On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 01:31:56AM -0400, dep wrote:
>On Wednesday 12 September 2001 00:59, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>
>| Oh pshaw.... Back when I was a cropduster (true) we all used to
>| fly over to the nearest dairy on boring afternoons to partake of a
>| sundae. Hardly big enuff field to get into let alone get out of...
>| no strip at all.
>
>an old girlfriend's father, a great pilot who now does computer crash
>reconstructions for a living, was a cropduster in georgia, and she
>used to talk about the lights in their house going out, and her mom
>saying, "he must have hit another powerline."
My uncle Brownie knocked power out to a large section of Danville Virginia
flying under a bridge across the Dan River. He had already patched the
burn holes in the fabric by the time the police got to the air field to see
who had done it. Of course being a test pilot, he was probably a bit
crazier than the average pilot. I got curious a couple of weeks ago, and
did a search on him on google, finding that he was the did the first test
flights of the Douglas Skyraider.
Bill
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