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Don Maxwell - Mar 19,2010
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Here's the first flight of a brand new flyer. I found it struggling along in a chilly, shaded place and offered it a ride on the leaf to a warmer location. It soon was ready for takeoff. What interested me most was the way it flew a regular pattern, returning to the takeoff point several times before setting out on its first cross-country.
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Larry Woods - Mar 20,2010
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Hi Don:<br /><br />Great video and commentary. I enjoyed it.<br /><br />Best,<br />Larry
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Dan Nickens - Mar 20,2010
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What a terrible example to post for student pilots, Don! Did you see those radical aerobatic maneuvers? The FARs do not permit having fun on a first flight. Further, I'm sure the flight was done without a parachute.
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Don Maxwell - Mar 20,2010
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Wallace Stevens (my all-time favorite insurance agent) had a radical take on aero-bee-tic maneuvers, Dan:<br /><br /> The President ordains the bee to be<br /> Immortal. The President ordains. But does<br /> The body lift its heavy wing, take up,<br /><br /> Again, an inexhaustible being, rise<br /> Over the loftiest antagonist<br /> To drone the green phrases of its juvenal?<br /><br /> Why should the bee recapture a lost blague,<br /> Find a deep echo in a horn and buzz<br /> The bottomless trophy, new hornsman after old?<br /><br /> The President has apples on the table<br /> And barefoot servants round him, who adjust<br /> The curtains to a metaphysical t<br /><br /> And the banners of the nation flutter, burst<br /> On the flag-poles in a red-blue dazzle, whack<br /> At the halyards. Why, then, when in golden fury<br /><br /> Spring vanishes the scraps of winter, why<br /> Should there be a question of returning or<br /> Of death in memory’s dream? Is spring a sleep?<br /><br /> This warmth is for lovers at last accomplishing<br /> Their love, this beginning, not resuming, this<br /> Booming and booming of the new-come bee.<br /><br /><br />(From 'Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction')
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Don Maxwell - Mar 20,2010
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(If that gives you a headache, don't worry. It's an intellectually difficult poem, but it's fun to say, whether it makes sense, or not. Stevens wasn't really an insurance agent. He was, as I recall, an investigator for and later a vice president of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company.)
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