When I was sorking for the airplane factory, I got some good RH seat time in
both the 500 and 550 prototypes, the latter was outfited with a spray system
for icing tests. As we often flew light, with no interior and only suitable
fuel, those planes could do right well for a straight wing aircraft. My
biggest regret was never being able to con a flight in the 500 prototype
when it had one original engine and one of the proposed engines for the
model 600. I'm sure there was some asymetrical power situations there, but
the dam engine was almost as big around as the cabin. It must have been
almost as much a rocket ship as the A-37, which I also didn't get a flight
in.
Bill Pearce
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From: Chris Barker [mailto:ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 3:39 PM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 10/10/2010: after the rain
That remains an excellent bit of poetry, and that line a good part :-)
I remember feeling ever so sad when I realised that he was Canadian (for
some reason): I had found his name in the Royal Air Force's memorial at
Runnymede. But then there were loads of things to feel sad about there and
then.
I'm sure that the Citation is a hot ship, especially lightly loaded.
Chris
On 13 Oct 2010, at 11:39, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> FYI, yesterday I got to fly right seat down to New York and back in my
cousin's corporate Citation. Heaven help me, I can feel the call young men
must feel to get in the driver's seat and blast off into the long delirious
burning blue (apologies to Pilot Officer Magee). This was my fifth or sixth
right-seat experience in the Citation, several of them all the way from
Portland Maine to West Palm Beach, Florida. Every take off is the
essentially the same: WOW!
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