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What aircraft did you learn to fly in?

Posted on March 15, 2012 by admin| 13 Comments

I learned to fly in a 1946 Talyorcraft. At the time I hated that plane. It had separate brake pedals from the rudder pedals, but that didn’t matter because the brakes didn’t work. When ever I flew it solo I had to wrap a tie down chain to the tail wheel when I propped it (I know dangerous as hell). My flight instructor weighed about 75 lbs more than me, so it was a whole different flight when he was in or out of the plane. No radio, just a handheld, and of the instruments it had I think the airspeed and altimeter were the only ones that worked correctly.

I hated that plane at the time, now I wish I had one :-)

I am curious what some of the pilots in here learned in, and what they ended up doing as pilots later on.

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when i wasyoung i remeber a cartoon film about a boy lost in space with a radio to talk to people looking4him?

Posted on October 31, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

this film was about 20 to 25 years ago i dont remember much about it other than it was animated the boy was lost in space and i remember that he was on a ship that crashed on a planet and it was attacked by big flying beetles but he managed to get away. The other things i remember was that he was always talking into a radio to someone called mike i think and that his parents were searching space for him and i think someone possibly his dad was captured by aliens that looked like they were birds and tied him up with what looked like organic fleshy rope. Thats just about all i can remember apart from the fact that i dont think it had a very happy ending and it was the first time i cried at a film. If someone could help answer this i would be very grateful as this has been slowly driving me mad for most of my life and it is an itch that i would like to scratch desperatly. Thanks

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What aircraft did you learn to fly in?

Posted on August 22, 2010 by admin| 13 Comments

I learned to fly in a 1946 Talyorcraft. At the time I hated that plane. It had separate brake pedals from the rudder pedals, but that didn’t matter because the brakes didn’t work. When ever I flew it solo I had to wrap a tie down chain to the tail wheel when I propped it (I know dangerous as hell). My flight instructor weighed about 75 lbs more than me, so it was a whole different flight when he was in or out of the plane. No radio, just a handheld, and of the instruments it had I think the airspeed and altimeter were the only ones that worked correctly.

I hated that plane at the time, now I wish I had one :-)

I am curious what some of the pilots in here learned in, and what they ended up doing as pilots later on.

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