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Old 10-06-2009 | 06:41 PM
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Default RE: High Wind Flying

[color=#FF0099]Gentlemen,

For those of you who know me and my thread, you've already seen this photo.... Last year during hurricane season, my good friend and former Flight Instructor David Storer invited me to go "Extreme Flying" in the wind courtesy of Hurricane Ike... this is a shot of us during "mid-air refueling".... David held the wing tip of my SkyRaider and the plane would lift off the table into the wind on it's own.... A great day.... we did extreme downwind highspeed low passes over the runway, incredible negative snaps and when not fighting to "park" the planes in the air....flew "backwards" in the wind with our SkyRaiders to the delight of the small handful of pilots who wouldn't go up in it! I'm certainly glad the Hurricane season has been quiet this year, but I'd love to repeat a day like that again.
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