From: "Gord Beaman" )


"George Z. Bush" wrote:

Mike Marron wrote:
"W. D. Allen Sr." wrote:
"M. H. Greaves" wrote:

i read this in a book one night, an extract by Spike Milligan; "flying
in
itself is not inherently dangerous; crashing IS"!!
just a little quip, but so true, hadnt thought of it that way!!

"Hours and hours of boredom punctuated by moments of stark terror!"

Personally, I've never bought into either one of those oft-repeated
sayings. Flying IS inherently dangerous and anyone who flies around
"bored" for hours is obviously in the wrong business.....

Mike, you obviously have never experienced the pleasures of an AEW mission
where
you flew for an hour and a half to get to your station, then flew racetrack
patterns for 13 hours, then another hour and a half to get home. I did that
more than once out of Otis AFB on Cape Cod to a station just off Sable
Island in
RC-121s. You don't know what boredom is until you've done that once or
twice.
(^-^)))

George Z.

Sounds like an ASW mission!.
--

-Gord.

Or a longwire mission, airborne command post, airborne alert, trash hauler
flight, ferry etc. Let's face it marron's concept of the military comes from
movies.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired