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Extremely Herb! I was sent this link a few minutes ago and was reading the story as the notification of your message in queue came into my emai bin..
Amazing story!
Wonder when Skip wrote this? Interesting the damage to the engine last year, had John been able to apply more pressure to Skip, I wonder if the rest of the crank might have been unhappy enough to not want to finish the race??
That sure puts us right in the cockpit doesn't it!
Yikes.....that was an awesome story. I never knew how close they came to loosing her on that deadstick landing. Does anyone know where along the wing he hit the power pole?
Yikes.....that was an awesome story. I never knew how close they came to loosing her on that deadstick landing. Does anyone know where along the wing he hit the power pole?
Also significant was Skip's mention of how much damage there was to the engine after last year's race.
Had John Penney been able to apply more pressure on Skip to make his left hand have to push harder, maybe the year would have been entirely different. No matter how you slice it, it still appears that the Merlin operates on the very edge of something going wrong when running at full tilt... with a healthy Bear, could we be entering another era of the big roundie running down the hot rabbit and breaking him before the only lap that counts!?!?!
Oh my.... it's only October and already I can feel it building!!!!!!!
It's going to be really neat to see Skip and John in the sky together down at Vegas... I think you can tell by the way Skip wrote that article (very well, indeed!) that Mr. Holm does NOT like to lose!
That is a great article. Seems that Dago and the Bear both had very busy crews this year.
In reading his resume of aircraft flown (and what an impressive list it is), I see that he has time in the Rare Bear. When did he fly her? Did he ever fly it in a race?
In reading his resume of aircraft flown (and what an impressive list it is), I see that he has time in the Rare Bear. When did he fly her? Did he ever fly it in a race?
Somebody mentioned that to me a month or two ago and I completely forget the story behind it...
Speeddemon: I know you know the answer to this....
In reading his resume of aircraft flown (and what an impressive list it is), I see that he has time in the Rare Bear. When did he fly her? Did he ever fly it in a race?
Reading Skip's resume is enough to make anyone short of Bob Hoover feel a little "inadequate".
Reading Skip's resume is enough to make anyone short of Bob Hoover feel a little "inadequate".
Pretty daring landing that deadstick at approach to Stead. I bet that makes one feel slightly uncomfortable for a while, even when one makes it. I wonder if even 1/100 pilot could have made it ( possibly 1/ 10 000 ).
Way to go Skip !
rgds,
Juke
PS: They aren't going to operate my back at all..just a cortisone injection to the nerve root !
Speeddemon: I know you know the answer to this....
Skip did some testing of the Bear in the mid-1990's, and if I remember, was actually named 'back-up' pilot for John Penney during that time when Lyle's pilot's license was 'in limbo' and when RARA threatened to ban John Penney for his 'choice of words', or something like that.
Skip never raced the Bear, though. That is a pretty elite group of people there....
Pretty daring landing that deadstick at approach to Stead. I bet that makes one feel slightly uncomfortable for a while, even when one makes it. I wonder if even 1/100 pilot could have made it ( possibly 1/ 10 000 ).
Way to go Skip !
rgds,
Juke
Juke, the dead stick aproach wasn't into Stead it was into their home base at Provo Utah......not that that makes it any less impressive mind you. The thing that stuck out to me is the fact he was coming in, not sure if he was going to make it, and still decided to pull the flaps up If I could be 1/4 the pilot he is, I would be very very happy.
Juke, the dead stick aproach wasn't into Stead it was into their home base at Provo Utah......not that that makes it any less impressive mind you. The thing that stuck out to me is the fact he was coming in, not sure if he was going to make it, and still decided to pull the flaps up If I could be 1/4 the pilot he is, I would be very very happy.
Ok, I stand corrected. Nice work anyhow when saving that precious racer.
"...help the flight surgeon with ‘VD Patrol.’ I was supposed to go into town and inspect the girls, and hand out color-coded stickers. White ones to safe girls and brown ones to those who weren’t.”
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