[Cal]

How did ya do against the Cessna in the background?  (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Real poor; we got red flaged every time a plane got on the taxi-way!

Here's some of the more difficult competition:

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This post has been edited by Cal: Nov 17 2005, 08:10 AM

[Pilot]

Regarding the "other competition", you have to be wary of both of those.  The Ag-Cat is very nimble and has a huge engine... the Shrike... well lets just say that Bob Hoover used to fly one of those for his airshow routine.  Now that's a hell of a way to navigate a chicago box!

Good catch on the "N" number. I love AG-Cats and that one was wicked looking with a turbine and five bladed prop. Bob Hoover is more than an aviation icon, he is one of my heros! He is a much greater pilot than Chuck Yeager who gets all the press. Too bad I never got to see one of his Shrike Commander aerobatic routines in person. That guy could have been a killer AX racer.

Psh, did you ever hear the story of Bob Hoover's "retirement"? The FAA screwed him... not only that, he happened to perform his routine for them... with the cowl flaps stuck open on one engine. Sheesh, not only performing a difficult show in a business twin, but doing it with constant adverse yaw?! That boy had some skills. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Kevin, I never put the the pieces all together, but the hours of standing on your head in the pesticide filled compartments of Ag planes really explains a lot (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

You guys are going to make me take pictures at work and post them up, aren't you?