Meanwhile, unfortunate Sarah was home distressing about me, and the particularly erratic and stormy weather. Texas is where we learned the phrase “tornado watch.” In fact, she went through so many when departed for the second Flight School phase in Fort Rucker, Alabama she declared she would never live in Texas again. And, I was too concerned about dying in a helicopter crash or failing the next phase and “washing out” to give her the attention she deserved. We were newlyweds, and she forgave me- I think. After a few weeks, the pressure lessened, and we met some enjoyable people; Buck and Mimi Lovelace, who also had a Porsche. Theirs was the newly released 900 body style. Their 912 was heavier than the 356 but with the same old, weak
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However, flying was easy for me, and I didn’t have any difficulty getting back up to speed. The remaining contact flight was cross-country and confined area landings. The school designated confined landing areas by the degree of difficulty, and since I loved them, I always picked the most difficult. None of them deserved to be named “difficult”, but it was a learning environment. Some students stupidly tried to see how close they could come to an empty gas tank before landing. Many filled their tanks with 24.9 gallons in the 25 gallon tank. I waited for one to make a turn to final and suck air, giving them a real autorotation, but fortunately that never happened. We kept our friendship with Mimi and Buck though they were now in the class ahead of us. When they departed to go to Fort Rucker for instrument training, we asked them to look for an apartment near them for us. They agreed, but we would soon find out that they were unreliable and had not complied with that request. And there was no remorse for ignoring their …show more content…
Buck asked us to drive Mimi to the airport in Montgomery and to hold his car for a while, and we found a puppy in Montgomery. We drove Mimi up there and bought Princess back. She was as cute as a button, and we loved her immediately. Saint Bernard’s have a reputation for rescuing people in the Alps with a keg of Brandy around their neck. The explanation comes from a painting, “Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler”, by a young painter named Edwin Landseer in 1820. It portrays two Saint Bernards standing over a fallen traveler, one dog barking in alarm, the other trying to revive the traveler by licking his hand. The dog doing the licking has a barrel strapped around its neck, which Landseer claimed contained brandy. I was told that story when I was young and couldn’t help depicting it with the keg. Flight school was not challenging for me and with the extra time on my hands, I made a couple more models; a sailplane, a whiskey keg for Princess and a rigid rotor attack helicopter. The case for the sailplane came later. The movers smashed the helicopter in the next
However, flying was easy for me, and I didn’t have any difficulty getting back up to speed. The remaining contact flight was cross-country and confined area landings. The school designated confined landing areas by the degree of difficulty, and since I loved them, I always picked the most difficult. None of them deserved to be named “difficult”, but it was a learning environment. Some students stupidly tried to see how close they could come to an empty gas tank before landing. Many filled their tanks with 24.9 gallons in the 25 gallon tank. I waited for one to make a turn to final and suck air, giving them a real autorotation, but fortunately that never happened. We kept our friendship with Mimi and Buck though they were now in the class ahead of us. When they departed to go to Fort Rucker for instrument training, we asked them to look for an apartment near them for us. They agreed, but we would soon find out that they were unreliable and had not complied with that request. And there was no remorse for ignoring their …show more content…
Buck asked us to drive Mimi to the airport in Montgomery and to hold his car for a while, and we found a puppy in Montgomery. We drove Mimi up there and bought Princess back. She was as cute as a button, and we loved her immediately. Saint Bernard’s have a reputation for rescuing people in the Alps with a keg of Brandy around their neck. The explanation comes from a painting, “Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler”, by a young painter named Edwin Landseer in 1820. It portrays two Saint Bernards standing over a fallen traveler, one dog barking in alarm, the other trying to revive the traveler by licking his hand. The dog doing the licking has a barrel strapped around its neck, which Landseer claimed contained brandy. I was told that story when I was young and couldn’t help depicting it with the keg. Flight school was not challenging for me and with the extra time on my hands, I made a couple more models; a sailplane, a whiskey keg for Princess and a rigid rotor attack helicopter. The case for the sailplane came later. The movers smashed the helicopter in the next