<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">How about Tesla?<br><div> </div>Bob Kane<br>getterflash@yahoo.com<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Ron Van Putte <vanputte@cox.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 8, 2009 6:10:37 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Happy New Year<br></font><br>
All this stuff about my old age is beginning to bother me. I am not old; I've just been around for a while.<br><br>BTW, if the truth be told, Jon Lowe IS old; he's less than 20 years younger than me.<br><br>It is not true that I knew Marconi personally.<br><br>Ron VP<br><br>On Jan 8, 2009, at 9:14 AM, Jon Lowe wrote:<br><br>> 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.<br>> <br>> 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.<br>> <br>> 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!<br>> <br>> <br>> Jon Lowe<br>> <br>> <br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: Ron Van Putte <<a ymailto="mailto:vanputte@cox.net" href="mailto:vanputte@cox.net">vanputte@cox.net</a>><br>> To: General pattern discussion <<a ymailto="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>><br>> Sent: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 6:21 pm<br>> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Happy New Year<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>>
<br>> 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.<br>> <br>> <br>> Ron VP<br>> <br>> =0<br>> A<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> NSRCA-discussion mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion" target="_blank">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion"
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