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To: TokarevM57

And with a headwind you can actually fly backwards lol


18 posted on 03/08/2023 10:08:21 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: DariusBane

...you know it.....!! one time, flying over the mountains of western Virginia, I was facing a headwind that just about made my ground speed zero....! that was quite a trip..and, of course, the fuel tank started leaking, dripping a bit of 87-octane fuel on the wooden flooring underneath it....


22 posted on 03/08/2023 10:13:14 AM PST by TokarevM57
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To: DariusBane

I actually did fly backwards in a J-3 at Galveston TX airport


23 posted on 03/08/2023 10:15:14 AM PST by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and even n the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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