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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Aug 24, 2010
Description:
Dad, your Grandpa really owned and flew one of these.
Yes son in 1948.
Date Taken:
Aug 24, 2010
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369, Searey Motivation Pictures
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Dan Nickens - Aug 24,2010
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Cool. What did he say about it? How did it fly?
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Philip Mendelson - Aug 25,2010
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They were called flying bathtubs, he flew it out of a pasture in Spring Valley, NY.<br />He said it was very slow and actually flew quite well, it motivated him to get his pilots license and fly an Aeronica Champ to Florida a couple of times in the 1950's.<br />My Grandmother gave me a written account of one of there trips in the days of nothing but a compass and a map. In one of her accounts of rough weather she describes those 'tissue paper wings' vibrating like a musical instrument. my Grandfather accumulated about five hundred hours in these old Aeronicas.
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Dan Nickens - Aug 25,2010
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Wow! That is so cool. That's real flying.
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Frank A. Carr - Aug 25,2010
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Real flying indeed, but how was his hearing after 500 hours? The Champs were loud enought and we didn't have headsets since there was no radio. Heck the 7AC didn't have a battery or a starter--and no iPod jack either.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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John Robert Dunlop - Aug 25,2010
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Yup, learned to fly on a no radio, no starter, 65hp champ.
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Frank A. Carr - Aug 26,2010
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My first 50 hrs in a Champ also John, they were fun to fly,--and noisy-- and little did we know they were a predecessor to the LSA. And there were no TFR's, Class B airspace, or need to contact ATC. I overflew New York City NORDO. But now we're dating ourselves.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Troy iRMT Heavy Maint. Enriquez - Aug 26,2010
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Dating ourselves? ' starting in the 1930s, as a code to identify planes which needed radio <br />repairs or were not equipped with radios' (wikipedia)<br /><br />yeah I guess so. 
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John Robert Dunlop - Aug 26,2010
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Yeah, on my solo cross country I overflew Toronto International (then Malton Airport) and was almost run down by a TCA Viscount! (My instructor planned the route!)
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Kenneth Leonard - Aug 26,2010
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John, I was without radio on my solo cross country also and was almost run down by a Pitts. My instructor planned the route. Some things never change!
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Lee Coulman - Aug 28,2010
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John<br />Are you sure that was a turboprop Viscount...come-on it was really a DC-3 (2?).
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