"john smith" wrote in message
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NW_Pilot wrote:
The PA/28is on hold as it was not ready for pick up to take to the tanker
for tanking....so far lots of problems 1 more I gona scratch it totally.
The Buck Fifty is all ready to go just waiting on bank funds..It will be
a fun ride will take lots and lots of photos.

I attended a presentation by a pilot who ferried a PA28 from the US to
South Africa back in the '80's. At the time, there were the usual civil
wars across Africa. He was unfortunate enough to get shot down over Angola
and spent some time in a rebel military prison. Some of his fellow inmates
were mercenaries. The most interesting part of his talk was about food
aversions. It seems the only things to eat where those that you could
catch. Rats were plentiful, but one fellow just could not bring himself to
eat them.

That would suck, A fellow ferry pilot that I converse with has some good war
stories he did it for about 40 years!

Each trip I have done I will remember it for a long long time.

"give me the POH....my fee....the keys....see ya"