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<DIV>David, As I recall you were having trouble seeing the plane during
daylight hours at New Waverly :-) </DIV>
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<DIV>I have seen people fly at night, but not with pattern planes!</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Keith</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 23, 2002 11:57
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Slightly Off Topic: Flying
Pattern at Night</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Dave</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>You must have been drinking....Was Tom there? What
about the spider monkey?<BR><BR><BR><BR>Gray Fowler<BR>Principal Chemical
Engineer<BR>Composites Engineering</FONT> <BR><BR><BR>
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<TD><FONT face=sans-serif size=1><B>"David Sweatt" <<A
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<P><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>09/23/2002 10:40 AM</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=1>Please respond to discussion</FONT> <BR></P>
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Subject: Slightly Off
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face="Courier New" size=2><BR>It's slightly off topic but I thought I would
share this story.<BR>This weekend I was at a large heli-funfly and it is a big
thing to fly<BR>helicopters with nightblades and nightropes and such.<BR>Well
I had my beater FedEx 2meter bird in the truck, and for some reason we <BR>got
the crazy idea to strap night rope and glow tubes to it.<BR>It looked really
cool all lit up and I have to admit I was really nervous <BR>but I took off
and flew around abit to get used to it, and being that your <BR>so used to
flying the pattern I proceeded to fly the entire Sportsman <BR>sequence at
about 12:45 AM! It was really cool cause even when I would kinda <BR>of loose
it, due to muscle memory I guess or knowing where to move the <BR>sticks cause
you practice it all the time it worked out great. The landing <BR>was
interesting cause you couldn't see the ground but it came in just fine <BR>and
I didn't even break the prop!<BR>I got pretty good video of it too..anyway
thanks for letting me share my <BR>story..David
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