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Nah, just point it up at an angle and wait for 'em to zip past.

I could see that.

Not really a weird way. Just people being people in CYA mode all the time. Many years ago a friend's child was in his last year of E-school and obtained an internship. He told his dad he wasn't all that thrilled with the internship, because his bosses weren't really doing anything. After...

As I heard the story, each company had existing customers, and the two synchronized thier efforts so as to maintain the existing balance. Of course, they were defrauding thier employers who were paying them to increase sales, not to spend romantic weekends at a hotel in Yankton, South Dakota.

Once upon a time, there were two sales representatives, one male and one female. For anonymity, I'll say they worked for Szekely and Aeromarine. Their employers thought that they were sending them out into the field to sell aircraft engines and outsell each other. But, it seems the two had made...

Electric Cow, no. Electric Elephant, no. Electric Flamingo, yes. Electric Penguin, no.

I had a few classes like that. Required classes where I had to attend, but could do other things instead of pay attention and still get 100% grades. One math teacher called me on it. Told me that if I was going to take a nap, I could teach math. So, I taught the rest of the class. The next day...

My "POH" is the limitations card. FWIW, the FAA doesn't appreciate it if you laminate it.

But the crew chief can refill it in flight. (CH-47)

No, I check the oil level at preflight to ensure I have enough for several hours of burn and leakage before stating the engine.

Methinks, thou are too kind in your assessment.

Yeah, but he had sense enough to jump off the wheel into a rather conveniently located body of water before the plane got too high.

That reminds me of a story I read about many years ago. It seems that a private security guard working at the federal record storage facility in Suburban St Louis Missouri was playing fast draw with his pistol one boring evening, and shot himself in the leg. Instead of admitting that he was a...

Our publicly funded educational system was designed 150 or so years ago to supply workers for the emerging factory system in the United States. It simply isn't suitable for life in the first quarter of the 21st century. IMHO, the schools that do the best at teaching individual students -...

IIRC, not long ago the National Park Service was asking "tourons" not to pet the bears in Yellowstone. Yellowstone, Jellystone, just bring a pic-a-nic basket.

"My one wish is that, when I'm gone, my wife doen't sell my ____ for what I told her I spent on it." -Anon.

Do you recall an 'Odd Couple' episode where Felix gets up to visit the head, and the chartered B-727 is otherwise empty when he returns to Oscar?

Icarus Air announces its new $49.99 "Super-One-Way" fare from Chicago to Hawaii. (Heated flight suit and supplemental oxygen avaliable at additional charges, see website for other limitations and exclusions.)

They are stale and kinda rubbery