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But I'm posting from a computer at the <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.ntps.com" target="top">National Test Pilot School</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>I'm taking the Intro to Fixed-Wing Flight Testing course. It's kind of boring so far... I've already covered ALL of the academic stuff that they've done. But we get to fly tomorrow!<br><br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br> <p></p><i></i>

You are interested in "How to land" correct? <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.limalan.org/images/Sigs/Mega ... <!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"MegaDeath //Definition: [n] the death of a million people; "they calibrate the effects of atom bombs in megadeaths" :-)!"</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

Cool!!!<br><br>Very neat!!!<br><br>Let us know the outcome.<br><br> <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://members.cox.net/ccraig3/itiman6.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></p><i></i>

Any landing you can walk away from is one you didn't break your legs in. <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.camerasupport.com/oV/mavsigr ... <!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></p><i></i>

No No No... Any landing you walk away from is a GOOD landing... <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :p --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/tongue.gif ALT=":p"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>BTW- flying as the pilot in command rulez! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :p --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/tongue.gif ALT=":p"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Never, Never, Never Quit"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> -Winston Churchill</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

I remember a pilot in the 20's and 30's who use to buy bi-planes for like $100. usually older planes with not much left in them. He would then put on a show at events where he would 'barnstorm'. He would have a structure, usually a small movable barn and crash the plane into it. He had something like 80 preformances in his carrer, some with his wife, and survived them all. <p></p><i></i>

There was a guy out here that did that.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>LOTS</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> of stories of aviators from out here. The general area has SO much history when it comes to aviation....<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

Absolutely. There is an almost unbelievable amount of significant aviation history in the Mojave Desert. Still lots of plane wrecks too. On the west face of Mt. Baldy (Mt. San Antonio) there is still a complete WWII trainer / fighter which hit the side of the mountain in bad weather. I think there's a WWII bomber in the middle of the desert somewhere as well. I've always wanted to go see a bunch of the wrecks. One of these days I'll make a long weekend driving / hiking trip of it. <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.camerasupport.com/oV/mavsigr ... <!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></p><i></i>

There are a TON of wrecks at Edwards too. Most of them are classified (still) and a lot of them are just dents in the ground from the impact. But I know of three that exist and are within walking distance of where I work.<br><br>In one of those, the pilot died. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :( --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=":("><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br> <p></p><i></i>

That, sadly is the price test pilots pay for pushing the boundaries of our aeronautical knowledge past what we know into the unknown, giving us things like the Space Shuttle, and Supersonic transports.<br><br>While it is a tragic thing that they died in a plane crash, it's because of them in part that air travel is so safe. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Never, Never, Never Quit"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> -Winston Churchill</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

Saw the bomber in the Mojave. I love those old planes, heaping wrecks or not. <p>"Patience is a virtue ... for other people." -Ravok</p><i></i>