Scudrunners

One of my all time best buddies is a big NASCAR fan. I am going to ask him if he knew Smokey was a pilot in WW II? That's a solid trivia tidbit right there. He was basically the best cheater ever from a lot of accounts I've read.

Extra fuel in the roll cage was my personal favorite.

I did not see him other than on the giant TV they set up for replays but Connie Collita was at the northwest nationals this year. I took the kids to the qualifiers on Friday because we happened to be near by. Kind of interesting watching cars go 300 miles per hour. The little guy had to use the facility at one point and was telling us how the stall shook when the top fuel cars ran.

Ah, building memories as the new catch phrase says.

Sure.. compared to what?  selling nails at Rona?



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The big difference is in Canada, people with high incomes, pay for the healthcare of people with low incomes.


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I understand it perfectly well, and being closer to the top of that scale than the bottom of it, I'm still ok with it. If someone is in need, they need to be helped. There's selfish reasons for it as well as altruistic ones.
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Since I found out it really pisses weiners off when
I post pictures of me flying shiny airplanes at the
surface, here's one:

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I'm rather fond of that one.  Flightaware uses it.

That's really great picture. I don't understand why anyone who likes airplanes would not feel happy looking at it.

Me neither.  I suspect they live in a dark,
twisted place, and I'm not talking just
literally.

Here's another one, that my son took:

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I am sure someone, somewhere will manage
to take offense to it.  Like TC, I have great
difficulty understanding what the hell is
going on inside their ugly, tiny little brains.

I suspect my dog has more comprehension
about what is going on around them, and
certainly more aviation knowledge:

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One of those pea-brains would no doubt
take great offense at this picture my father
took as flight lead of four F-104's:

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And the haters will be enraged by this picture
of my grandfather and his squadron buddies
in World War One:

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[b]BAD PEOPLE[/b], everywhere, eh Arlo?  I
presume you're enjoying my Iphone and
Macbook Pro that you took home.

Haters of aircraft pictures?  I have the feeling that I came in mid-reel?  (;>0)

J

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The guy climbing out of TPS has this in his
logbook.  Do you, haters?

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Keep on hating the achievers, because you will never, ever have this skill:

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Ref the logbook endorsement by G/C Somerville:  the S/L who was the President of my Board of Inquiry was still wearing his "turtle shell" acquired when he had to leave his powerless machine somewhere on short final when he was advised he was "going below glidepath".  He was quite sympathetic to my loss of power on take-off resulting in me and the aircraft reacquiring terra firma separated in time and distance...  (;>0)

PS  Col S;  do you remember the flame-out altitude?

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Quite high: over 20,000 feet IIRC.  The
trick is that there was a very thick cloud
deck, almost to the ground.  So, an ad-hoc
deadstick instrument approach had to be
invented to an airport he had never been
to before.  Remember that only a few minutes
of emergency battery power was available
to drive the hydraulics.

It was one of the short-igniter Sabres. 
Later versions had the so-called "long
igniters" which didn't suffer from the
flameout/no-restart problem.

PS  Despite all the nonsense you hear,
it was also possible to deadstick the
F-104.  You wouldn't believe the high
and low key altitudes.