On 22 Jul 2018 15:55:39 -0700, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
wrote:
>In article <r80alddr7280m7gpn11j5ufgie0plfuhtm@4ax.com>, Stormin' Norman says...
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>>On 22 Jul 2018 15:00:53 -0700, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
>>wrote:
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>>>In article <gkq9ldd6q16c5n12ksfss5et7iu3dc08jm@4ax.com>, Stormin' Norman says...
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>>>>On 22 Jul 2018 07:23:42 -0700, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
>>>>wrote:
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>>>>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqp1LuHjBnY
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>>>>A beautiful, clear video, like a window on history.
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>>>>I remember reading that flying the Liberator was a sweat drenching
>>>>workout, exhausting. Apparently they had very, very heavy controls.
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>>>After graduating from flight school, my father came down with rheumatic fever
>>>during WWII...as a result, he was deemed unfit to fly combat missions but was
>>>kept in as an instructor...flew as a B-24 instructor. Being short (like me) he
>>>needed cushions to not just raise him a little but to push him forward a little
>>>to fully reach the pedals!!...eventually racked up over 10,000 hours in twenty
>>>years before being grounded for having a heart attack (2 1/2 pack/day smoker!!).
>>>
>>>
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>>The flight instructors were unsung heroes of the second war, IMO.
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>A lot (most?)of them are instructors against their will...had one helicopter
>primary instructor who was so pissed at my performance he actually hit me while
>we were flying and I still had my hands on the controls!!
>
>...I'm not exaggerating.
>
>
Did it improve your performance? ;-)
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