Landing without flaps

Dan wrote:
On Mar 6, 7:54 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:
Make sure the dogs aren't too small. They're using Perigrin Falcons now
for bird control. The falcons LOVE fresh meat!! :-))

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Dudley Henriques

OK, story time...

Way back (1981) when I was an NCO working on various items used as
props in Dr Strangelove, we had guys riding mowers all over the
storage igloos cutting the grass. The problem was, all maintenance had
to cease since while they had clearances, they weren't cleared high
enough to see inside while we did our thing.

The Air Force had a suggestion program (you could earn up to $200
bucks if they accepted the suggestion and implemented it).

My suggestion was that the Air Force replace the mower guys with
sheep.

The benefits would be that the sheep would provide wool for us to use
to get through those cold Northern Tier winters, the sheep would not
require security clearances, and the sheep would be non-polluting.

I expected it to go as far as the Squadron CO, get a talking-to, and
that would be it.

Three months later a letter arrived from the Department of the Air
Force, The Pentagon.

After researching the suggestion, they determined that the only reason
they could not implement the sheep-as-mowers idea was that if the
storage areas were attacked, the attackers could hide behind the
sheep.

Otherwise, they determined it was a "plausible concept, simply
infeasible given the security concerns."

After the mirth subsided, I read through the levels involved in making
this determination. We figured that piece of paper cost the Air Force
about 1/2 a million bucks in manpower.

It was a lesson on how far a stupid idea will go trhough a
bureacracy..



Dan.










The sheep sounds like a great idea to me. I think I would have
considered it even with the security issue which I think was a bit of a
stretch.
As a matter of fact, I think this idea might even be useful in getting
me out of yard work; although I have to admit, it might be hard
considering Mrs H's intelligence, to "pull the wool over her eyes" on
this one :-))

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Dudley Henriques