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a58r(at)verizon.net
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 12:45 pm Post subject: First airplane

First 1/4 airplane: '37 Aeronca C-3 with 3 cyl 37hp (on a good day)  

Szekley (pronounced shay-kay, not zeek-lee), four-way partnership, '40.



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Bob N.

http://www.angelfire.com/rpg/ronoy/

John Hauck

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Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 12:56 pm Post subject: First airplane

Sheezzzz!



That was three years prior to birth date. hehehe



john h

mkIII

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John Hauck

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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:11 pm Post subject: First airplane

| First 1/4 airplane: '37 Aeronca C-3 with 3 cyl 37hp (on a good day)

| Szekley (pronounced shay-kay, not zeek-lee), four-way partnership, 

'40.

|

| regards,

| Bob N.

Grey Baron:



You told me a Wright Flyer........................



john h

mkIII

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Steve Boetto

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 364

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:13 pm Post subject: First airplane

First solo was a PA-140 in Nov 1972

 First solo in a plane I owned was a Rutan Long-EZ I built. Jan 7,  1985

 The most Fun overall is Firefly #007 on floats

 All three of these craft are still in service today.

  

 Steve Boetto

a58r(at)verizon.net
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:21 pm Post subject: First airplane

John,

Wrong Flyer!

Bob N.

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Mike Schnabel

Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Posts: 114
Location: Manchester, TN

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:34 pm Post subject: First airplane

First flight... 1974, Piper Cherokee (toy on a string, hooked it to a chair back, then tugged... landed it on a paper runway)...<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

   

  But it that does not count, fast forward to...

   

  First Solo flight... 5/3/87, Wills Wing Raven 209 (Hang Glider) at Lookout Mountain Flight Park, . The view from the launch pad was awesome, the view after leaving the launch pad that first time... priceless!

   

  First powered solo flight 12/7/87, Cessna 152 (ho hum...), Smyrna TN...

   

  First Ultralight solo flight 1/3/88 Sorrell Hyperlight with a 277 (you might already have guessed the next line), Eagleville TN...

   

  First Ultralight dead stick landing 1/3/88 (yep, first flight was also first engine out landing!), Eagleville TN...

   

  First Kolb flight... hopefully later this summer!

   

  Mike S

  Manchester TN

  Firestar2 503

     

  



BPA <BPA(at)bpaengines.com> wrote:



  [quote]              P-51, on a string J

   

  Allen B.

   

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kfackler(at)ameritech.net
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:54 pm Post subject: First airplane

Wow! All these replies and nobody got annoyed at anyone else. Whooo hooo!



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Texan (talking to a Yankee): Why did the chicken cross the road?



Yankee: I don't know.



Texan: To prove to armadillos that it _can_ be done!



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Kirk Smith

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 78
Location: SE Michigan

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:17 pm Post subject: First airplane

First flight at Davis Air Service Chehalis, Washington in 1957 in my

Dad's  Aeronica Chief. First solo 1970 in my Dad's 47 PA12.  My first

plane a 47 C-120 Spam

Can.

Russ Kinne

Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Posts: 182

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:16 pm Post subject: First airplane

John Hauck

How could you have flown a stork pre-natally??? By three years?

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On Jun 30, 2006, at 4:56 PM, John Hauck wrote:



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  Sheezzzz!



 That was three years prior to birth date. hehehe



 john h

 mkIII

Jim Baker

Joined: 30 Mar 2006
Posts: 181
Location: Sayre, PA

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: First airplane

I wasn't , then though, ah what the heck....



First flight...before I can remember accurately. My first big 

impression was riding in the back of Pop's 170 somewhere 

around '57 as he flew over to a towered/lighted airport to do 

night landings and sim ILS approaches. I remember that one 

because there was a grasshopper hanging on to the strut and I 

was fascinated with his gripping power. Fell off after 20 min.



