RE: Oh, shit! This is an expensive new hobby, OMFG !
August 21, 2016 at 10:37 pm
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2016 at 10:39 pm by vorlon13.)
(August 16, 2016 at 1:55 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Really? I'd pay good money to fly in. P-51 and the Stearman is classic fun.
Too small for you?
Well . . . .
Got brave and signed up for a ride in the Stearman.
Oh my. It is just completely different sensation. The feeling of being at a great height was nearly overwhelming. I didn't expect that, and have never felt it before except on ladders. Not even the (damn) helicopter ride back in '79 felt like that. We took off and headed north and despite the pilot saying the plane wasn't that powerful (top speed was well under 100 mph) it seemed to climb eagerly.
Higher.
and higher.
When we headed back I felt somewhat better. The pilot offered me the stick, I told him he was doing fine with it as far as I was concerned. The view was certainly overwhelming, we've had good rain this year so everything is still green (most years we are pretty brown by now). I considered going again, I think a little more familiarization with it would have been helpful, but I had a conflicting thought, maybe spend the money on a different plane instead so went up on the C-45.
That was interesting . . . .
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