Why All The German/Nazi Threads?

"Mike Marron" wrote in message
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"John Mullen" wrote:

[snipola]

Like I say, freedom of speech is the bit of the US ideal I like.

Ah, but freedom of speech truly is just a tiny "bit" of the U.S.
ideal. As I mentioned in a previous post, simply riding my ebike,
for example, is illegal in the U.K. -- as is commercial, single-pilot
IFR, flying single-engine A/C over densely populated urban areas,
flying homebuilt A/C in IMC, flying a microlight without a license,
flying a homebuilts at night (even VFR), performing basic
modifications to your own homebuilt A/C, etc. etc. etc....

With all your asinine laws and bureaucratic red tape not
to mention astronomically high cost of "petrol," taxes, insurance,
tariffs, landing fees etc. it's amazing that people are still flying
at all in the U.K. No wonder so many Brits and Europeans come
to the U.S. just to fly.

Actually aviation fuel isn't that much dearer over here. Suspect the
differences in price and ease of access between flying are mainly due to the
legal openness you describe above, better (and more reliable) weather, and
economies of scale resulting from the previous.

Got it, John? Now visualize the closing scene in the movie
"Braveheart" and hear me screaming....

FRRREEEEEEEEEEEDDDDOOOOOOMMMMMMMMmmmmmm!

Now you're talking! Mel Gibson did quite a creditable impression of a Scots
accent I thought. Historically accurate it wasn't though...

John

In article ,
Alan Minyard writes:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:09:45 -0400, Cub Driver
wrote:



Much as modern bombers are all based off of innovations first found in
genius Soviet bomber Tu-4...

Bull!

all the best -- Dan Ford
email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9

see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com
and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com

It is a joke, Dan. The Tu-4 was the Soviet B-29 copy.

I said that he was too subtle... Bull was the Air Standards
Coordinating Comittee codename for the Tu-4. (Cart was teh Tu-70
transport version)


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Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster