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To: Vaquero

Unless it is a headwind.

Recall watching some little spotter type plane in SE Asia take off into a stiff wind. Hardly started rolling before rising up like an elevator, almost no forward progress.


18 posted on 02/09/2020 3:50:58 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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To: doorgunner69

Flew Delta to Tucson from JFK last February. The pilot went up to high cruising altitude then had to drop down to around 25.000 ft due to turbulence. Then the pilot came on the speaker. Explaining that they would have to land in Albuquerque because they were running low of fuel due to the thick air at lower altitudes.

I suggested to my fellow passengers that maybe we should chip in for gas.


21 posted on 02/09/2020 4:02:38 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: doorgunner69

On a windy day in Santa Barbara I watched what I think was a Fieseler Storch do touch and goes using virtually no runway. He’d lift straight up, get blown back a bit and land.


34 posted on 02/09/2020 4:17:41 PM PST by hanamizu
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