X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:54:03 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from col0-omc3-s6.col0.hotmail.com ([65.55.34.144] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.0.5) with ESMTP id 6390043 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:58:19 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=65.55.34.144; envelope-from=peterpawaviation@hotmail.com Received: from COL129-W5 ([65.55.34.137]) by col0-omc3-s6.col0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Wed, 24 Jul 2013 19:57:44 -0700 X-TMN: [WY51jupWvbiNC8rVA7EBMVstaGi68Qel] X-Originating-Email: [peterpawaviation@hotmail.com] X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: peterpawaviation@hotmail.com Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_a513d143-ab24-4ee2-a961-f183cfe29d9a_" From: PETER WILLIAMS X-Original-To: "lml@lancaironline.net" Subject: THE FIRST AUTO PILOT & 500 FOOT CLUB X-Original-Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:57:44 -0400 Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Jul 2013 02:57:44.0188 (UTC) FILETIME=[BC34B3C0:01CE88E2] --_a513d143-ab24-4ee2-a961-f183cfe29d9a_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Lawrence Sperry was a bon vivant and party animal=3B he was known as Gyro= =3B he took the Sperry the gyro-compass=2C and =0A= developing an =0A= =93autopilot=94 in 1912. some time in 1916 he was flying across Sheepshead bay at 500 feet=2C next t= o JFK airport when he crashed. the fisherman that picked him up from the water noted that the crash was su= fficiently strong to knock all the clothes off Gyro and his lady friend=2C = socialite Mrs. Waldo Polk. and i do not know how he managed=2C but if the pilot straddles both seats in a modern airplane..... peter = --_a513d143-ab24-4ee2-a961-f183cfe29d9a_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Lawrence Sperry was a bon vivant=  =3B and party animal=3B he was known as Gyro=3B
he took the Sperry = the gyro-compass=2C and =0A= developing an =0A= =93autopilot=94 in 1912.

some time in 1916 he was flying across Shee= pshead bay at 500 feet=2C next to JFK airport when he crashed.

the f= isherman that picked him up from the water noted that the crash was suffici= ently strong to knock all the clothes off Gyro and his lady friend=2C socia= lite Mrs. Waldo Polk.

and i do not know how he managed=2C
 = =3B  =3B =3B but if the pilot straddles both seats in a modern airp= lane.....

peter
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