<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><P dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">--- On <B>Thu, 1/8/09, Jon Lowe <I><jonlowe@aol.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<P dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">>>>Now remember, I was born very young, so all of this happened when I was <BR>about -10 years old, and Ron was already about 50!<<<</DIV>
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<P dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">LOL!</DIV>
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<P dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">>>>Later came partially self actuating springs wrapped around a drum <BR>turned by the nose wheel, pulled on by a piece of monofilament fishing <BR>line actuated by the elevator servo on down elevator.<<<</DIV>
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<P dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">I actually had a set of those on a Royal Cessna 310. Circa 1975. I could taxi out, lock the brakes (one on each main gear), run the engines (two K&B .40s) up to 1/2 throttle to clear the engines before commencing takeoff. I was 17 at the time. ;-)</DIV>
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<P dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">Bob R.<BR><BR><BR></DIV></td></tr></table>