From my vast collection of 40's and 50's era Popular Science and Popular Mechanic magazines (great shop bathroom reading material), a fly in drive in.
I scanned it to my desktop, I'll see if I can figure out how to post it. November 1951.

..But what if the plane doesn't have a back seat...I don't see the point!

Us tandem guys with dates are screwed....

Yeah, no kidding! When I was flying my T-Craft, once on a flight up to Helena... well let's just say side by side has it's advantage's!

Looks like a Stinson. They have a back seat

Tim

emflys wrote:Us tandem guys with dates are screwed....

Actually, I think the point is that you won't be!

Usually getting a idea published in Popular Mechanics is the kiss of death and it never goes anywhere, but not this time. Really, this idea did catch on. The jumbo jets just got big enough that the drive in movie screen ended up inside at the front of the plane.

Good point!

courierguy wrote:Yeah, no kidding! When I was flying my T-Craft, once on a flight up to Helena... well let's just say side by side has it's advantage's!

Did you get your "mile High pin" ? -I'm a multiple pin recipient .

There's a place called Bacon Strip Ranch out near Barstow, CA which indeed supposedly has a fly-in movie theater.

As far as any pleasurable activity ( of the type suggested) happening in a Taylorcraft...? As a four time T-craft owner I'd pay good money to see that accomplished. The only way I can even imagine it could be done is with two very very small, skinny people, and both of them would have to be pilots.

One of the control yokes would have to be removed on the ... recipient's... side of the airplane to make room for the... donor's...cranium to have sufficient free movement so that (presumably she) would be able to properly comply with that specific type of airworthiness directive. This free movement must be enough to allow for full cranial reciprocating motion.

Further, somebody would have to be flying the aircraft during this maneuver, which would require one pilot to maintain control of the aircraft holding the yoke on the opposite side, by reaching over the other pilot's upper torso, with enough room so as to not interfere with the aforementioned vertical cranium displacement. (Note: there is a significant difference between the "reaching over" as mentioned and performing the "reach-around" maneuver as practiced by the West Hollywood Air Force).

Another rare alternative is possible but would require one or both of the participants to be old-time model airplane builder(s) who are still current in flying with "rudder only". Using the "rudder only" technique would allow significantly more torso and cranial displacement to be employed without reaching over. However the resulting yaw-pitch-roll coupling and associated un-coordinated flight could easily cause repetitive misalignment of the male and female bearing surfaces. A secondary problem would be if excessive use of the rudder resulted in pilot skeletal geometry problems, easily causing poor or reduced... extension... or worse, sporadic retraction of key components.

Therefore, although it is certainly theoretically possible for the referenced maintenance activity to be performed in a Taylorcraft inflight, it would be highly unlikely since Taylorcraft owners are notorious beer drinkers, and a standard size AN or MS beer belly would completely preclude the possibility of this activity for the reasons illustrated above!

EZ,
How can I say this and keep it clean???

I don't have a beer belly, no yokes were removed, and she was agile, like Monica Lewinksky was, if you catch my drift. Nuff said. I do agree any other scenario would be problematic.

Its probably also worth pointing out that this is coming from the guy who, in his previous Rans S-7, had configured (allegedly)an arrangement to convert the cockpit into full length sleeping arrangements. Perhaps sleep was not the primary mission of that modification after all...

Simko you naughty boy....

182 STOL driver wrote:

courierguy wrote:Yeah, no kidding! When I was flying my T-Craft, once on a flight up to Helena... well let's just say side by side has it's advantage's!

Did you get your "mile High pin" ? -I'm a multiple pin recipient .

All 4 seaters or more >>>> 1 Uh-1H --Gunnison ,Colo(7500msl-on the ground ) ,2 Cessna 172's ,3 -182's,
4-206's, 3-210's, 2-402's, 1-Beech 18, and 2 ea. C141's. Lots of activity on late night commercial flights .
2 seater would be chore for me just to get into-much less" companion".

182 STOL driver wrote:

182 STOL driver wrote:

courierguy wrote:Yeah, no kidding! When I was flying my T-Craft, once on a flight up to Helena... well let's just say side by side has it's advantage's!

Did you get your "mile High pin" ? -I'm a multiple pin recipient .

All 4 seaters or more >>>> 1 Uh-1H --Gunnison ,Colo(7500msl-on the ground ) ,2 Cessna 172's ,3 -182's,
4-206's, 3-210's, 2-402's, 1-Beech 18, and 2 ea. C141's. Lots of activity on late night commercial flights .
2 seater would be chore for me just to get into-much less" companion".

Gosh....That's a lot of experience. Do you get type ratings for all those? How do we know those weren't all solo flights, anyway?

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All 4 seaters or more >>>> 1 Uh-1H --Gunnison ,Colo(7500msl-on the ground ) ,2 Cessna 172's ,3 -182's,
4-206's, 3-210's, 2-402's, 1-Beech 18, and 2 ea. C141's. Lots of activity on late night commercial flights .
2 seater would be chore for me just to get into-much less" companion".[/quote]

Gosh....That's a lot of experience. Do you get type ratings for all those? How do we know those weren't all solo flights, anyway? [/quote]


I demand to see his log book to verify that he did not log it as solo time, perhaps it was paid for and he received dual instruction.

...remeber to be current, you have to have done this within the past 90 days to be current...or it don't count!

hicountry wrote:...remeber to be current, you have to have done this within the past 90 days to be current...or it don't count!

Yeah, if you're out of currency you have to do it by yourself three times, before you can do it with someone else aboard.