Posted: 04 May 2006, 19:41
I once (about 1976) lent my helmet to a friend who was going to test fly a Baby Great Lakes , which he had built , out of Barton. He came back and said that the aeroplane was super , but that my helmet was not in such good shape.It turned out that even at a slow cruise it developed so much lift that it was strangling him, so he took it off and jettisoned it in a lake called Carr Mill Dam at St Helens!
I am a very slow learner, because later he asked to borrow a rather beautiful 3 bladed wooden prop to test run a new engine in his workshop. I agreed, and the engine ran beautifully. Unfortunately, he omitted to bolt it down first, and it chased him round the workshop before the prop disintegrated!
Chris
I am a very slow learner, because later he asked to borrow a rather beautiful 3 bladed wooden prop to test run a new engine in his workshop. I agreed, and the engine ran beautifully. Unfortunately, he omitted to bolt it down first, and it chased him round the workshop before the prop disintegrated!
Chris