X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:44:07 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.64] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.0.5) with ESMTP id 6390561 for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:40:48 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.86.89.64; envelope-from=douglasbrunner@earthlink.net DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=NTQL1vY+CDpQlBu6e+YRhfleolCwBD9RM3ivxLU2Ag4OQdRHS7wRalDrxzd/gUsR; h=Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:To:Subject:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Mailer:Content-Type:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [209.86.224.34] (helo=elwamui-hound.atl.sa.earthlink.net) by elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1V2MiD-0002UB-74 for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:40:13 -0400 Received: from 38.124.150.2 by webmail.earthlink.net with HTTP; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:40:13 -0400 X-Original-Message-ID: <16474550.1374763213208.JavaMail.root@elwamui-hound.atl.sa.earthlink.net> X-Original-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:40:13 -0400 (GMT-04:00) From: Douglas Brunner Reply-To: Douglas Brunner X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] THE FIRST AUTO PILOT & 500 FOOT CLUB Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: EarthLink Zoo Mail 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 X-ELNK-Trace: ad85a799c4f5de37c2eb1477c196d22294f5150ab1c16ac083d85a7b94e5317581763af79e330f6c7c3610b3f6c88fc3350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 209.86.224.34 So he was having = a poke at Mrs. Polk?

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Sorry, couldn't resist
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From: PETER WILLIAMS
Sent: Jul 25, 2013 9:54 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] THE FIRST AUTO PILOT & 500 FOOT CLUB

Lawrence Sperry was a bon viv= ant  and party animal; he was known as Gyro;
he took the Sperry the= gyro-compass, and=20 developing an=20 =E2=80=9Cautopilot=E2=80=9D in 1912.

some time in 1916 he was flying= across Sheepshead bay at 500 feet, next to JFK airport when he crashed.
the fisherman that picked him up from the water noted that the crash w= as sufficiently strong to knock all the clothes off Gyro and his lady frien= d, socialite Mrs. Waldo Polk.

and i do not know how he managed,
&= nbsp;    but if the pilot straddles both seats in a modern airpla= ne.....

peter
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