11 Mar 98 21:45, Robert Linenweber wrote to Ford Tolbert:
 RL> My Army flight instruction began January 1968.  There was no swearing at
 RL> the students allowed and it was a different philosophy than you were
 RL> treated to. The only time I heard a curse word out of my flight
 RL> instructor's mouth was when he accidentally got us into a spin.  He
 RL> started swearing a blue streak when the wing broke and he didn't stop
 RL> until we were in level flight again.
The wing broke?  I'd been cussing until the chute opened.
I scared the hell out of one of my instructors when I was working on my 
commercial license back in 1979.  We were practicing slow flight on a warm 
bumpy day when a wing dipped.  I tried to pick it up with just a bit of 
rudder and the aircraft popped right over into a spin.  I was proficient in 
spin recovery and had things sorted out in probably no more than half a turn. 
 I was surprised but there was no hesitation on my part.  The instructor, 
OTOH, must have been asleep at the switch, because he became quite agitated.  
He thought that *now* would be a great time to get lunch.  I think he drank 
his because he canceled the rest of his schedule that day.
You'd think I was the only guy that ever spun out of slow flight.  ROFL!  
What a weinie.
Jay
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