Old airplanes and memories

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

"Wow I thought Nebraska was all flat!" The words of the young pilot I was teaching to fly my 1946 Aeronca Champ. She had learned to fly in Florida and is part of the Air Ambulance flight crew now operating out of the McCook Airport. (Forget its official name!) Life Team flies a twin engine turboprop "King Air" aircraft that is most comfortable above 10,000 feet where most everything down below does indeed look more flat. The Champ seems to be more comfortable flying low and slow down about 500 feet (about as high as a city block is long) above the ground. At eighty miles per hour, one has more time to enjoy, no savor is the better word, the scene below. Besides that low and slow is just pure fun.

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