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Post by scubakobe on Jun 3, 2006 10:43:29 GMT -5
Wow, I just read an amazing article. Leon Stoman crossed the pond in a 150! He said that the airliners passing overhead kept asking for his aircraft type, and he repeated Cessna 150. If you haven't read this story yet you ought to, I read the whole thing, I don't usually read all of a huge article. www.cessna150-152.com/transatlantic.htmAmazing!!
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Post by Keith on Jun 3, 2006 11:43:57 GMT -5
BOY! That takes some guts huh?
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Post by Dan on Jun 3, 2006 12:40:00 GMT -5
Incredible story - incredible flight!!
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Post by jimslost on Jun 3, 2006 13:12:41 GMT -5
The things we do for the love of flying. I know a lady who spent several weeks on a Russian trawler because the Cessna 172 she was ferrying to Australia gave up the ghost enroute. She ranks as one of the three luckiest pilots I've ever met.
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Post by scubakobe on Jun 4, 2006 1:55:57 GMT -5
Yes, I could probably never do that. I would rather be the stunned pilot in the airliner passing overhead! ;D
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Post by bhk on Jun 4, 2006 6:54:23 GMT -5
I don't want to rain on your parade but aren't you overlooking the fact that this was initially done eighty years ago and has been repeated innumerable times since?
Sure....flying a single-engined aeroplane across the Atlantic is a challenge, but in the 1990's or even the 2000's the event pales into insignificance compared to what those aviators of the 20's, 30's and 40's accomplished.
Avionics, communications and navigation technology bear no resemblance to what was state-of-the-art back in those days, and neither does the reliability of the engine.
It's certainly an adventure to be admired but hardly something to shout from the rooftops. In my book, a little like climbing Mount Everest in the 21st. century; it's now so common that we only hear about it when someone has an accident.
Bruce
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Post by jimslost on Jun 4, 2006 12:36:45 GMT -5
All true, Bruce.
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Post by scubakobe on Jun 4, 2006 14:40:35 GMT -5
I was not aware of this, never heard of pilots ferrying Cessna's across the ocean, and haven't heard any stories from the news about an adventure similar to this. Goes along with what you said:
Although I do know that I am not the only person who has never known about this sort of adventure and I was not the only person amazed by this.
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Post by jimslost on Jun 4, 2006 14:53:39 GMT -5
It's always eye-opening to see what others are up to.
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Post by bhk on Jun 4, 2006 16:12:05 GMT -5
...I was not aware of this, never heard of pilots ferrying Cessna's across the ocean, and haven't heard any stories from the news about an adventure similar to this.... Perfectly understandable, now that I have taken the time to check your profile and see your age. There have been some wonderful feats of light-aircraft flying over the past two decades, not the least of which are HG Schmid's double circumnavigation of the planet in 2000 and Dick Smith's solo helicopter flights in 1982/83. More recently, of course, is the flight of Fosset in the Voyager - non-stop around the world. But I still stand in awe of the Lindbergs, Kingsford-Smiths, the Amelia Erharts, the Hinklers, et al, who pioneered this type of flying in little more than an assembly of bits of wood, glued fabric and twisted wire plus a star chart and a thermos of coffee. Bruce
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Post by Dan on Jun 4, 2006 16:24:33 GMT -5
. . . ahhhhhh - it's that thermos of coffee that makes all the difference . . . . . . Dan …it’s great being a kid again – without the glue! ;D
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Post by scubakobe on Jun 4, 2006 16:27:15 GMT -5
Hahaha, I bet he didn't drink coffee for the rest of the week!
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Post by scubakobe on Jun 8, 2006 21:41:13 GMT -5
...I was not aware of this, never heard of pilots ferrying Cessna's across the ocean, and haven't heard any stories from the news about an adventure similar to this.... Perfectly understandable, now that I have taken the time to check your profile and see your age. Bruce Well I am not actually 17. I guess I set that as 17 so I could get in the forum, but I am 14 and turning 15 in July. I wish I was 17 though because I would be flying my friends around everywhere!
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Post by bhk on Jun 9, 2006 0:38:58 GMT -5
Well I am not actually 17. .... I won't tell anyone then. And stop wishing your life away! (When you reach my age you''ll thank me for that piece of advice. ) Bruce
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Post by sgtmajor on Jun 9, 2006 13:10:43 GMT -5
Amen to that!
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