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My First Flight in the Cub

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ChrisB

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I got the opportunity to take a flight in a cub last week. She was hard too keep straight on takeoff but flies like a dream! The c 85 shook the whole thing and left me half deaf after the flight! It got me thinking a lot about my future in aviation. Can you think of anything that is better today than it was 50 years ago?

I made a list of my dream fleet- pitts, stearmen, cub and possibly a tigermoth. The most recent aircraft is the pitts s1s, with its first flight in 1944 flies better than any other aerobatic aircraft I can think of. The music has taken a turn for the worst, which goes without saying. I read flight of passage, where it took rinker and his brother 1 month to raise enough to pay off there cub and fuel costs for the trip. Id be happy to do that before I'm 30! There fuel costs averaged at $2.50 an hour! Back then you where pioneering every time you went up, these days the best job in aviation pays you 80k a year as an aerial bus driver where your away from home most your life programming the autopilot (I understand this is an extremely pessimistic view of commercial aviation, but this is what I have been told by other commercial pilots who advise me not to pursue the career)

I'm hooked on the cub and am definitely going to convert to tail wheel after I get my ppl.
Tailwinds,
Chris

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