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The book wasn’t a novel. It was a memoir. But, being a good student, I had read it before the first class met. Interesting book. But the instructor, a weekend pilot, was no teacher, and never mentioned the book. He was, however, an interesting, laid-back guy who turned the class into an extended conversation and Q&A about airplanes and aviation in general.
One of the most interesting classes included a guest speaker, a local (Vancouver) flight instructor who told some interesting tales, including this one: One of his students, a young male, was doing fine until the day when he was told to land the plane. During descent, and quite close to the airport, he froze and seemed to ignore (or didn't hear!) advice from the instructor. Finally, when it seemed that a crash could be the only outcome, the instructor tried to physically take control, and failed. The guy apparently had a case of the severest "White knuckle syndrome" ever! The instructor finally had to slug him in the face, hard, to get him to let go of the control yoke, at which point the instructor was finally able to take control and land the plane safely. The student never said a word, got out, and walked away, never to return.
Our class instructor invited us students to give short talks about any aviation topics we wished, so I presented a slide show of birds and airplanes on stamps. Here it is: Aviation on Stamps. All of the items on display are in my collection. I just took a look at the slides, after several years, and enjoyed them all over again. I hope you do too!
Bob
P.S. It's a 12+ megabyte file. I hope it opens easily for you. And, dang it all, I just noticed an error (missing word). Too late to fix it! Or, too much trouble to fix it! I can live with that. Only God is perfect, right?
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A few years ago I was enrolled in a Simon Fraser University extended education class, "Novels of Flight". It turned out to have little to do with the "novel" that we were required to read, West With the Night:
The book wasn’t a novel. It was a memoir. But, being a good student, I had read it before the first class met. Interesting book. But the instructor, a weekend pilot, was no teacher, and never mentioned the book. He was, however, an interesting, laid-back guy who turned the class into an extended conversation and Q&A about airplanes and aviation in general.
One of the most interesting classes included a guest speaker, a local (Vancouver) flight instructor who told some interesting tales, including this one: One of his students, a young male, was doing fine until the day when he was told to land the plane. During descent, and quite close to the airport, he froze and seemed to ignore (or didn't hear!) advice from the instructor. Finally, when it seemed that a crash could be the only outcome, the instructor tried to physically take control, and failed. The guy apparently had a case of the severest "White knuckle syndrome" ever! The instructor finally had to slug him in the face, hard, to get him to let go of the control yoke, at which point the instructor was finally able to take control and land the plane safely. The student never said a word, got out, and walked away, never to return.
Our class instructor invited us students to give short talks about any aviation topics we wished, so I presented a slide show of birds and airplanes on stamps. Here it is: Aviation on Stamps. All of the items on display are in my collection. I just took a look at the slides, after several years, and enjoyed them all over again. I hope you do too!
Bob
P.S. It's a 12+ megabyte file. I hope it opens easily for you. And, dang it all, I just noticed an error (missing word). Too late to fix it! Or, too much trouble to fix it! I can live with that. Only God is perfect, right?
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