calvert@ut-sally.UUCP (Ken Calvert) (01/17/86)
As I've enjoyed reading others' bio's, guess I'll venture out of the ranks of the "passive readers" and give mine. Age: 29 ASEL, July 1983 Total time: 70 hours, alas. I guess I've been in hiatus for the last couple of years. From what I've seen, there seem to be quite a number of net.aviation readers who have taken some time off from flying for one reason or another, and then returned. Makes my heart glad. In my case, it has been marriage and returning to school. (read: lack of $$) I learned to fly in C-150's at Colts Neck, a turf field in the middle of central New Jersey horse country (near Freehold). (What? you didn't know there was horse country in NJ? I recommend a visit to COL sometime - it's like something out of the barnstorming days - complete with office heated by pot-bellied stove. Flying in there on a clear, calm summer evening is almost a religious experience. But hurry. When I left a year ago there was talk of putting - no kidding - a shopping mall where the airport is :-() Of the three airplanes I flew in regularly when learning, usually only one had a working radio, none had working xponders, and one was missing a prop spinner. But they flew okay, and were the cheapest things around! Someone mentioned the experience of a night landing on an unlighted strip. I'd have to count that as one of my most memorable also (I don't have that many to choose from). COL had lights, sometimes. On my night dual cross country, we came back late and they hadn't left the lights on. The airport was somewhere in the middle of a LARGE dark area. My instructor said "that's okay, we just fly up this lighted road, make a left at the lighted billboard, and presto." Sure enough, there were the two bicycle-reflectors marking the end of the runway - the only things visible in the sea of blackness. Keep 'em flying, and keep writing about it for those of us who're "just wishin'" right now. Ken Calvert Univ. of Texas Computer Science calvert@sally.UTEXAS.EDU ut-sally!calvert -- I speak only for myself, you understand. Ken Calvert Univ. of Texas calvert@sally.UTEXAS.EDU [ihnp4,seismo,almost anywhere]!ut-sally!calvert
brad@gcc-milo.ARPA (Brad Parker) (01/20/86)
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dowdy@cepu.UUCP (Dowdy Jackson) (01/25/86)
I am 22 and I am an undergrad at UCLA studying Molecular Biology. I am finally
what's called a "Graduating Senior", this means that I can take any difficult
class avaliable and then plead with the prof for a passing grad so I can
graduate.
I am as green as you can get as far as flying goes. I just started
taking lessons out of Santa Monica Airport this week. I am having the greatest
fun I have had in a long time. I just felt that I had to do something nice
for myself since I have worked long and hard to obtain my degree. I realize
that when I become a grad student, I won't have time to do much so I had better
st.
I have enjoyed reading all of the bioliographies so far so keep them
coming.....
Dowdy Jackson
UCLA Department of Neurology
UCLA School of Medicine
rgg@ganash.UUCP (Rich Giannotti) (01/31/86)
I have enjoyed reading the mail over the last few months. Here is my first attempt at a "contribution". I learned to fly in 1967. Pvt S.E.L. 1000+ hrs , 800 in taildraggers. I currently own a 1946 Taylorcraft BC-12D which I have had since 1973 and which I rebuilt in my spare time between 1979 and 1981. I am considering selling or trading because I'd like a Cessna 170A or B. I also own a half share of a modified 1940 Fleet 16B with a 220 hp Continental W-670. This airplane is officially known as "Flaglor Hi-Tow" and was modified by Ken Flaglor in 1957. Ken's most recent project was the GeeBee model Y replica. One of my "thrills" was landing the Biplane at J.F.K. in N.Y. for a show. We parked right next to the Concord. I am a member of AAA and AOPA and past president of the Antique Airplane Club of Greater N.Y. I love to fly and am very disturbed about ARSA. We have many restrictions on us here because of the FAA's policy of sanitizing the airspace for the airlines.....Enough of that. Thanks for a nice,informative dialog Rich Giannotti