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LETTERS

LETTERS FROM OUR FEBRUARY 2020 ISSUE

They said it couldn't be done
Julie Summers Walker's list of unlikely designs that flew elicited many more from readers.

Greg Shonle
Boulder, Colorado
AOPA 00944813

I'm responding to "They Said
It Couldn't Be Done." I believe
it did miss one. It was the fully
licensed Reid Flying Submarine
of the 1950/1960s. 
Bruce D. Reid
AOPA 5078262
Titusville, Florida

My nomination for top of the list
of notable aircraft designs is the
X-15, the one that's at the top of
my list for great stuff to interpret
as a docent at the Aerospace
Museum of California. My summary of scope is that the X-15
flight research program was
"Giant Leap Number 2 in flight
research," where number 1 was
the Wright Flyer and number 3
was Apollo.
Paul Raveling
Docent at the Aerospace
Museum of California
AOPA 562013
Gold River, California

Kid Tested

I enjoyed Catherine Cavagnaro's
latest article in AOPA Pilot ("Kid
Tested"). Not as technical as
some, but spot on. I had been
16 | AOPA PILOT April 2020

PILOT BRIEFING

32 BUDGET BUY 34 FIRST LOOK 36 AIRPORTS 37 TEST PILOT 38 PILOT PRODUCTS 40 MUSINGS

now Cirrus. We used to mock
the training wheel guys, until
for extended travel I bought a
Cirrus. Now if a destination has
a 30-knot or more crosswind, it
is not even a minor worry. In the
tailwheels, no way. I think Dave
Hirschman is correct and hope
CubCrafters is successful.
Jim Horan
AOPA 798618
North Easton, Massachusetts

MATTHEW HERRING

Replying to the "They Said It
Couldn't Be Done" article in
February 2020 AOPA Pilot:
You missed the Gossamer
Albatross; it was the first
human-powered aircraft to
cross the English Channel.
I think the Christmas Bullet
(#47) should not have been
included, since it couldn't
actually fly. It broke apart
immediately after its first takeoff, killing the test pilot.

COMPILED BY JULIE SUMMERS WALKER

aopa.org/pilot AOPA PILOT | 27

Good list, but you
forgot probably the
oddest one to fly, the
Aereon 26-or as
it was called, "The
Deltoid Pumpkin
Seed." It actually flew.
Michael A. Tovrea
AOPA 1359576
Lakeland, Florida

there many times with unhappy
family members and with students or passengers who had to
do the "technicolor burp." My
son once did that nine times on
a six-hour trip, then said "I'm
hungry" when we got there.
Ben Lampton
AOPA 1389424
Macon, Georgia

Ugly outside,
delightful inside

Nice review ("Ugly Outside,
Delightful Inside"). I have
4,500 hours, mostly Cub, Husky,
185 Skywagon, Stearman, and

Lifesaving missions

The purpose of this message is to
thank Natalie Bingham Hoover
for her wonderful writing, as
published monthly in AOPA
Pilot. Her February column,
"Lifesaving Missions," was especially powerful. I appreciate the
both the simplicity and profound
impact of the question she asks
pilot candidates: "why?"
Jim MacKay
AOPA 840591
Atlanta, Georgia

Ohio aviation history

Although I moved away 50
years ago, I grew up in a little town 10 miles east of
Wapakoneta in the 1950s and
1960s and still have family
living there ("Ohio Aviation
History, from A to W"). I went
to Neil Armstrong's homecoming in Wapak that included
a parade with Bob Hope
and other celebrities. It was

summer and the parking was
in some large grass fields near
the county fairgrounds. A huge
thunderstorm came through,
and they spent hours towing
cars out of the mud. Of course
there were plenty of tractors
available. It was a very big deal
for a small farming community.
I also remember going to a
family reunion in 1970 where
my great-uncle told everyone
he taught Armstrong to fly (and
produced his logbooks to prove
it!). I would love to find where
the logbooks are.
Civil aviation was very much
part of life there when I grew
up and Armstrong had a lot of
opportunity to get involved. Just
around my town of Waynesfield
(population 250), there were
three grass strips, two Cessna
172s, one Piper Cherokee 160,
and two Cubs. The town doctor had a Twin Bonanza based
in Lima, and his son (my best
friend) got his private certificate
during high school. I would go
with my older brother who flew
freight out of Lima and we dug
an Archer out of the snow to fly
down to see Apollo 13 go off. I
went off to college but finally
got my ticket in 1978.
It was the best of times.
Ren Babcock
AOPA 658141
Raleigh, North Carolina

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