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Originally Posted by Joeaksa
Flew flight test for the factory for a while. Happened every week and the early 20 series birds could be a handful. I flew one of the first (sn 009, now in the Pima Air Museum) and they were fun but still could bite you it not handled right.
Any airplane can bite you if not treated right, but they are far safer than women...
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joe! i have several hundred hours in lr-23-009! i flew it at kalitta, but it was then sold to bobby younkin who used it in his airshow routine. you may recall him - he was killed in a mid-air during an airshow in canada with his best friend in the other plane..the family witnessed the whole thing from the ground. he was flying his waco bi-plane 'samson' at the time, though. bobby lived in springdale, arkansas and #9 wound up in the fayetteville, arkansas air museum. in fact, the picture of it that he had of it painted in red and black is the learjet i chose for my business card. i'll see if i have a copy of it i can print.
as for ndb's...i still teach them every week. the students that i work with still fly old aircraft with really old radio stacks, so they're still there. in fact, i haven't had an opportunity to shoot a single gos approach all year! one of the guys has an old bendix 'manual tune' ndb that must be 40+ years old. ndb's are my fave..after the basic aircraft control by instrument reference is learned, i begin with them. if they can track ndb bearings, vor and ils orientation is a breeze...usually..
