Comments on: There I was, flat on my back… http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/23/there-i-was-flat-on-my-back/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:13:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: OldT6Flyer http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/23/there-i-was-flat-on-my-back/comment-page-1/#comment-378781 OldT6Flyer Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:57:33 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/23/there-i-was-flat-on-my-back/#comment-378781 BTW - that picture I've added was shot at just about the exact spot the Stearman Video posted a few days back was shot... BTW – that picture I’ve added was shot at just about the exact spot the Stearman Video posted a few days back was shot…

]]> By: OldT6Flyer http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/23/there-i-was-flat-on-my-back/comment-page-1/#comment-378779 OldT6Flyer Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:56:05 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/23/there-i-was-flat-on-my-back/#comment-378779 I read that story before. Makes you wonder how many other great flying stories never got recorded from that era. Dear 'Ole Dad told a tale of being on a training flight with a bunch of solo students in the AT-6 during WWII somewhere in the vicinity of Victoria, TX when up among their flight came a bunch of helium balloons, having been released by some celebration by the small town below (maybe it was July 4th as I recall). Whatever rat racing or 1 v 1 dogfight practice they were supposed to be doing quickly evolved into everyone trying to bust the balloons. Seemed it was harder than it looked especially as 3 or 4 birds all convereged on the same balloon at the same time. Aerial "chicken" where that guy who closed his eyes and hung on the longest as the others peeled off in various directions to avoid midairs. Oh to be 19 and to enjoy the escape of contemplating heading overseas in 1944.... Dad said it was a wonder nobody died, or got in any sort of trouble. He always wondered if the folks on the ground looked up and enjoyed the show. Then there was the time he tried to do an outside loop in the T6. Started from the top and just pushed over. Somebody claimed they had done one but I think he was set up from the gitgo.... I read that story before. Makes you wonder how many other great flying stories never got recorded from that era.

Dear ‘Ole Dad told a tale of being on a training flight with a bunch of solo students in the AT-6 during WWII somewhere in the vicinity of Victoria, TX when up among their flight came a bunch of helium balloons, having been released by some celebration by the small town below (maybe it was July 4th as I recall).

Whatever rat racing or 1 v 1 dogfight practice they were supposed to be doing quickly evolved into everyone trying to bust the balloons. Seemed it was harder than it looked especially as 3 or 4 birds all convereged on the same balloon at the same time. Aerial “chicken” where that guy who closed his eyes and hung on the longest as the others peeled off in various directions to avoid midairs.

Oh to be 19 and to enjoy the escape of contemplating heading overseas in 1944….

Dad said it was a wonder nobody died, or got in any sort of trouble. He always wondered if the folks on the ground looked up and enjoyed the show.

Then there was the time he tried to do an outside loop in the T6. Started from the top and just pushed over. Somebody claimed they had done one but I think he was set up from the gitgo….

]]> By: Dust http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/23/there-i-was-flat-on-my-back/comment-page-1/#comment-378776 Dust Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:43:05 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/23/there-i-was-flat-on-my-back/#comment-378776 North American made some pretty good airplanes in it's heyday, the B-25 among them. My flight instructor when I was a kid had instructed in them in the USAF in the early 50s. They were still in use as multiengine trainers then. He related a story to me that when he went thru multiengine training he buzzed his parents' house in Newport, Maine while on a cross country to Dow AFB, ME and blew/knocked over the chimney on the house. Guess that got him instructor duty. Or so he said. R.I.P. Dick. North American made some pretty good airplanes in it’s heyday, the B-25 among them. My flight instructor when I was a kid had instructed in them in the USAF in the early 50s. They were still in use as multiengine trainers then. He related a story to me that when he went thru multiengine training he buzzed his parents’ house in Newport, Maine while on a cross country to Dow AFB, ME and blew/knocked over the chimney on the house. Guess that got him instructor duty. Or so he said. R.I.P. Dick.

]]> By: virgil xenophon http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/23/there-i-was-flat-on-my-back/comment-page-1/#comment-378769 virgil xenophon Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:01:20 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/23/there-i-was-flat-on-my-back/#comment-378769 "An inverted, flat spin." Sounds a lot like the state of our Defense Budget. “An inverted, flat spin.” Sounds a lot like the state of our Defense Budget.

]]> By: lex http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/23/there-i-was-flat-on-my-back/comment-page-1/#comment-378765 lex Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:48:15 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/23/there-i-was-flat-on-my-back/#comment-378765 Me? I'm accepting the possibility that this isn't a picture of the actual, unintentional spin. Because that would have been really fortuitous. Don't you think? Me? I’m accepting the possibility that this isn’t a picture of the actual, unintentional spin. Because that would have been really fortuitous. Don’t you think?

]]> By: Old Pilot http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/23/there-i-was-flat-on-my-back/comment-page-1/#comment-378757 Old Pilot Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:30:48 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/12/23/there-i-was-flat-on-my-back/#comment-378757 If you were in an inverted flat spin why is the top of the plane bright and the bottom dark? And why is there reflection on the front top of the engine nacales? If you were in an inverted flat spin why is the top of the plane bright and the bottom dark? And why is there reflection on the front top of the engine nacales?

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