Flying Backwards
Now this is a true
account
of how I found
out
that planes could fly
backwards!
Leased a Piper J-3
Cub
on a very windy day
above.
The man at the hanger said
"It's awful windy out
there."
And my reply to him was;
"I like turbulent
air".
So headed her into the strong
blowin' wind
and was air borne
quicker than you could say
"Great gobs of goose
grease".
Headed her up wind
pulled the throttle
out,
pulled the stick back
climbing, climbing away from
Mother Earth
and that J-3, it was plain to
see
wanted to be free
like she had a second
birth!
Up, up she went very
high
in the very windy
sky.
Leveled off watching a
country barn
approach;
began to throttle back on that
J-3
and that barn stood still
for me!
Now ease the throttle back
some more and I
declare
that Piper Cub was
flying backward
in the
air!
Mission accomplished!
Just a little less
throttle
and did a partial-power
stall,
and as she dropped away
on that cold and
windy
day,
kicked left rudder,
felt that tell-tale shudder
and did a tail-spin
turning round and round
and headed for a certain spot
on the ground;
Now kick right rudder
and that Cub,
smooth as butter,
went into a screaming dive.
So much fun I'm having
up here in God's
blue sky!
Time to push the stick forward
then back into my gut,
and out of the dive
she flies
in these cold and windy
skies.
Sure had my fun today,
like an extra-marital
affair
with a Piper Cub in God's cold
and windy
air.
Set her down so gently
like a feather wafting
down,
and you can bet
Caffey was the happiest
guy in
town.
And as I left the hanger
I saw an old Buick
whose bumper sticker read,
"Flying is the most fun
one
can have with his pants
on!"
The above is the only
extra-marital affair
I've had
on the ground
or in the
air!
