Including an exciting proximity to power lines; a display of mighty dad powers; how to impress the ladies; the painted knees of flapper girls; and a trainee pilot dealing with total engine failure.
Including an exciting proximity to power lines; a display of mighty dad powers; how to impress the ladies; the painted knees of flapper girls; and a trainee pilot dealing with total engine failure.
I can almost see the point of the educator who thinks we must teach white guilt in order to get past white guilt, white people have indeed done some terrible things and we should admit that. But the racism of the educator doesn’t allow her to see that white people didn’t do these terrible things because they’re white, they did them because they’re human beings. This is the way human beings act – and other civilizations have continued these practices long after white people have put them behind them. The idea that white people and white people alone are responsible for all the troubles in the world is an absurd idea. If this were true, why aren’t people flocking to the veritable paradises of Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa and Central America and anywhere else there are very few white people? And why, if white people are responsible for all the bad things, aren’t white people held responsible for all the good things as well?
To suggest that white people have done some terrible things is unnecessary as every race has been equally as evil, if not more so. How are the followers of islam doing these days. How about those Chinese people, blacks in Africa sure are a great bunch. The Japanese sure had their kick at the cat. We need to stop this foolishness. I for one, am not responsible for anything that I didn’t do and will not be vilified for the actions of others in the present or in the past, anytime in the past.
As someone who has had engine failure while flying at 4000ft.
It sure in the heck, wakes you up!
Yet I was able to glide back to the airfield and land.
The uncomfortable part was dealing with a reporter who’s first question was (were you scared)
Well no. I was a tad to busy at the time. Now go away.
I’ve had the opposite problem: throttle cable broke at climb power. Got back to my home airport no problem, my first worry was that I was flying way too fast to lower the gear, so I dialed back the prop and aimed for the sky – once the gear was down it couldn’t overspeed (the gear is really draggy). Once I had the runway licked, I pulled idle cut-off and landed with the prop stopped.
It sure helps that I have over 4,000 glider flights in my log book.
Dustoff: fully understand that you were busy – a good pilot is far too focused on doing it right.