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He thought it was great
fun, but he was a very experienced aerobatic pilot as well as a lunatic.
(He crashed a Luscombe at an airshow drunk once and cleaned up the mess
before the FAA got there, denying all knowledge of the event, know him?)

This I got a good laugh out of.

I need a time machine.


Wasn't all that long ago. Well, depending on how you measure time, of
course!

He's dead now anyway. Crazy son of a bitch in every way. He had an engine
failure in an Enstrom on his way to take his RW checkride! Put it in
someone's garden and actually walked away from it after making his own
clearing in the trees.
The Luscombe story is completely true. He had a few of them in various
states of disrepair. When the authorities came around to view the accident
site, there was another airplane there without a mark on it.


Bertie