Netters: I once got a ride back in '65/6 with a guy in his new Musketeer of the coast of Seal Beach CA. He was using the bouys off shore like gates on a Slalomn course at full throtle and so closeto the water he had to pull up to clear the break-water! I never went with him again. Later that year he lost his license because in the high desert one night he dropped down low over the tracks at an on-coming train, turned on his landing light and rocking the plane to simulate an on-coming train causing the passenger train engineer to dump his air. The engineer reporteded it imediately and they picked the guy up on radar easily as he was the only plane around. When he landed at Long Beach the airport security met him when he turned off the active and arested him on the spot.
Don ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Faughn wrote: > OK, This reminds me of the time I was flying formation with a Long EZ up the > Merimac River at about the same or lower altitude. He pulled up and I went > on to "buzz" the campground where a number of friends were camped. We woke > them up. I pulled up to about 1000 feet AGL and then did a circle and went > back down on them and back down the river. I don't think they got my numbers > because I never heard about it "officially". This was more fun than...... > Responsible, well I never was in a position to kill them or me. FUN, I have > to tell you, that once you fly over a place and then go back down at the > level of cleaning off your wheel pants, it is too cool. Then there is > another story, when I took one of my best friends, who has now passed away > because of prostate cancer and one of the best reasons of going cruising on > by boat, down the Missouri River. We dropped down at water level between the > two cliffs covered with trees and flew up the river. We pulled up when we > got to the tug pushing barges and figured he really didn't want to be buzzed > at more than 50 feet. No numbers seen then either. I'm not saying that you > should actually do this with your KR but have you lived yet????? It is > really too cool. I won't go into the story of when I was trying to learn to > fly the KR and went for a ride with Dan Diehl and we were pulling up for > cows and then had to turn to a 45 degree bank to get through two trees > before dropping back on the deck. I guess I had a "good" teacher. > > With that said, fly as safe as your skills allow..... > > Jim (Last Name Withheld) > N891J something > > -----Original Message----- > From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net] On Behalf > Of Larry&Sallie Flesner > Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 7:51 PM > To: KRnet > Subject: KR> video > > The C-195 pilot sent me the following web address. Check out > the amazing video. If you get dizzy easily or have just eaten, you > might want to wait a bit before viewing. Turn up the audio for the > song "tree top flier" overlaid on the video. > > http://www.experimentalpilots.com/anrr.wmv > > Larry Flesner > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
