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So the firing at her banner would be considered snappshots? What a sucky job in a lousy airplane, and getting shot at to boot. Towing gliders is hard enough work, but her job is insane! Target tugs should get combat pay! Hats off to the WASPs!WASP Helen A. Snapp pilots a Curtiss A-25A Shrike on a tow mission near Camp Stewart, Georgia, in June 1944
"Sweet".
Nice attention to important aviation based details- All I noticed in that area was the absence of wheel chocks- Those big heels would be a potential problem in regards to the rudder pedals--but somehow, I think that if this gal said "Come fly with me" it might have a slightly different meaning than getting airborne in a Stearman dual-seater. What a fantastic biplane-love to own one someday!!Don't get your heels caught in the rudder pedals, honey!
Or remaining clear of the propeller arc? Think she could swing the prop on that R985? Local cropduster used to do it all the time back in the day, when his anemic battery wouldn't.All I noticed in that area was the absence of wheel chocks
Fun to fly, bear to repair. Final exam in Aircraft Rigging in mech school back in the day was setting up a Stearman. Tighten the next to the last wire to spec, and you find all the others are pulled out of spec. Instead of playing "whack a mole" and chasing round and round, you slack them all off and start over. It's a real art. Mechs who are adept at this are kinda rare today.What a fantastic biplane-love to own one someday!!
If you'd just gotten out of the Stearman, I rather think she'd be saying; "Ugh, you're filthy and you smell like a refinery!".I think that if this gal said "Come fly with me" it might have a slightly different meaning
Funny, that's what my wife says after flying the Tiger Moth!!If you'd just gotten out of the Stearman, I rather think she'd be saying; "Ugh, you're filthy and you smell like a refinery!".
Cheers,
Wes
I've only seen one biplane pilot to whom that didn't apply. One sunny afternoon Bette Bach Fineman (ex wife of aviation writer Richard Bach) taxiied up to the shop at mech school in her Moth and we all went out to see. She was clean as a whistle and so was her plane. The only inverted inlines I'd seen were Rangers, and they were always greasy and grimy.Funny, that's what my wife says after flying the Tiger Moth!!
Funny, that's what my wife says after flying the Tiger Moth!!
She would be right about that, but it would be a small price indeed to fly one of those great stunt biplanes. After all, that's why we have: Hot showers and Dial soap and Old Spice, right??If you'd just gotten out of the Stearman, I rather think she'd be saying; "Ugh, you're filthy and you smell like a refinery!".
Cheers,
Wes
Wow, I've had fantasies like that!
I still do.Wow, I've had fantasies like that!
The "can do" generation. Will we ever see another like them?Three WASPs on right wing of A-25 checking the flight plan before a tow mission.
Thanks Wurger- In the Hemingway story: "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" the aircraft piloted by Compton at the end of the story is a Puss Moth. Any relation to the Tiger Moth aircraft?..