Slightly Off Topic: Flying Pattern at Night

[Keith Black]

David,  As I recall you were having trouble seeing the plane during daylight hours at New Waverly :-)  

I have seen people fly at night, but not with pattern planes!

Keith
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  From: Gray E Fowler 
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  Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 11:57 AM
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  Dave 

  You must have been drinking....Was Tom there? What about the spider monkey?



  Gray Fowler
  Principal Chemical Engineer
  Composites Engineering 


       "David Sweatt" <dsweatt at hotmail.com> 
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        09/23/2002 10:40 AM 
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  It's slightly off topic but I thought I would share this story.
  This weekend I was at a large heli-funfly and it is a big thing to fly
  helicopters with nightblades and nightropes and such.
  Well I had my beater FedEx 2meter bird in the truck, and for some reason we 
  got the crazy idea to strap night rope and glow tubes to it.
  It looked really cool all lit up and I have to admit I was really nervous 
  but I took off and flew around abit to get used to it, and being that your 
  so used to flying the pattern I proceeded to fly the entire Sportsman 
  sequence at about 12:45 AM! It was really cool cause even when I would kinda 
  of loose it, due to muscle memory I guess or knowing where to move the 
  sticks cause you practice it all the time it worked out great. The landing 
  was interesting cause you couldn't see the ground but it came in just fine 
  and I didn't even break the prop!
  I got pretty good video of it too..anyway thanks for letting me share my 
  story..David Sweatt


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