Flying is Life - The Rest is Just Details

"Michael" wrote in message
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| Aviation is not so much an industry as it is a disease. I think I'm
| quoting a former CEO of an airline here, and I think he nailed it.
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| I was once asked what I had spent on my aviation habit. I did a rough
| calculation, and I blanched. It has to be close to a quarter of a
| million dollars. I suppose I could get some of that back selling my
| aircraft, my parachutes, and my tools - but most of it is gone
| forever, leaving nothing but memories. The crazy part is that I don't
| regret any of it. I think a normal person would.
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| Aviators - the few, the proud, the totally insane.
|

Great. Yet another idiot reinforcing the public's opinion that we are
nothing but a bunch of spoiled romantics. Disposable spoiled romantics at
that.

Believe it or not, there are a few of us around that take aviation seriously
as transportation.