*** Answering a msg posted in area ECHO_PM0 (GEcho PM for Jay Hanig).
14 Jun 97 19:01, Robert Linenweber wrote to Jay Hanig:
 RL> setting.  He proceeded to show me by putting in take-off power and 
itch.
 RL> As the pitch got steeper and steeper I remember him saying "as you can
 RL> see, this aircraft will really stand on its tail prior to a stall."  
Then,
 RL> in the blink of an eye we were in a spin.  I didn't even know what a 
pin
 RL> was at that time.  The part of the maneuver that was most shocking is I
 RL> had never heard my instructor utter a swear word.  Suddenly the intercom
 RL> was a solid string of one swear word after another.  Once he recovered
 RL> from the spin, the blue string stopped and he regained his professional
 RL> demeanor. --  Maybe the moral to this story is you can take the Colonel
 RL> out of the Air Force, but you can't take the Air Force out of the 
Colonel.
ROFL!  My chief pilot when I was at Carowings was also a retired USAF 
colonel, and he apparently had a *lot* of Air Force still in him.  Pilots 
would get out of the cockpit after flying with him deaf in one ear and their 
hair looking like they'd been riding a motorcycle sideways.  Learned a lot 
from him though....enough so that I credit him with saving my life when I 
crashed that Lance....it was like he was right there with me, telling me (at 
high volume) what to do.
Jay
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