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Split-S Decision

Plane and Pilot

After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The airline merged with Republic, then Northwest, and finally Delta. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. The pilot learned to fly in the U.S.

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Split-S Decision

Plane and Pilot

After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The airline merged with Republic, then Northwest, and finally Delta. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. The pilot learned to fly in the U.S.

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Navy primary flight training—the instructor had it coming

Air Facts

But my goal was to fly the airliners that, as a child, I watched climbing out from La Guardia Airport over our Bronx apartment. A student’s properly demonstrated recovery showed that he understood that the rudder was the last control surface to lose effectiveness and the first to return, followed by the ailerons and elevator in that order.

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