Hank S
En-Route
I've been hit by lightning.
That explains a LOT!!
I've been hit by lightning.
There are other things about me that might surprise people but no way in hell am I going to post them on a public message board.
I've driven the Nurburgring Nordschleife a couple of times.
I can ride a unicycle.
I've been over Mach 1 (as pax on Concorde, JFK to Heathrow)
I like puppies.
Hey, me too!I like planes.
Driven the Hockenheimring many times (my Father-in-Law was a corner worker), but this was the old circuit with the long straights which went almost to Schwetzingen and back.
Me too...14K feet and change at Pikes Peak.Have been higher with both feet on the ground than I ever flew my Cherokee (Mt. Whitney - 14,505')
Nice! It's a great track for spectating, at a few turns at least. On any given day, you can see a disguised prototype of a future production car circulating.Went to a race at Nurburging maybe in '70 or '71 when the full course was open (12-14 miles?). They were racing I guess GT type cars and those beautiful Porsche 917s maybe, not sure but they were fast and cool. Back then you could sneak over the guard rail and get some great pics before security showed up.
That is very cool!I met my wife in middle school.
That is very cool!
Airline people and travel agents can drink a lot of booze.
They don't do that any more...
Well...bless yer heart.I'm an atheist!
Ha! Ditto - hiked to the top of Longs Peak many years ago, 14260'. The highest I've flown my Cardinal (or any plane as PIC) is 11,000'.Haven't driven it - but I have ridden it on a bicycle. Used to live nearby.
Have been higher with both feet on the ground than I ever flew my Cherokee (Mt. Whitney - 14,505')
Has Mount Whitney been re-surveyed in the last 45-50 years or is the summit continuing to uplift? When I was there a couple of times in the late 1960s, the first order survey marker at the peak read 14,495.811.Have been higher with both feet on the ground than I ever flew my Cherokee (Mt. Whitney - 14,505')
Has Mount Whitney been re-surveyed in the last 45-50 years or is the summit continuing to uplift? When I was there a couple of times in the late 1960s, the first order survey marker at the peak read 14,495.811.
Haven't driven it - but I have ridden it on a bicycle. Used to live nearby.
Have been higher with both feet on the ground than I ever flew my Cherokee (Mt. Whitney - 14,505')
Probably the only person in the world born in a Campfire Girls camp (born at home -parents were resident caretakers).
Cool! Ah, the Schwalbenschwanz, Fuchsrohre, the Karussell. Good times. Never driven at Monaco, but saw Senna the last time he raced there. Done a few laps around Estoril, Spa-Francorchamps, the roads on what's left of Reims, Fuji, Twin Ring Motegi road course, Tsukuba, etc. That last one was fun...raced a spec Miata class in a RHD Miata. Just driving a RHD car on the road is hard enough, but shifting with the wrong hand in the heat of competition is another thing altogether!!
I like Nelson Piquet's quote about driving Monaco: "Like flying a helicopter through your living room." (This, before the days of small r/c helis, because now you can actually do this!)
I'm on year 10 and not a natural. The owner of one of the planes I rent has the same guitar teacher as I do and has been at it about the same amount of time.I'm on year three of guitar, and definitely not a natural.
Been using Justinguitar.com, now I'm using Jamplay, both good but Jamplay more instructors.
I'm on year 10 and not a natural. The owner of one of the planes I rent has the same guitar teacher as I do and has been at it about the same amount of time.
As mentioned in the 3 lies and one truth thread, I'm a lefty but I play right.
Holy s... I just found our common denominator. Not joking. In my case, however, it was not a direct strike. Lightning hit the power box outside my parent's house, sent a charge through my TV - which I was sitting right in front of (I was 12) - and threw me backward. I was fine, just a bit... shocked!
(Get it?!!! SHOCKED!! haha)
I got nothing.
I should have guessed from your Username. We lived on Alex Moeller Strasse in the early seventies. It was a short ride over the pedestrian bridge over the Autobahn to the ring. My wife and I used to ride there also on Sunday afternoons. I worked in the cryogenics division of Aurepa in the Tahlhaus.
My knees couldn't handle it. Brother and I went up the East side (mountaineers route) and camped at UBSL. Made a couple attempts from there, disappointed brother (he went back the next year and made summit with his wife, and easier approach). We went up in early October, it was beautiful but on day 4 a storm moved in and we hiked out in blizzard conditions. My pictures are On FB, Mt. Whitney Portal Campground page.Have been higher with both feet on the ground than I ever flew my Cherokee (Mt. Whitney - 14,505')
Hey ya got a penis don't ya? And all that confetti, just saying.
I just cancelled my AOPA membership today.
I've won several off shore fishing tournaments.
We sold our Hatteras this year and I'm looking for something else this winter. We fished several gulf coast tournaments per year from 1994-2007, it's a lot of fun, but it got way too expensive when the economy crashed!!Do you have a boat down in Destin? I have always wanted to get into one of the big tournaments, but I'm always too busy and short on capital. And a boat for that matter. This years Blue Marlin was an interesting one.
We sold our Hatteras this year and I'm looking for something else this winter. We fished several gulf coast tournaments per year from 1994-2007, it's a lot of fun, but it got way too expensive when the economy crashed!!
I am looking at a Viking now, I wanted to downsize a little from a 60 to something in the 50ft range. I keep it at my parent's condo and they have been talking about selling it, so I need something that I can put in my slip behind my house and the 60 was too wide. The money wasn't too bad at first, $5-10K for entry fees, then they started doing the Calcutta's and the money got out of sight! I think now if you go in across the board, tuna, dolphin, wahoo and blue marlin it's $40K!! Plus fuel, crew, bait and food! Our last win was in Biloxi in 2007, first place tuna and 2nd place blue marlin. The tournament paid $78,000, the Calcutta was $300KAwesome, there is a lot of money changing hands in those tournaments. I'm partial to vikings, but I drool at pretty much anything over 40 feet.