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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 21:32:17 UTC
Every kid an a forest has a slingshot! Max Braude skybird at optushome.com.au -----Original Message----- From: Robert E. Fry [mailto:robfry at ka2.so-net.ne.jp] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 2:27 AM To: spenny at bellatlantic.net Cc: 'acro' Subject: [Acro] Re: Landing Pitts and how did you take off from there. I suppose vertically in your pitts with a 900hp prat and whitney radial? Steve Pennypacker wrote: > Wimps. All of you, wimps! > > In the rainforest I fashioned stone tools to cut a landing zone through the > trees. Lost my arms wrestling a tiger for dinner (he was delicious) when > it was about ten feet wide, so I cleared the low lying brush with my teeth. > Flew the approaches knife-edge, holding the stick with my knees. Landed > on 3 parallel logs to keep the wheels from sinking into the muck. Had to > dodge the purple spotted African spiny six-fingered tree toads that would > invariably perch on the logs. They're endangered you know. > > But the real bitch was refining the crude oil I dug out of the ground to > make fuel. > > > > On Tuesday, May 28, 2002 6:00 AM, Virginia Jacobson > [SMTP:Virginia at odysseypub.com] wrote: > >> I don't know what you guys are complaining about. When I was a kid we >> couldn't even afford a landing strip we had to land in a farmers field >> with the COWS! You don't know what a difficult landing is until you >> get a up close to a Moo Cow........ <G> >> >> Virginia Jacobson >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---------- >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Larry Lowe >> To: acro at gf24.de >> Cc: acro at gf24.de >> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 2:47 PM >> 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 >> >> >> << File: ATT00017.html >> >