24.de
Cc: acro at gf24.de
Subject: [Acro] Re: Landing Pitts




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