[NSRCA-discussion] Happy New Year

[Ron Van Putte]

All this stuff about my old age is beginning to bother me.  I am not  
old; I've just been around for a while.

BTW, if the truth be told, Jon Lowe IS old; he's less than 20 years  
younger than me.

It is not true that I knew Marconi personally.

Ron VP

On Jan 8, 2009, at 9:14 AM, Jon Lowe wrote:

> Unfortunately, I'm old enough to remember the "brake of the week"  
> to successfully complete the taxi back to hanger maneuver.  There  
> were actually drum brakes with phenolic brake shoes available that  
> worked about as well as you'd expect on a nose wheel soaked by oil  
> from fuel.  Later came partially self actuating springs wrapped  
> around a drum turned by the nose wheel, pulled on by a piece of  
> monofilament fishing line actuated by the elevator servo on down  
> elevator.  By the time I first flew pattern, that "maneuver" was  
> thankfully gone.
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> Speaking of old manuevers, at one time a power dive was in the  
> pattern sequence.  Yep, a straight down dive under full power, sort  
> of the opposite of the vertical line on center in the current  
> sportsman routine.  More than a few airplanes met their maker with  
> elevator flutter ripping off the tail.
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> Now remember, I was born very young, so all of this happened when I  
> was about -10 years old, and Ron was already about 50!
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> Jon Lowe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Van Putte <vanputte at cox.net>
> To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> Sent: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 6:21 pm
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Happy New Year
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> Yeah, and the landing and taxi back to the box were scored too.   
> That was right after dirt was invented, but before the round wheel  
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> Ron VP
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