Maturity Journal 5.18
May 2018 Issue of the Maturity Journal
May 2018 Issue of the Maturity Journal
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<strong>Maturity</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
Page 26 May 2018<br />
ground in the background. It was a<br />
great sigh of relief when he popped<br />
his main chute and landed by the ‘X’<br />
that we had carved into the snow.<br />
J-3’s were designed to fly ‘solo’<br />
from the rear seat. Landing the J-3<br />
in the snow, with only the front seat<br />
occupied, was a pretty good challenge<br />
with the center of gravity so<br />
far forward. However, with the ‘balloon’<br />
tires and plenty of power, the<br />
soft field landing went off without<br />
a hitch.<br />
The soldier repacked his chute<br />
by the gas pump and asked if we<br />
could go again. Only those of us who<br />
witnessed the event had a concern<br />
about the snow that was packed in<br />
along with his chute and the possibility<br />
of it freezing the fabric together.<br />
But he wasn’t worried. We made<br />
a total of three trips that day.<br />
Every winter day that I go back<br />
to or drive near Skylane, I think<br />
about that cold day that provided all<br />
of us ‘hanger-flyers’ with our excitement<br />
for the day when a ‘stranger<br />
dropped in’.<br />
At 78 years of age, I have hundreds<br />
of memories of Skylane, from<br />
soloing in an L-2 Taylorcraft at age<br />
sixteen as a junior at Reitz High<br />
School, to our ‘bombing’ contests<br />
with bags of flour, to soloing Bruce<br />
Epmeier on his 16th birthday when<br />
I was a flight instructor, to flying<br />
with my son-in-law, John Hahn.<br />
This story describes one of those<br />
great ‘Skylane memories’ from the<br />
past.<br />
(Earl Pfettscher is a former<br />
commercial pilot, flight instructor,<br />
Evansville teacher, Warrick County<br />
principal and retired Indiana school<br />
superintendent. After living in<br />
Newburgh for 46 years, he (Reitz-<br />
1957) and his wife, Darlene (Mater<br />
Dei-1958), moved ‘back home’ to the<br />
west side of Evansville in November,<br />
2016. They have two daughters, Jill<br />
Pfettscher Hahn, Rebecca Pfettscher<br />
Bailey, and six grandchildren. MJ<br />
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