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Flew for the factory for many years and have a lot of time in the old 20 series birds. Love them but not their fuel burn nor small cockpit, but they still bring a smile when I see one.
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Used to fly 008, its now in the Pima Air Museum. Was with Louise Timken, the wife of the founder of Timken Bearings. Grand old dame, and could still fly the Lear in her 80's but we always put an experienced captain in the other seat just in case.
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joe,
neat story! ha! the fuel burn was terrific, right?? we used to ignore the fuel gauges in 009 and 016 and went entirely by time on a watch. every so often we gave a truck driver or two a lift who'd done a one way haul back to el paso from detroit. one mexican fella i toted one time had never even BEEN in an airplane before..stuck him the left seat and talked him through the final 2 hours of the flight down to about 500 agl before i took over to land in the middle of the night. you should have heard him carry on in spanish on his cell phone later on the ground. i swear his feet were still 2 feet off of the ground. he swore his listener didn't believe a word of his story! here's a pic of me and airshow pilot bobby younkin..he even does an airshow in an old lear.
ryan
