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Domenico: No flaps. No flaps. Just pull back on your throttle, and when you get down close to the runway, pull the throttle all the way off and fly level to the runway. Just ease back on the stick, get down real close. Take all your power off. Now throttle clear back. When it gets on the ground, just let it roll. Don't try to guide it except straight. If it tries-ease it back. Just hold the stick clear back. That's good. Stay right there-you're doing fine...
...will start a gradual descent by applying forward pressure on your stick. Leave your power and your airspeed remain the same in the descent. Just come on in at no [m.p.h.] and plan your descent so that you aim right for the end of the runway without building up excess speed...
Pawlack (taking over the radio for Peterson): Do you mean the runway nearest...
Domenico: That is the runway you are heading right towards. All right, ease back on your throttle just a little...
...unexplored heights almost every week. In Toronto, a West Virginia public relations man named Dave Tork rocketed 16 ft. 2% in. and claimed a new indoor world record. The very next night, in Portland. Ore., a wiry U.C.L.A. senior named Yang Chuan-kwang thundered 120 ft. down a runway and slammed his pole into the take-off well. Boing! Wheel...