[NSRCA-discussion] Happy New Year

[Pete Cosky]

How about Orville Wright? He would have died when you were 13.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Van Putte" <vanputte at cox.net>
To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Happy New Year


> Geez, how do I answer this?  Marconi died two years after I was born,  
> but I was eight years old when Tesla died.  I didn't know either of  
> them!
> 
> Ron VP
> 
> On Jan 8, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Bob Kane wrote:
> 
>> How about Tesla?
>>
>> Bob Kane
>> getterflash at yahoo.com
>>
>>
>> From: Ron Van Putte <vanputte at cox.net>
>> To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2009 6:10:37 PM
>> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Happy New Year
>>
>> 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.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > 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!
>> >
>> >
>> > Jon Lowe
>> >
>> >
>> > -----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  
>> was invented.
>> >
>> >
>> > Ron VP
>> >
>> > =0
>> > A
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