Soloed a J3 in '68. Soloed a Navion in '69. Got time in a 

Citabria, PA-11, PA-18. I recall winning a dinky trophy for a fuel 

consumption contest at a Navion fly-in...off by just .2 gal. Also 

recall that there was a vent in the roof of the Navion that the 

back seat pax could open and, if you're young and bored and 

just riding along somewhere, one could sneak on a roll of toilet 

paper, feed one end out the vent and let suction do the rest by 

unwinding it out into the ether. Always wondered what folks on 

the ground thought about that. "Look, Ma!"



Didn't do much of anything for quite awhile til getting a private 

ticket in 2002. But I wasn't stuck on the ground, either. As an Air 

Traffic type for Uncle, we could get familiarization flights if we 

did something to wow the front office. Not that I was any great 

shakes but always managed to latch on to some project that 

gained some modicum of notoriety (to be fair, some of the rides 

simply involved calling the Command Post and asking what was 

going out and could I get a ride). Through this mechanism I got 

rides in:



UH-1, T-28, U-8, U-21, OV-10, T-38, C-141, C-5, C-23, F-111, 

F-4, KC-135, KC-10, KC-97, C-121, T-39, T37, C-130 (including 

assault strip landings and takeoffs plus LAPES drops while 

standing in the door), C-119, C-123, and a couple others I've 

probably forgotten. I must say that the Aarvark was the most 

impressive of the lot. Did a max climb to 45K then down over the 

Wash (NW East Anglia, UK) and then up to Mach 1 toward 

Skegness and then back to RAF Lakenheath. What impressed 

me was tha lack of noise. That was one big electric 

machine...just a hum and a whoosh. I also recall that they didn't 

give me a correct pre-flight brief in the cockpit mock-up. After I 

was in the airplane I'd hooked up the oxygen mask to the 

console and flipped the selector in the direction and number of 

clicks that I was told to (selector was a by-feel affair, to my left-

rear and behind my line of sight)....not the right result. There was 

vastly reduced flow but marginally sufficient. The pilot asked 

how I was doing and I asked is it normally like this, hard to 

breath? He said "Oh crap!" and flipped the selector one more 

notch....big old blast of oxy that literally forced the mask off my 

face for a second then calmed down.



Built FS 2 in 1994. Soled a 152 and 172 in 2002. Bought a 

Bellanca Viking (complex/high perf) in 2003 while having a 

grand total of 120 hours. That's turning out to be a money pit. 

The plane is basically OK but the systems are a bit long in the 

tooth. The engine cranckcase cracked about 3/4 of the way 

around #6 cylinder the Friday before Mother's Day. Got it on the 

ground in Beckley, WV and have bought a Continental rebuilt 

($27k) and R&R'ing various components, including the prop 

which, I learned this morning, needs a new hub to the tune of 

$3.2k. I keep telling folks this is like giving a diamond to a pig. 

But a fast pig at that...just before the crack I was tooling along at 

180kts. 



The adventure contines....



Jim Baker

580.788.2779

Elmore City, OK

John Hauck

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Posts: 4639
Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:37 pm Post subject: First airplane

| How could you have flown a stork pre-natally??? By three years?



Russ:



Don't think I know what you are talking about.



Should have listed part of the referenced msg from Ray Anderson.



Ray said he soloed in 1936.  That was three years prior to my birth 

date.



Don't remember flying a stork, but flew an old ragged Ultrastar for a 

gentleman that flew like  a turkey.



john h

mkIII

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hauck's holler
Titus, Alabama

rsanoa

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 71
Location: Bell Buckle,TN

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject: First airplane

John,

   

  I actually soloed in 1935 and bought the mate to my solo airplane,  Curtiss Jr. in 1936. Got a lot of riding time with my instructor in his Cessna AW, the first Cessna with a cantilever wing. Tube, fabric and wood construction.  Pilot up front in single seat, two passengers behind. Also in his 1932  Cabin Waco. Can't remember the model.  Every thing free and easy without much interference from the Feds. John, you would have been in hog heaven back then. 



