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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 12 Mar 2025 17:23:50 GMT
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 05:36:05 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    Tail-draggers have their negatives !!!
> 
>    Digging the prop into the runway is a biggie.

I was not a natural born pilot and the person who taught me to fly told me 
if I wanted to learn about tail-draggers I'd have to find someone else. It 
wasn't inexperience on his part; his day job was ag pilot flying a Thrush.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayres_Thrush

A couple of times I would hang out a thousand feet or so above where he 
was working. It was like watching ballet. It wasn't much of a plane to use 
for stealth. The big old P&W radial could be heard for miles.