-> like a car ashtray. Unbelievable. The instructors
-> would light up right after takeoff.
Maybe teaching you guys to fly was so stressful they NEEDED to smoke?

->   idiosyncrasies. The tough part was getting the
->   engine started, and you could get the crew chief
->   to do that for you. 
Wasn't that the ship that quite often made you think you'd had a minor
explosion in the engine room?  I'm not really all that familiar with the
Century series airplanes except for what Frank Walters has said about
them. He of course thought the Six Shooter was the best of them. (But
then he was addmittedly predjudiced....)
->   Just about anybody could fly one of these things,
->   the tricky part was the landing. 
Heck, that applies equally well to an Aeronca Champ!   
SOME difference in the speed though......
->   I've often thought that if someone was pretty good
->   on Space Invaders, they could do a good intercept
->   in the F-102.
Back when I was flying aerobatics, seriously, I was making my daily
bread by fixing electronic game machines in bowling alleys and skating
rinks.  Some of the kids playing those things had the damndest reflexes
I'd ever seen.  We had one particular game which used a joystick to
'fly' the player's game piece through mountains and 'other' obstacles.
Those kids could zing through there at full bore. Heck, I had to
throttle back just to stay alive!
I sure wanted to take some of those kids out to the airport and
introduce them to aerobatics.  With reflexes like that, just THINK what
they could've done!
->   We had a guy in our outfit that didn't like the
->   Aeronautical Charts - he carried a Texaco road
->   map.
  I probably would have too.  Old habits die hard.... 
But when you've flown really SLOW airplanes all your life you NEED to
take along some reading material!
 ^..^
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