Best Pilot Watch for $100

Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Kingfish wrote:
On Nov 15, 2:37 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:

I'm with you Jay. I have a Brietling vintage pilot's chronograph
sitting upstairs unused now for over 40 years. It's heavy, I have to
wind it, and it's always a possible loss of thousands of dollars if
misplaced or stolen.
Pilots just don't need these anchors on their wrist any more; not
with modern time technology. I have a digital that keeps absolutely
perfect time. I think it cost me 20 bucks years ago.
DH


But Dudley, the fancy "pilot watch" is part of the uniform (costume?)
You can't call yourself a real pilot if you don't have The Watch. You
know, one of those expensive, multi-faced hunks of unobtanium with a
built in ELT that makes women swoon and lesser pilots envious.

That's what the stuffed Teddy Bear I always carried with me was for.

Absolutely. Can't fly without one. Mine's missing both his ears and has
quite a bit of crud on him, but he's kept me alive to date!





Bertie

Jay Honeck wrote in
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My solution has been to set the old wind-up clock in my Cherokee to
always read Zulu time. The watch on my wrist tells me local. Then I
don't have to think about it.

We do the same thing, but I've found that this doesn't help me one
damned bit when I'm in the FBO checking weather...


Wow, you can't add or subtract a nmber greater than the finges on one hand.
Typical right winger.



Bertie

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Kingfish wrote:
On Nov 15, 2:37 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:

I'm with you Jay. I have a Brietling vintage pilot's chronograph
sitting upstairs unused now for over 40 years. It's heavy, I have to
wind it, and it's always a possible loss of thousands of dollars if
misplaced or stolen.
Pilots just don't need these anchors on their wrist any more; not
with modern time technology. I have a digital that keeps absolutely
perfect time. I think it cost me 20 bucks years ago.
DH

But Dudley, the fancy "pilot watch" is part of the uniform (costume?)
You can't call yourself a real pilot if you don't have The Watch. You
know, one of those expensive, multi-faced hunks of unobtanium with a
built in ELT that makes women swoon and lesser pilots envious.
That's what the stuffed Teddy Bear I always carried with me was for.

Absolutely. Can't fly without one. Mine's missing both his ears and has
quite a bit of crud on him, but he's kept me alive to date!





Bertie

Clay Lacy, movie photographer, and race pilot, used to carry a HUGE
Snoopy Dog with him stuffed in the back of his Omni Insurance
Co.sponsored Mustang. Girls loved that dog!! Got me a BEAR!!! Girls love
bears better than dogs!! :-))
D

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Dudley Henriques

Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie

Clay Lacy, movie photographer, and race pilot, used to carry a HUGE
Snoopy Dog with him stuffed in the back of his Omni Insurance
Co.sponsored Mustang.


Yes, I remember that. Snoopy was "in" then, of course..


Girls loved that dog!! Got me a BEAR!!! Girls love
bears better than dogs!!

Yep. Also it's a long standing tradition. A lot of pilots from WW1 had
teddy bears, and some even carried live animals with them (presumably to
keep them warm)


Bertie

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie
Clay Lacy, movie photographer, and race pilot, used to carry a HUGE
Snoopy Dog with him stuffed in the back of his Omni Insurance
Co.sponsored Mustang.


Yes, I remember that. Snoopy was "in" then, of course..


Girls loved that dog!! Got me a BEAR!!! Girls love
bears better than dogs!!

Yep. Also it's a long standing tradition. A lot of pilots from WW1 had
teddy bears, and some even carried live animals with them (presumably to
keep them warm)


Bertie

Roscoe Turner even had a pet Lion. Some guys will do ANYTHING to attract
girls, but I have to admit.....that Bear created some GREAT times!!
:-))

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Dudley Henriques

Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie
Clay Lacy, movie photographer, and race pilot, used to carry a HUGE
Snoopy Dog with him stuffed in the back of his Omni Insurance
Co.sponsored Mustang.


Yes, I remember that. Snoopy was "in" then, of course..


Girls loved that dog!! Got me a BEAR!!! Girls love
bears better than dogs!!

Yep. Also it's a long standing tradition. A lot of pilots from WW1
had teddy bears, and some even carried live animals with them
(presumably to keep them warm)


Bertie

Roscoe Turner even had a pet Lion. Some guys will do ANYTHING to
attract girls, but I have to admit.....that Bear created some GREAT
times!!
:-))


Hmm, neverr really got any action out of my bear!
Roscoe must have with that lion, though. Gilmore,after his sponsers, of
course.

Bertie

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie
Clay Lacy, movie photographer, and race pilot, used to carry a HUGE
Snoopy Dog with him stuffed in the back of his Omni Insurance
Co.sponsored Mustang.

Yes, I remember that. Snoopy was "in" then, of course..


Girls loved that dog!! Got me a BEAR!!! Girls love
bears better than dogs!!
Yep. Also it's a long standing tradition. A lot of pilots from WW1
had teddy bears, and some even carried live animals with them
(presumably to keep them warm)


Bertie
Roscoe Turner even had a pet Lion. Some guys will do ANYTHING to
attract girls, but I have to admit.....that Bear created some GREAT
times!!
:-))


Hmm, neverr really got any action out of my bear!
Roscoe must have with that lion, though. Gilmore,after his sponsers, of
course.

Bertie

Come to think of it, almost every picture I ever saw of Turner with
Gilmore, he was smiling :-))

--
Dudley Henriques

Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Hmm, neverr really got any action out of my bear!
Roscoe must have with that lion, though. Gilmore,after his sponsers, of
course.

Bertie

Come to think of it, almost every picture I ever saw of Turner with
Gilmore, he was smiling :-))


Those guys were like rock stars back then.
I think he had to give Gilmore to a zoo when he got to be to big to manage.


Bertie

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Hmm, neverr really got any action out of my bear!
Roscoe must have with that lion, though. Gilmore,after his sponsers, of
course.

Bertie

Come to think of it, almost every picture I ever saw of Turner with
Gilmore, he was smiling :-))


Those guys were like rock stars back then.
I think he had to give Gilmore to a zoo when he got to be to big to manage.


Bertie

I remember reading something to that effect I think, way back in the
stone age someplace. Ole' Roscoe must have been quite a fellow.
Those early pilots really had what it took. Flying some of those old
crates was taking your life in you hands even before you made it to
pattern altitude.
I think it was Andy Sephton, check pilot for the Shuttleworth collection
who said he considers the Bleriot monoplane one of the trickist
airplanes he has ever flown.

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Dudley Henriques

Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Hmm, neverr really got any action out of my bear!
Roscoe must have with that lion, though. Gilmore,after his
sponsers, of course.

Bertie

Come to think of it, almost every picture I ever saw of Turner with
Gilmore, he was smiling :-))


Those guys were like rock stars back then.
I think he had to give Gilmore to a zoo when he got to be to big to
manage.


Bertie

I remember reading something to that effect I think, way back in the
stone age someplace. Ole' Roscoe must have been quite a fellow.
Those early pilots really had what it took. Flying some of those old
crates was taking your life in you hands even before you made it to
pattern altitude.
I think it was Andy Sephton, check pilot for the Shuttleworth
collection
who said he considers the Bleriot monoplane one of the trickist
airplanes he has ever flown.


I've flown a model of one and it was a handful. Minimal power and
massive drag and the wing warping made life very interesting as well. On
top of that, the engine overheated and died after about ten minutes of
flight!
But the contraptions that Roscoe was flying were truly scary on a whole
'nuther level. That Wedell Williams with the Hornet must have been
positively evil to fly. And of course he crashed that airplane earlier
due to carb ice.


Bertie