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Gary....
Sounds like a great day at the Aerodrome!  I also am a pilot, and
would love a copy of the book.  If you can email it to tsult@mac.com
Thanks.
Thomas A. Sult, MD
IntegraCare Clinic
www.icareclinics.com
tsult@charter.net



On Jul 31, 2009, at 8:59 PM, Gary LaPook wrote:

>
> My interest in the Bygrave was triggered by my reading Sir Francis
> Chichester's account of flying a Moth, open cockpit single engine
> airplane across the Tasman Sea in 1931 doing celnav on the way to find
> two tiny islands where he could refuel, each leg about 500 nautical
> miles. Today, at Headcorn Aerodrome in England, I had the
> opportunity to
> fly the same type of aircraft and my admiration for Chichester
> increased
> ten fold. It is a very light aircraft so it is bounced around a lot my
> even the lightest turbulence. The controls are very sensitive,
> especially in pitch, so it takes a lot of concentration to keep the
> plane flying straight and level. It is also very noisy and the wind
> blows vigorously through the cockpit. I don't know how Chichester
> managed to do it, flying the plane, shooting sun lines with  a marine
> sextant, doing the computations with the Bygrave (holding it
> horizontally so it didn't get blown out of the cockpit), estimating
> drift angle, and plotting the LOPs and the drift lines. I recommend
> this
> book, Seaplane Solo, to everybody and I can email a copy to anyone who
> is interested.
>
> gl
>
>
> >


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