On Jul 3, 11:22*am, The Starmaker wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:

Jim Logajan wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:
If I run out of gasoline, or my car..stalls, I'm not going to crash
into the ground!

Ha - I've flown aircraft that had no gasoline or other fuel and never
crashed into the ground!

(I was piloting a glider....)

That doesn't mean that gliders don't crash...

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q...ech=13ø=g3EuTJ...

two die in glider...http://media.apnonline.com.au/img/ne...r_crash_465x28...

probably ran out of ...air?

It's not gliding, ...it's trying to crash.

In the real world we dont use cotton wool.
There are dangers in anything worth doing.
And flying is certainly something well worth doing !.