Gave me my first KR flight......will never forget him. RIP mate.
<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Mark Jones via KRnet <krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote: > 1999 at the KR Gathering at Lake Barkley, KY was my first Gathering and > was when I first met Marty. His love of the KR and his uncanny ability to > fly that plane was my inspiration to build my KR. I was already intrigued > with the design but watching Marty perform at Lake Barkley sealed the deal > for me. Two awesome things I remember from that Gathering was when Marty > did a toilet paper drop and maneuvered wildly to see how many times he > could cut the paper before he had to pull up for lack of altitude. There is > a photo of about twenty of us all looking up to watch him with our hands up > in the air blocking the sun so we could see him. It is on this link close > to the bottom. http://www.krnet.org/barkley1999/ Someone named the photo > “Hail to the new wing” but we were actually watching Marty cut the toilet > paper. I also remember watching Marty do a barrel roll on take off as he > was climbing out. What a great inspiration he was. This was one of the best > Gatherings I remember. Then after seven years of building I was close to > flying but had not been on a KR flight yet. Seeing how I am not petite in > stature, folks were leery to take me up. But then it happened at MT Vernon > 2004. Marty said “I’ll take you up”! Marty is a tall fellow and you should > have seed the two of us in his KR. I thought to myself there was no way > this little plane was going to get off the ground with the two of us in > there. Well, it did and what a ride it was. After allowing me to control > the plane for a while Marty said we are going in for a high speed pass. He > dove that little plane toward the approach end at an angle I will never > forget. As he began to level off I thought my eyeballs were going to pop > out of their sockets from the G-force. I remember asking my maker above to > please do not let the wings fold up on us. Just as we leveled out 20 or so > feet above the runway Marty pointed at the airspeed and is was just shy of > 200. I was freaking out thinking what was waiting on me with my own KR > almost ready for flight. Six months later I made my first flight. > Marty, we will never forget. Thanks for the memories. God speed. > > Mark Jones > Oldsmar, FL > > E-mail: flyk...@gmail.com > Web: www.flykr2s.com > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/ > krnet@list.krnet.org/. > Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org >
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