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Tracy Crook wrote:

>   All normal until tailwheel lifts off and plane wind-vanes violently 
> into gust.  Force tail wheel back down to regain control and a second 
> later the plane lifts off and does a pretty good imitation of a 
> butterfly caught in the draft of a semi.  Soon in control again but 
> combination of low airspeed, P factor and cross wind has plane 
> pointed 45 degrees away from course down runway.     And of course, 
>  all in front of an audience of die-hard rotor-heads who were still at 
> Bill's place.  Sigh....  
>  
> Tracy (adding glasses to preflight checklist)
>  


Tracy,,

     This sounds almost like my ARRIVAL in the Cardinal, minus the 
audience (and the tailwheel).. It was an attentiongetter..
 
Dave