JS>> Jim, it's so hard for me to believe that a good pilot could do as
JS>> you describe above.
JS>  Sorry you have problem beieving that one... but the same pilot was
JS> later KC-135 INSTRUCTOR at Castle for some time before retiring
JS> and very good.  Maybe you can get too complacent. I never landed
JS> one...
Lands like a great big Aeronca Champ.
JS>I did not get my commercial multi-engine until after
JS> retirement. I did navigate in C-47 for three years mostly arctic
JS> flying... Got my main experience in Beech 18 after retiring tho
JS> I did some right seat flying in T-11 while instructing Bomb
JS> aimers.  We started to use C-45s for Navigation at Harlingen
JS> when it reopened...
I still content that this was the squirelest landing airplane that I had 
experience with.  You got experience in the best with the C-45 and T-11.  
I read the other day that they had place a T-11 in a Museum some place 
but couldn't remember where.
JS>but soon0 got T-29 instead. C-45 could not
JS> be fitted to teach radar....
Jim, what year were you at Harlingen?  Lots of my classmates took the 
cushioney job flying the Navigators around and playing Golf and 
thoroughly enjoyed it.  Most of the guys were the ones that didn't plan 
to stay in the service anyhow.  It actually went very high in the 
airplane/base selection process at graduation.
JS>    Maybe I just flew with too many desk types getting their
JS> 4 hours per month and basics. :)
Here is the real clue and I think you finally broke the code.  Boy, most 
of them were terrible but met some good ones myself.
JS>    Wind storm almost got one of our C-47s here at Knoxville
JS> on the Fourth.  Luckily the hanger roof landed short of the a/c.
JS> But the wind was something. C-47 belongs to Remote Area Medical
JS> group.
Hate to see any one of them lost that way....Jim....
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