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Re: Sport Aviation Mag Jan. 2010
[QUOTE=VictorBravo;53775]Mr. King,
My comments were not directed at any particular article or author at all, and I apologize for any inference that way because of the thread subject. Honest. I liked your article and I'm awestruck by the aircraft. I'm as jealous and thrilled about your flying the Pitcairn as anyone else is. Growing up around the Old Rhinebeck scene... I'd even trade you some of my own childhood for that
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Bill, I was just stirring the pot a bit, didn't take anything personally. I figured that the people here would like an article about an old airplane like the Pitcairn. I agree about the general dumbing down of society, everybody seems to want the easy way out, which doesn't describe most of the people here, nobody says old airplanes are the easy way, which is one of the reasons we like them, isn't it?
And thanks for the compliment wlas. They originally were going to have one of their writers do the article, and asked me to write 500 words on flying it, then after I sent that in they asked for 1500, then they said what the heck write the whole thing.
Like some of the other great experiences I've had, the 'giro flying is thanks to good and generous friends, not to any great thing on my part.
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[QUOTE=VictorBravo;53775]Mr. King,
My comments were not directed at any particular article or author at all, and I apologize for any inference that way because of the thread subject. Honest. I liked your article and I'm awestruck by the aircraft. I'm as jealous and thrilled about your flying the Pitcairn as anyone else is. Growing up around the Old Rhinebeck scene... I'd even trade you some of my own childhood for that
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Bill, I was just stirring the pot a bit, didn't take anything personally. I figured that the people here would like an article about an old airplane like the Pitcairn. I agree about the general dumbing down of society, everybody seems to want the easy way out, which doesn't describe most of the people here, nobody says old airplanes are the easy way, which is one of the reasons we like them, isn't it?
And thanks for the compliment wlas. They originally were going to have one of their writers do the article, and asked me to write 500 words on flying it, then after I sent that in they asked for 1500, then they said what the heck write the whole thing.
Like some of the other great experiences I've had, the 'giro flying is thanks to good and generous friends, not to any great thing on my part.
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