ArVeeNiner
Well Known Member
Ok, we've all heard of the RV grin but I experienced something that I've never heard of: the RV laugh.
So, prior to the RV, I had a 1951 Aeronca Sedan. Nice plane and I loved it but they didn't set any speed records.
I was always the butt of many slow jokes. I remember on the way back from the Van's "free ride", I flew in my Sedan with another couple of friends in their Cessna 170. We stopped for gas and after topping off, they decided to hang back and finish their cigars while I got a half hour head start. I watched them pass me sometime later and arrive at the next stop way before I did. I'm pretty sure that they were all gassed up by the time I got there.
It gets worse, another friend has a Marquart Charger biplane. Yep, it was a speed demon next to the Sedan.
Today, we got a chance to put that Charger next to my RV in flight. OMG! I swear he must have installed a hover button in that plane. I just couldn't control myself over the air to air frequency. I let out an uncontrollable belly laugh...the RV laugh!
He told me that I must have been looking forward to that moment for a long time. Yes Brian, I was...and it didn't disappoint!
Keep pounding those rivets and put a buddy to shame!!!
So, prior to the RV, I had a 1951 Aeronca Sedan. Nice plane and I loved it but they didn't set any speed records.
I was always the butt of many slow jokes. I remember on the way back from the Van's "free ride", I flew in my Sedan with another couple of friends in their Cessna 170. We stopped for gas and after topping off, they decided to hang back and finish their cigars while I got a half hour head start. I watched them pass me sometime later and arrive at the next stop way before I did. I'm pretty sure that they were all gassed up by the time I got there.
It gets worse, another friend has a Marquart Charger biplane. Yep, it was a speed demon next to the Sedan.
Today, we got a chance to put that Charger next to my RV in flight. OMG! I swear he must have installed a hover button in that plane. I just couldn't control myself over the air to air frequency. I let out an uncontrollable belly laugh...the RV laugh!
He told me that I must have been looking forward to that moment for a long time. Yes Brian, I was...and it didn't disappoint!
Keep pounding those rivets and put a buddy to shame!!!
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