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Subject: Re: [OM] /flying self-portraits (now well OT)
From: Gary Edwards <edwardsg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 20:47:06 -0500
Where I come from that's "Spitfire" or "Spit", capitalized and spoken in the 
same
reverent tone used for "Mustang" and "Corsair" and "Crusader" (especially 
"Corsair";
I've spent 24 years with what's left of Vought.)

Anyway, Giles, your dad must have been one a hell of a good stick to get that 
one
back.

Gary Edwards

Giles wrote:

> My father once took up a spitfire for a maintenance check during WW2.  He was
> rather 'disconcerted' to find that the action of the ailerons had been 
> reversed so
> that left stick gave right bank.  He managed to get it and himself back in one
> piece.
>
> Giles
>
> gary edwards wrote:
>
> > Speaking of unexpected inversions:  my first ride in a bizjet was a
> > maintaince check flight in a Sabreliner 60 many years ago.  After we
> >
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