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Old 7th January 2003 | 09:25
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Rallye Driver
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When I was learning to fly about this time of year, the field got very boggy and of course the inevitable happened one day and the C152 got stuck while taxying.

I had to get out and push on a strut while the instructor stayed inside to give it some welly.

Got the aircraft moving but forgot about the tailplane, which caught me smartly in the back and deposited me flat on my face in the mud.

Then had to get back in and do Exercises 12 & 13 for 45 minutes before I could clean myself up.

I learnt something about flying from that - if you get bogged down, let the other bloke do the pushing!

RD
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