Richard Dowling
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Kong (that's his name, short for King Kong) was born in 1973...well maybe late 1972... Cessna really doesn't know when but he seems mostly a 1973 bird.  Now he's really a good bird with no bad habits and puts up with stupid pilot tricks pretty well, better than most, often grudgingly bailing the hapless guy in the left seat out of predicaments that he shouldn't have gotten Kong into.  Once, out on the Iditarod Trail, when the winds were a'howling at Rohn; and the mission there had to be done; and several approaches were missed; he whispered to the idiot at the controls "why don't you try it into the wind?"  Well it seems a bit odd, but it worked out just fine; I'm pretty sure I heard him; maybe you would have too?