Pilots are, indeed, rare...

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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Paul Tomblin wrote:
In a previous article, Dudley Henriques said:
Jim Logajan wrote:
I got the humor (why else say it was silly?). I just prefer well
thought through humor. Sure, the common rabble may prefer the low brow
humor, but the effete prefer precision in their humor. Sniff.
Now you've done it! My wife says I can't use the fart cushion any more
when we have company. THANKS A LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tell her you're using it ironically. That makes it high brow.


Too late. I've been trying to convince her for 40 years that fighter
pilots are high brow. Now, thanks to Jim letting the cat out of the bag,
she knows the truth! I'm afraid the fart cushion is history!!!
:-))


I didn't know you were a fighter pilot.

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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Jim Logajan wrote:
I have to admit I do see a certain similarity in our "condition". You of
course seem to favor the ever popular classic Samurai "down the middle"
approach to hair fashion, while I on the other hand seem to favor the more
simplistic "Sahara" approach :-))


Men who are balding in the front, are great thinkers.

Men who are balding to the rear are great lovers.

The problem is that men who are balding in both places, usually just think
they are great lovers.

I will with hold my photo, thank you.

Balloons are quite controllable. You can adjust altitude easily and by
adjusting altitude you can adjust direction to a significant degree as
the wind direction and speed often varies dramatically with altitude.

So why isn't ballooning flying? Is gliding also not flying?

Call it what you will. Floating ain't flying, to me.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Nov 28, 6:29 pm, Matt Whiting wrote:
:

Balloons are quite controllable. You can adjust altitude easily and by
adjusting altitude you can adjust direction to a significant degree as
the wind direction and speed often varies dramatically with altitude.


I thought balloon flying was pretty random, but then I took my first,
and only, flight.

I went with my family on a large, 8 passenger balloon. Before takeoff,
the pilot told the ground crew "meet me in an hour at the Aviation
Museum" - about six miles away. It was a calm, sunny morning and we
travelled slow and low in a zigzag course over the city for roughly an
hour until we approached the Museum area. We flew a left base at
treetop level about 2 mph, then descended, turned 90 degrees and move
gently until we touched down about 100 feet from the parked truck. The
three other balloons who had been following us landed just behind.

I was Impressed!

I tried to figure out how he did it. It was quite calm, but there was
a detectable south wind at ground level. Up several hundred feet,
there was a westerly wind, and the transition was sharp enough that I
could feel a breeze as we passed through the boundary and the envelope
started off in a different direction from the basket. By moving up and
down, we made a series of north and east steps that took us to our
destination. The landing area was just below a hill, and the wind
seemed to curl around the base and took us into what looked like a
landing pattern.

Quite an impressive feet of pilotage!

John Halpenny

Maxwell wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
news
Paul Tomblin wrote:
In a previous article, Dudley Henriques said:
Jim Logajan wrote:
I got the humor (why else say it was silly?). I just prefer well
thought through humor. Sure, the common rabble may prefer the low brow
humor, but the effete prefer precision in their humor. Sniff.
Now you've done it! My wife says I can't use the fart cushion any more
when we have company. THANKS A LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tell her you're using it ironically. That makes it high brow.


Too late. I've been trying to convince her for 40 years that fighter
pilots are high brow. Now, thanks to Jim letting the cat out of the bag,
she knows the truth! I'm afraid the fart cushion is history!!!
:-))


I didn't know you were a fighter pilot.



You are reading something into my statement that is inaccurate. The
context of my comment above simply indicates that I have spent a
lifetime flying fighter planes and that of all the people my wife and I
know, nearly all of them are fighter pilots.

Nothing more "sinister" than that I'm afraid.

You can find additional information about my association with fighter
pilots and fighter planes at the following source if you are interested.


http://www.alexisparkinn.com/ifpf_history.htm


--
Dudley Henriques

Dudley Henriques wrote:
Matt W. Barrow wrote:
"Jim Logajan" wrote:
Look, if the photos I've found of you on the net are correct, then
_any_ humor you employ is by definition "high brow". Compare your
hairline:

http://www.migman.com/ref/pilots/Hen...Dudley_T38.jpg

with mine:

http://trips.lugojweb.com/trips2005/...s/DSC02883.jpg

Okay, folks...the question is: have any of you seen Dudley and Jim
together in the same room?


I'm sorry but judging from the lack of fur on our respective
noggins,this somewhat august event would probably blind everyone in
the room :-))

We would be shining examples to everyone, though.

;-)

Dudley Henriques wrote:
Jim Logajan wrote:
Here - pull my finger.

"Refined humor since 1956."

If you will eat a full can of baked beans and stand at the end of the
runway on roller skates, I will CONSIDER pulling your finger, but only
if I can stand well out of the way.

But to pull my finger you have to be within harm length. :-)

I have to admit I do see a certain similarity in our "condition". You
of course seem to favor the ever popular classic Samurai "down the
middle" approach to hair fashion, while I on the other hand seem to
favor the more simplistic "Sahara" approach :-))

You set a shining example that, with age, I may someday emulate.

Humans tried to fly for over 50,000 years, only figuring it out 104
years ago. In other words, for 99.8% of our history, we tried -- and
failed -- to fly. Yet, amazingly, that knowledge is now available to
anyone on the planet for the cost of a used Chevy Lumina.


I think you are being unfair to all the billions of people who were
born before GA came into being.. You would not have had your PPL
either if you were born in 1850 for e.g

Jim Logajan wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote:
Matt W. Barrow wrote:
"Jim Logajan" wrote:
Look, if the photos I've found of you on the net are correct, then
_any_ humor you employ is by definition "high brow". Compare your
hairline:

http://www.migman.com/ref/pilots/Hen...Dudley_T38.jpg

with mine:

http://trips.lugojweb.com/trips2005/...s/DSC02883.jpg
Okay, folks...the question is: have any of you seen Dudley and Jim
together in the same room?


I'm sorry but judging from the lack of fur on our respective
noggins,this somewhat august event would probably blind everyone in
the room :-))

We would be shining examples to everyone, though.

;-)

Oh my GOD! I've driven you over to the dark side :-))

--
Dudley Henriques

Jim Logajan wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote:
Jim Logajan wrote:
Here - pull my finger.

"Refined humor since 1956."
If you will eat a full can of baked beans and stand at the end of the
runway on roller skates, I will CONSIDER pulling your finger, but only
if I can stand well out of the way.

But to pull my finger you have to be within harm length. :-)

You might have a "point" here!! :-)

I have to admit I do see a certain similarity in our "condition". You
of course seem to favor the ever popular classic Samurai "down the
middle" approach to hair fashion, while I on the other hand seem to
favor the more simplistic "Sahara" approach :-))

You set a shining example that, with age, I may someday emulate.

I fear both of us will share the same pate. :-))


--
Dudley Henriques