Seeing Franks awesome Flight Dio and reading about his lucky contact with the female kind brought back a very cool and not so cool flight memory of my own......
Here is my first flight in any kind of aircraft:
1975 was about 12 years old I use to spend my summers hanging around the small private airfield near my neighborhood in Fall City Wa.just watching aircraft taking off and doing tuch and go's etc etc....One day this guy was working on a old Cessna 150 ( I think thats what it was ? )
and he said "Hey kid...get the hell out of here before I call the cops"
[ oops....sorry thats what my dad always said ]
He said...hey kid you must love aircraft...I see you here all the time....
well one thing led to another and next thing you know....He says..."Tell you what...you go home, get a note from your folks saying its ok for you to go up with me and your in!"
![Big Smile [:D]](/FSM/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_big.gif)
....You never seen a kid run and jump so fast before in yer life!!
I must of made it back in less than 15 minutes.....panting and almost passing out
![Tongue [:P]](/FSM/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_tongue.gif)
I gave the pilot ( Gorege Isakson...spelling? ) my mom's note....and we went up!
He told me that him and several friends owned the aircraft and split the cost of fuel and parking and that he flew Helos in Veitam...( which I thought was soo cool! ) a very nice guy indeed. It was awesome! He even let me take the wheel for a tad ( in flight of course )
I flew with him one other time a few weeks later.....before taking off I noticed a twin engine beachcraft flying straight down over a near hill.....I said "Did you see that ......that was a crazy stunt!".....he said "No...that was no stunt his throttle was full and the plane wsn't just spinning".... So we took off very quickly......when we got to the area were the plane went down ( in a small clearing just off of a old railroad line ) the plane was in flames and there was already a U.S. Army cobra already there on the ground and the co-pilot was trying to get to the downed aircraft but it was too hot. ( Maybe some one here can explain why ) but the the Army pilot had to have Gorege call in the accident to Sea tac's emergancy center?......man that was sad and very heavy.
Turns out later I learned that the Pilot took off from Eastern Washington that day on route to Pain Field North of Seattle but had a heart attack and that the Cobra was a local Army reserve unit out on maneuvers...they just happend to be very close when they too saw the aircraft go down.
Straighten up and fly right.....