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Allright, my turn, There I was..... 6500 feet in not so great VFR
weather, chugging along in an AT-6. Knee-board on the leg, writing the
time passing a check point. I stowed the pencil, but not quite well
enough and it headed for the deep cavern between the foot rails to the
belly of the plane. You have no chance of getting it back because
you'd have to unstrap, get out of the seat and kneel on the floorboards
and even at that you may not reach it. Meanwhile, who's watching the
store?!
And, no spare pencil. Well, I looked around ( something short of a
clearing turn ) and rolled inverted. From the belly up came nuts,
bolts, screws, cut-off ends to safety wire, sand, dirt, paint chips,
and my pencil, now all nicely trapped in the canopy. I reached up,
rather down, grabbed my pencil, and rolled right side up. Seems like a
lot of just about everything else went down the neck of my flight suit.
From there it was a very uncomfortable flight.
jsilberman
On Mar 28, 2006, at 10:13 AM, roger anderson wrote:
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Ok. As long as lost items stories continue, here's mine. Was in USAF
in Enid, Ok. Flew aero club T34 down to a local airshow (to watch,
not perform). Flying back, had never done a loop before, but those
airshow performers sure had made it look easy. Over open wheat fields
of Okla., with canopy open in the T34 (hot summer day), I pointed the
nose down, built speed. Pulled back on stick, nose coming up. Then
big mistake. At a little past vertical, relaxed back pressure. T34
continued to inverted, but was now floating upside down. Hat, charts,
plotter, E6B, and sand of 20 years from under floor boards, after
filling my eyes and hitting me in face, dissappeared out into the
wheat fields of Okla. Guess they're all out there somewhere today.
Moral of story (and technical relevance), if you're half way through a
loop, don't stop at that point. roger
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