X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:10:33 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: <2thman1@gmail.com> Received: from mail-pa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.220.41] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.0.5) with ESMTPS id 6390601 for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:03:12 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.85.220.41; envelope-from=2thman1@gmail.com Received: by mail-pa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id bj1so471684pad.14 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 08:02:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.68.253.227 with SMTP id ad3mr49309362pbd.63.1374764556568; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 08:02:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Original-Return-Path: <2thman1@gmail.com> Received: from [192.168.1.145] (c-208-53-115-208.customer.broadstripe.net. [208.53.115.208]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id sz3sm26219648pbc.5.2013.07.25.08.02.35 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 25 Jul 2013 08:02:35 -0700 (PDT) References: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-C81380C2-D264-44D5-B5EB-19FC7BBD4FD4 X-Original-Message-Id: <3DF74F06-BB02-43E9-B033-5AF63A7D345E@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: iPad Mail (10B329) From: John Barrett <2thman1@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [LML] Re: THE FIRST AUTO PILOT & 500 FOOT CLUB X-Original-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 08:02:32 -0700 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List --Apple-Mail-C81380C2-D264-44D5-B5EB-19FC7BBD4FD4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Since he ended up wearing the Sheepshead I guess it didn't offer enough prot= ection. Or so that sheepskin? Sent from my iPad On Jul 25, 2013, at 7:44 AM, Douglas Brunner w= rote: > So he was having a poke at Mrs. Polk? >=20 > Sorry, couldn't resist > -----Original Message-----=20 > From: PETER WILLIAMS=20 > Sent: Jul 25, 2013 9:54 AM=20 > To: lml@lancaironline.net=20 > Subject: [LML] THE FIRST AUTO PILOT & 500 FOOT CLUB=20 >=20 > Lawrence Sperry was a bon vivant and party animal; he was known as Gyro; > he took the Sperry the gyro-compass, and developing an =E2=80=9Cautopilot=E2= =80=9D in 1912. >=20 > some time in 1916 he was flying across Sheepshead bay at 500 feet, next to= JFK airport when he crashed. >=20 > the fisherman that picked him up from the water noted that the crash was s= ufficiently strong to knock all the clothes off Gyro and his lady friend, so= cialite Mrs. Waldo Polk. >=20 > and i do not know how he managed, > but if the pilot straddles both seats in a modern airplane..... >=20 > peter > -- > For archives and unsub http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/lml/List.htm= l --Apple-Mail-C81380C2-D264-44D5-B5EB-19FC7BBD4FD4 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Since he ended up wearing the Sheepshe= ad I guess it didn't offer enough protection. Or so that sheepskin?

Sent from my iPad

On Jul 25, 2013, at 7:44 AM, Douglas Brunner <douglasbrunner@earthlink.net> wrote:

<= font color=3D"#000000">So h= e was having a poke at Mrs. Polk?

Sorry, couldn't resist
--= ---Original Message-----
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 viva= nt and party animal; he was known as Gyro;
he took the Sperry the g= yro-compass, and=20 developing an=20 =E2=80=9Cautopilot=E2=80=9D in 1912.

some time in 1916 he was flying a= cross 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 was s= ufficiently strong to knock all the clothes off Gyro and his lady friend, so= cialite Mrs. Waldo Polk.

and i do not know how he managed,
&= nbsp; but if the pilot straddles both seats in a modern airplane.....<= br>
peter

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