Lt Little

My instructor in the Tweet was Lt Little.  We really liked his manner of instruction... he was fun... he put us at ease and we laughed a lot.  He did have this one quirk though.

Before every flight we briefed about what we were going to do that flight.  Lt Little would drink two Cokes during that time.  Each flight was an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes long.  Lt Little's bladder couldn't hold two cokes for that long so every flight his student had to look out the left side of the airplane while he did his job in a little plastic bag and closed it up.  Jimmy and I harassed him about it all the time.

One day we were practicing spins and spin recoveries.  He would have me close my eyes and he would put the airplane in a spin and then say "recover".  If is was spinning to the left you relaxed the controls for a bit then put full right rudder gently in and then point the nose down... so you were kinda floating in your seat and hanging by your seatbelt.  One day I pushed the nose over a little too hard (negative g-forces) and all the dust and dirt in the airplane ended up on the canopy glass, over our heads... and a bag of yellow urine did also.  It went splat right on the glass right above us... it didn't break... I can't publish the comments...  His arms weren't long enough to reach the bag and I was busy trying to get the airplane our of a spin.  I put the airplane in zero g's and the bag started floating and I basically flew the bag down to him so he could catch it.  I was laughing so hard and I never let him forget it.  Jimmy and I would elbow each other during the pre-brief and laugh at him drinking his coke.