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To: Yosemitest

My husband does this in a Pitts Model 12.

I refuse to go up in it.


28 posted on 02/12/2014 7:54:21 AM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: Aria
I was at Plattsburgh AFB in 1987 and we had an Air Show going own with the ''current event" being a rapid bomb loading display of an FB-111 on the ramp.
I was working Local, when a civilian Pitts Special called up and wanted to do a short display over the runway.
I approved it, and he come in over the runway at about 100 ft and climbed into a vertical 360 and then spiraled out in a climb and did a short right turn and came back in to do a "Hammerhead" climb, stall, slide backwards and recover.
Then he climbed back out and departed over Lake Champlain.
Needless to say the "bomb loading display" wasn't watch very closely.
SAC Command Post called up and wanted to cause trouble.
I called and demanded the Base Ops Officer write a Letter of Appreciation and Thanks" to the civilian Pilot in the Pitts Special, and he did.
I laughed about getting the best of the SAC Command Post for years after that.
31 posted on 02/12/2014 8:13:08 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Aria
Watch Patty Wagstaff perform in her Extra 300S during the third day of the 2013 Virginia Beach Patriotic Festival Air Show..
36 posted on 02/12/2014 8:45:51 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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