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BobFV1
02-22-2006, 06:35 PM
I just got to tell you, man, that is a nice hat in your avatar. :thumbs_up:

Give us the story...
MRB
02-22-2006, 06:58 PM
Hi Bob

I used to fly. Got my commercial at 19 but quit around 25 (long story). Anyway a year or so ago my good wife gave me a birthday surprise with a flight in a Tiger Moth from a little strip near the Gold Coast here (Queensland Australia). That is where the hat photo was taken.
Anway the pilot did a barrel roll followed by a tight loop and I felt terrible. I mean I used to do aerobatics when I was 25 but at 56 the G forces etc made me feel really ill. My wife nearly had to drive the car on the way home.
Deans BMW
02-22-2006, 07:03 PM
A flight in a Tiger Moth, be still my heart, what I wouldn't give for such a ride.
DarthRider
02-22-2006, 07:18 PM
A Peckerhead bud took me up in his 1934 Fleet biplane trainer last year. Same helmet & goggles! It's aerobatic too but he didn't do anything as he didn't want to stress the old 5-cyl. radial.
Damn I love old airplanes!

Dave
MRB
02-23-2006, 12:00 AM
Hi Guys
We don't seem to have a real shortage of Moths here. See the attached line up from a local "fly in".
Also a scale Spitfire with a Chevvy auto engine and a beautifully restored Boomerang - an Australian built and desiged WW2 fighter which was aparently no match at all for the Zero. The last image is what I believe to be an American built biplane?
Martin
MidlifeMark
02-23-2006, 05:19 AM
At first glance, I'd say that was a Stearman (BT-13?)
BobFV1
02-23-2006, 08:31 AM
That settles it - we need to have a Peckerhead fly/ride-in event! Only open to participants with two wheels or two sets of wings!
MidlifeMark
02-23-2006, 06:57 PM
Count me in! But be sure to give me enough notice if it's in Texas, so I can get my visa application in and get all of the required immunizations.
JCsman
02-23-2006, 09:30 PM
Man, you guys hit a sweet spot here. In my youth I took lessons in Cessna 152's, Piper Commanches and an Aeronca Champ (flip prop, no radio, cork and wire gas guage, uncontrolled grass field - $15/hr wet with instructor!). Just a handful of hours gained from precious few dollars.

Then came babies. No more air boy for me. More than a fair trade, I must admit. But I'm still a sucker for an airplane. My $0.02....a rally near an airshow would add at least one state to the distance I plan for. Something with the Confederate Air Force would probably add two.

But you've got to be careful leaving your bikes unattended and parked near the planes. Or else....

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