My experience was with Pappy Lyles.He was a P-51 pilot.After training in the states was over and they where ready to ship out to Europe his eyesight kept him from combat.He got lucky and became an instructor and trained GIs up to and including Vietnam.After cropdusting for 35 years with the likes of Booger Red in South Texas and Arkansas he retired and I got a chance to work and fly with the old man.First time I went up side down was with Pappy in his Cessna 140.He was checking me out for a ferry trip to Florida in a single seat biplane he was selling.Will never forget him taking control of the plane,pushing the throttle wide open,pushing the wheel forward until we had 150MPH and doing a loop Bob Hoover would have been proud of.Then as we got level he did it again only this time we rolled out on top.Now I can say yes the cessna 140 will do an imulman[ forgive the spelling].Tommy W.
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Joe. E. Wallace <jwallacep51 at gmail.com>wrote: > Enjoyed it very much.... I have a similar partner... tho' 96 and his > history was a mechanic on the birds, stayed in CA at the training basis > working on Stearmans and PBY's.... WHat A History Lesson... tnx for > sharing... jw > Joe. E. Wallace > jwallacep51 at gmail.com > > > > On Oct 19, 2013, at 8:29 PM, Jeff Scott <jscott.planes at gmx.com> wrote: > > > While this may not be KR related, it is certainly Aviation related. > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options >
