Glider Pilot Running for US President

How do you know he was not much of a pilot ? What are your sources ?

Cheers anyhow, Charles

http://www.motherjones.com/news/upda...02/02_400.html

No need to be cute. He was a rich-kid chicken**** who hid in the Texas Air
Guard, not a fighter pilot.



"Vorsanger1" wrote in message
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How do you know he was not much of a pilot ? What are your sources ?

Cheers anyhow, Charles

On 2/18/04 4:16 PM, in article
et, "John Shelton"
wrote:

http://www.motherjones.com/news/upda...02/02_400.html

No need to be cute. He was a rich-kid chicken**** who hid in the Texas Air
Guard, not a fighter pilot.

You believe what you read in Mother Jones?


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Jack
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writes:

You believe what you read in Mother Jones?


Never! Rush told me not to.

"Steve Bralla" wrote in message
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writes:

You believe what you read in Mother Jones?


Never! Rush told me not to.

And to jail all those drug addicts that use oxycontin too eh?!

C,mon guys! This is an international newsgroup about
gliding. Unless we're going to run KS for President,
let's drop this thread.



At 04:12 19 February 2004, Kilo Charlie wrote:

'Steve Bralla' wrote in message
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writes:

You believe what you read in Mother Jones?


Never! Rush told me not to.

And to jail all those drug addicts that use oxycontin
too eh?!

Oh I don't know. Are you going to vote this time or
just let the court decide :-)

At 17:24 19 February 2004, Nyal Williams wrote:
C,mon guys! This is an international newsgroup about
gliding. Unless we're going to run KS for President,
let's drop this thread.



At 04:12 19 February 2004, Kilo Charlie wrote:

'Steve Bralla' wrote in message
...
writes:

You believe what you read in Mother Jones?


Never! Rush told me not to.

And to jail all those drug addicts that use oxycontin
too eh?!

The original message was that "he was not much of a pilot". The original
questions remain: how does the poster know, what are the sources ?

As far as I am concerned, anyone, and I mean anyone, who qualifies to fly an
F-102 is more of a pilot than I am.

Cheers, Charles

As far as I am concerned, anyone, and I mean anyone, who qualifies to fly an
F-102 is more of a pilot than I am.

Cheers, Charles


I'm with you Charles. Also, I wouldn't throw too many stones at the guard
units, because we all know where they are right now. Also, the California
National Guard was called up at the start of that other Asian war (Korea) and
they took 80% casualties. One doesn't know exactly where and when the guard
will be called on to serve the country.
God Bless them All,
JJ Sinclair

The deuce was a relatively easy airplane to fly as almost all military
planes are. I think it's funny that a guy who shoots touch-and-go's in
variable wind in a Champ---or someone who does aerobatics in a 220
Stearman---or flies cancelled checks in a Beech 18--or used to fly a Newport
in The Great War would think he is a lesser pilot than a military jet
fighter pilot. I crawled into a Mach 2 fighter with around 250 hours flying
time. Hell, I wouldn't loan my glider to a guy with 250 hours. When I owned
a cropdusting company, I wouldn't hire a pilot who hadn't crashed a plane or
been cited for drift damage yet.

The missions are tougher and the outcome is often more grisly and the
demands to think fast are higher but as far as stick and rudder?...no.

An F-102 might be a better airplane than your Discus but that has no bearing
on the ability of the pilot.

"Vorsanger1" wrote in message
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The original message was that "he was not much of a pilot". The original
questions remain: how does the poster know, what are the sources ?

As far as I am concerned, anyone, and I mean anyone, who qualifies to fly
an
F-102 is more of a pilot than I am.

Cheers, Charles