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From: Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: LOW B-24 "WITCHCRAFT" TAKEOFF!!! FULL HD! - LOW B-24 _WITCHCRAFT_ TAKEOFF!!! FULL HD!
Date: 22 Jul 2018 17:54:39 -0700
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In article <eb6aldh9ucmq217sf7p9id570elmo3cbiq@4ax.com>, Stormin' Norman says...
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>On 22 Jul 2018 15:55:39 -0700, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
>wrote:
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>>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...
>>>>>
>>>>>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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>>>
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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!!
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>>...I'm not exaggerating.
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>Did it improve your performance? ;-)
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Frankly, I don't recall thinking I doing that bad...at least no worse than any
other student...helicopters are a handful to learn...unlike airplanes you sit
and struggle to control all three axis with pedals, collective and cyclic.
Learning to hover is considered a major accomplishment!!
The real problem was maintenance...I remember at Rucker with its hundreds of
aircraft/helicopters, there was such a shortage of mechanics, they had to hire
locals to handle routine daily chores supervised by Army technicians. More than
once I distinctly recall climbing on top of my assigned UH-1's roof to inspect
the rotor assembly and having to hold on to the rotor blades to keep from
slipping on all the hydraulic fluid spilled but not wiped up.
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