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Eliminating Trolls (again)
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:36:44 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote in MkHqj.19887$yE1.4959@attbi_s21: but when a small-but-determined group of trolls with (seemingly endless) time on their hands takes a hankering to a group, it's obvious that they can destroy it pretty easily. That appears to be their stated agenda: http://www.gwu.edu/~trivia/meow.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meow_Wars |
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Why airplanes fly
On Feb 7, 8:51*am, Dudley Henriques wrote:
wrote: On Feb 3, 3:50 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote: Cecil E. Chapman wrote: They fly because of money.... :/ *Money generates both lift and thrust..... THIS is the real reason. And let it be known as well that lift and thrust are directly proportional to the AMOUNT of money spent :-) -- Dudley Henriques I guess that's why you Yeager types figure out ways to get into the military planes. The military guys may not get paid much, but at least they're not PAYING. I'd wager the average fighter pilot monthly salary would not pay for the gas the pilot uses on a single flight -- let alone the maintenance. Even for a couple of flights! Well, sheet. Some people are just smarter than others. I'm not a Yeager type, and if you think that money was all I needed to fly military airplanes the way I have in my career you are sadly misinformed. -- Dudley Henriques- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Yeager as in highly skilled and experienced. Which you are. I was trying to pay you a COMPLIMENT. I failed, I guess! |
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Why airplanes fly
Simply put, this is a place for people to talk about flying, and aspects of
aviation. *The current crop of loons are not interested in serious discussion of such. *Neither are the people that egg them on. *There should be no place for that, here. Like it or not there are loons and trolls on the Internet. The Internet has no law enforcement, not much content enforcement -- and I LIKE it that way. If there's a brawl, so be it. It's not like you can't ignore that. There are plenty of tools to help you filter out anything you don't want to see. If you know so much about aviation and flying already that you can't learn anything here, there're a few very simple solutions. I come here because there ARE people who I think have a high level of experience with piloting and I like asking them questions. I listen to what they say and I learn from it. I don't have many opinions, usually just questions. But I'm sticking to this opinion: I get an occasional laugh out of Mx's postulating and theorizing. |
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Why airplanes fly
I never liked the fact that he sailed through life taking the accolades
that belonged to George Welsh. There was no excuse for that. Yeager could have set things right anytime he chose to do so. To my knowledge, he hasn't done it yet! -- Dudley Henriques- Hmm. I'm reading Yeager's autobiography right now. I don't think I've seen mention of the name George Welsh in it at all. And I'm about 2/3 finished. |
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Why airplanes fly
IMHO, Yaeger's life is already blotted after what he said immediately after
Scott Crossfield's accident. *So many options, so many good opportunities to say good things about a great man, but he chose the tasteless route. *Pity. Hilton What did he say? |
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Why airplanes fly
Morgans wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote Yeager has had years to set the record straight and give Welsh the credit that was denied him, but he hasn't done that. This not only denies Welsh his credit due, but will eventually, as history sorts it all out, blot the life of Yeager as well. Both ways, it diminishes the accomplishments of two great aviation pioneers. There's a bit more to the story, but this is the skinny from my perspective anyway. I never liked how he treated other people, in general. One case comes to mind, when he was asked to comment about the first around the world un re-fueled flight, in voyager. He dismissed it, very off handedly, saying, " that was no big deal. They were not doing anything new, it was just an airplane that carried a lot of fuel," or something to that effect. I don't remember the exact quote, but it was along those lines. I vowed that day, that I would never walk to the other side of a path to meet him, hear him speak, or get an autograph. I learned a long time ago that "hero's" in many cases are not what people envision them to be through their public persona. The image is what gets embedded in people's minds; seldom the real person. These hero's can be better or worse than this public image. I've known many hero's in my life. Most have been quiet and unassuming to a large degree. I knew one MOH winner quite well. We were shooting baskets in his driveway once and the ball went into his garage through the open door. I went in to get it. I accidentally knocked over a cigar box that was stashed under a work table and it opened its contents on the floor. His MOH was in there. I picked it up and handed it to him. He just looked at it for a second and put it carefully back into the box. I guess he saw the quizzical look on my face and he remarked as we went outside to resume our one on one; "I'm storing that for the guys it belongs too. They're still out there" -- Dudley Henriques |
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Why airplanes fly
Hilton wrote:
Dudley wrote: This not only denies Welsh his credit due, but will eventually, as history sorts it all out, blot the life of Yeager as well. IMHO, Yaeger's life is already blotted after what he said immediately after Scott Crossfield's accident. So many options, so many good opportunities to say good things about a great man, but he chose the tasteless route. Pity. Hilton I like how Avweb reported that, they quoted Yaeger and then said something to the effect of "funny, we don't remember Scott saying anything after Yaeger ran off that runway last year." I'm also very happy that the NTSB gave ATC 50% of the responsibility for Scott's accident. Margy |
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Why airplanes fly
I was trying to pay you a COMPLIMENT. I failed, I guess!
Your post didn't read like any compliment to me mister. It was snide, overly familiar, and totally incorrect to boot. You don't know me well enough to compare me with anyone, let alone someone I detest. In the future, if you post to me with anything as ambigious as this post was, use a f*****g smilie. -- Dudley Henriques- I can't really apolgize for a post I absolutely did not intend to be either snide or familiar in any way. You're widely viewed as a highly skilled, knowledgable pilot, and so I also can't say I'm sorry for comparing your skills to another great pilot, Yeager, who I now understand that you detest. My posts are probably all kinds of wrong -- but it ain't wrong to say military pilots don't have to put out the big bucks to ride in the finest planes there are, which was the gist of my post in a part of this thread where numerous posts were joking around about money making planes fly. That's all there really was to it. |
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