On Nov 6, 2:06 pm, Gene Kearns
wrote:
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:05:42 -0000, penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:





On Nov 6, 11:37 am, Gene Kearns
wrote:
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:05:22 -0000, penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

I understand what you are saying about the approach, but this
particular pilot and radio guy was saying that the pattern itself gets
"larger". That I don't understand, unless it's just the windward leg
because of ground tracking.

That would be it...... ATC has to allow for where they think an A/C is
going to drift to. It is a pretty accurate SWAG, but they enlarge the
pattern just in case.

Relax... current report is:
METAR KATL 061552Z 33015KT 10SM CLR 12/M04 A3012 RMK AO2 SLP198
T01171044

Winds down to 15kts.... just another day in paradise! That is...
except for the seaplane pilots on approach to Puddle Lanier....

--

Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

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Yeah, I had seen that the winds were calming down. And, there actually
is more than one seaplane on Lanier. Some people seem to have more
money than they have sense! On to another plane subject. My uncle
worked on Corsairs for awhile, man in his old age he loved to talk to
anyone who would listen about those planes! I took him up to
Charleston to the aircraft carrier on Patriot's Point. I knew they had
a Corsair in the carrier because I'd been there before. I didn't tell
him. When he saw that thing you could see tears well up in his eyes,
and he just stood there staring at it for a good ten minutes. THEN the
stories came, one's where he actually pointed out pieces. I still have
all of his old repair manuals, etc. from his Navy and private days.
This includes where he'd reparied private aircraft and signed off on
them, etc. He even knew how to work on fabric airplanes, doping, etc.
When he was long retired, I built a homemade hovercraft just to get
him involved. I think that was the last thing we worked on together.

I know what you mean....

One of the guys I work with was based on the USS Lexington. He lost
his plane (TBM Avenger) and all of his gear when the ship was lost in
the Battle of the Coral Sea. He made it off of the sinking Lexington
onto a destroyer and finally ended up aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-5).
Today some of his orders, following the sinking, are on display on
board the USS Yorktown (CV-10) in Charleston, SC.

And he has a ton of really neat stories. He'll soon turn 88 and is
thinking seriously about retiring. I hope he'll continue to drop by
and continue the story telling.....

PS
We're covering the control surfaces of a DC-3 with fabric, right now.
The rib stitching will never end.....

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Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

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Oh, and if you have any pictures of your DC-3 project, let's see them!
I've flown in several, they used to use them for skydiving alot. I've
also flown in a Ford Trimotor! Like flying in my metal shed!!!