John Hauck <jhauck(at)elmore.rr.com> wrote:

  [quote]--> Kolb-List message posted by: "John Hauck" 



| How could you have flown a stork pre-natally??? By three years?



Russ:



Don't think I know what you are talking about.



Should have listed part of the referenced msg from Ray 		Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls.  Great rates starting at 1¢/min.

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John Hauck

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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject: First airplane

|  I actually soloed in 1935



Every thing free and easy without much interference from the Feds.



John, you would have been in hog heaven back then.

|



Ray:



You got that right.



I never enjoyed flying so much until I built the Ultrastar.  Pretty 

much flew it and the Firestar when, where, and how I wanted to. 

Figured if the Feds got on me I could always plead ignorance.



Funny how things, my attitude, changed once I got the mkIII with an N 

number stuck on its tail.  Felt better because I was finally legal, 

but really toned down my flying.



Other morning I realized my Class III physical would expire the last 

of this month, well..........tomorrow.  Called Doc Foshee over in 

Clanton.  He is retired, but still gives flight physicals in his home 

which in right next to the airport.  Doc said come on over and get my 

physical.  Got to my airstrip and the cows had crapped all over the 

north end and the little parking area in front of the hangers.  I have 

never seen so much cow crap in one area in my life.  Didn't have time 

to the one of the tractors to drag it, so that cut my 750 ft strip to 

about 350 ft.  Now sweat.  Got out with no problem.  Landed at Clanton 

Airport, taxied overe to the NW corner of the field, up next to the 

fence.  Hopped the fence, walked about a block to Doc's house.  Got my 

physical and was back in the airplane in 20 minutes.  Now my problem 

was getting back into my strip without hitting cow crap.  No wind to 

help, but got her in and stopped before we got to the "mined" end of 

the strip.



So...I am good to go for another two years.  Got my BFR while on my 

flight out West.  Need to sign off my Annual Inspection, and I am good 

to go.



Take care,



john h

mkIII



PS:  Nice living and flying in a small town atmosphere.

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John Hauck
MKIII/912ULS
hauck's holler
Titus, Alabama

HShack(at)aol.com
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:25 pm Post subject: First airplane

My first is also my present- Kolb Firestar II, first flown in '98.

  

 Howard Shackleford

FS II

SC

DAquaNut(at)aol.com
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject: First airplane

    My first plane and solo was in a Wizard J-3 in 1981 I  believe.  Took 3.5 hours time in a Champ 7-ac I believe it was.

  

                          Ed Diebel        Firefly #  62

Ed in JXN

Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:04 pm Post subject: First airplane

Rumor has it that Icarus signed his logbook.



Ed in JXN (MI)



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ElleryWeld(at)AOL.COM
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:02 am Post subject: First airplane

I have had plenty of remote controll airplanes that is how I learned how to fly then I bought a Vector 627 SR U/L and been flying since but I get the most enjoyment Flying the tricked out Firestar 

 

                  Ellery in Maine

esteuber(at)rochester.rr.
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 3:02 am Post subject: first airplane

Soloed my dads Aeronca Chief out of our farm strip  in 1963 at 16 years old in Holley NY...

                       ED in Western NY

Denny Rowe

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 89
Location: Leechburg, PA

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 4:59 am Post subject: First airplane

Built 1981 Pterodactyl Ptraveler

 First flight 1982.

 A friend still flies that bird, or at least some of  the pieces. 

  

 Denny Rowe, Mk-3

Russ Kinne

Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Posts: 182

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 5:47 am Post subject: First airplane

Bob

Dint you glue feathers onto your arms with beeswax?

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On Jun 30, 2006, at 5:20 PM, Bob Noyer wrote:



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 John,

 Wrong Flyer!

 Bob N.

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