fgcason
En-Route
I'm one of those caveman aviators that would prefer to do a Key West FL to Attu AK XC in a J-3 Cub at 500-1000 AGL with the door open the whole way watching the scenery go by and overnighting in pastures and mountain meadows.
A 170 or such would be ok but I'd take the Cub given the chance just because I like to see the world go by at a sensible pace that does not involve an unrecognizable blur.
Zoomie jets, turbo props, fire breathing monsters, triple digit velocities and altitudes that are prefixed with FL, forgetaboutit. I don't want any part of that nonsense.
But sometimes, very extremely rarely but just sometimes, I'm actually impressed by something going fast.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av010/060118delay.html
"New Horizons will depart Earth at a record 10 miles per second, passing the moon's orbit in just nine hours and reaching Jupiter in just 13 months."
Back to your regularly scheduled slow putting around pace...
A 170 or such would be ok but I'd take the Cub given the chance just because I like to see the world go by at a sensible pace that does not involve an unrecognizable blur.
Zoomie jets, turbo props, fire breathing monsters, triple digit velocities and altitudes that are prefixed with FL, forgetaboutit. I don't want any part of that nonsense.
But sometimes, very extremely rarely but just sometimes, I'm actually impressed by something going fast.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av010/060118delay.html
"New Horizons will depart Earth at a record 10 miles per second, passing the moon's orbit in just nine hours and reaching Jupiter in just 13 months."
Back to your regularly scheduled slow putting around pace...