adding interest and complexity to Sportsman ... again and again and

[Ron Van Putte]

On Jan 6, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Dean Pappas wrote:

> Ohmigosh, no ... that's not what I meant: I would never have wanted to 
> drag up an old unpleasant bit, like that.
> It's much more funny when you can laugh at someone anonymous!
>  
> Nope, I'm talking about one morning when you, John Fuqua and I were 
> judging the Sportsmen.
> One of the pilots was doing a magnificent job of butchering the 
> schedule, when he got to the last maneuver: the dreaded 3 Horizontal 
> Rolls.
> At just about roll 2, you leaned over and muttered, "here goes" and 
> sure enough, at roll 2-1/2 the poor pilot's processor went BZZZTTTT, 
> a wisp of blue smoke poured out of one ear, and the elevator stick 
> went all the way back. The Earth shook as it impacted just about 25 
> yards ahead of us.
> We felt it in our feet.
>  
> That's not all ... about 1/2 hour later, we took the 250 foot walk to 
> the water jug, and met my kid brother and Darlene Fredericks.
> They were on the next line, another 250 feet down the runway with 
> Verne Altamirano.
> Over a cup of cold water, they asked if we had felt the ground shake, 
> and did we know what it was!
> Of course we told 'em!

I had completely forgotten about that!

> Then there was the time you presented me with those knee pads. I still 
> have them.

If you think I'm going to explain that, you are mistaken!  You're on 
your own.

Ron Van Putte

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discussion-request at nsrca.org 
> [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Ron Van Putte
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:13 PM
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> Subject: Re: adding interest and complexity to Sportsman ... again and 
> again and
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 6, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Dean Pappas wrote:
>
>
>   Oh yes, 3 rolls is infinitely more useful for teaching "elevator 
> timing" than 2.  You can fake it for 2, but the 3rd one requires that 
> the plane be under control after 2.
> Hey Ron van Putte ... you out there?
> Tell the man about the time the Earth shook in Lake Charles!
>
>
>
>  Yes, I'm here. What Dean referred to here was my infamous crash at 
> the Nats. This was back in the days when some radios were having 3rd 
> order IM problems. I was on the center line of three lines along the 
> same runway. I was flying a JR Century 7 on channel 40. We started the 
> day's flying with the guy two ahead of me crashing on channel 40. The 
> next guy went up, also on channel 40, and he crashed too. I went up 
> and the radio failed to respond as my airplane was vertical in a 
> reverse Cuban 8 as I was setting up to enter the pattern. It went in 
> absolutely vertical directly in front of the flightline to my left. I 
> handed the pin to the guy behind me and said, "Let's see what kind of 
> ba!!s you have". He wisely refused to fly. When I got to the other 
> flightline to retrieve the wreckage, Dave Brown said to me, "Your 
> engine never sounded better!" I guess Dean was there too.
>
>
>  Ron Van Putte
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