Original Posted By: fishin
Yep, thats what I said.My 80 yo mother told some of her old flying stories from back during ww11. Seems she had a job in a defence plant, and while there, had earned enough $ to go in half on a 1937 Taylorcraft.She was a student pilot who never got her licence beyond cross country.She related taking off in a snow storm and being hoplessly lost, then looking down and seeing the airport directaly below her.Another time she ran out of gas so landed in a field and walked to town to by more with gas stamps.Her partner, also a girl, ran out of gas and force landed in a field so small no one could figure how she got in there.To get the plane out, several men put a minimum amount of gas aboard, and the smallest man they could find, reved the engine to full while holding it back, then let her go .Plane mane it up, but just barely missed the trees.Mom was flying past a beach once, loaded with sunbathers along lake Mishigan and decided to buzz the beach. It was soo much fun she buzzed it again, watching all the sun bathers run away... until she realized the a/c number was in block letters under the wing...Another time she decided to take a pass or two, to buzz the house of a friend. She came in low and fast, so close she could see looks of horror in their eyes.Feeling smug, she later went by their house. They told her that the plane's wheels had narrowly missed the electric wires.They were sure she was going to get killed.God protects drunks and fools.Mom finally put the iceing on the cake when she went flying one day, taking along a few peaches for her lunch. She would eat a peach, throw the pit out the window.Eat another peach, throw the pit out the window...Next day the newspaper read, Man in hospital, hit by flying peach pit.My mom sold the plane, thinking she would buy another. She never did. That was the end of her flying days.Some years ago I wrote the FAA for a record of her airplane as a birthday present. In it was the entire record of her plane. It was lost from the regestration rolls sometime in the early 1960's.Registration # was NC19014 I don't suppose anyone out there knows where it is ?Bob________________________________________________________________________________Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 22:00:54 -0500