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.

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Dudley Henriques- Hide quoted text -

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Yeager as in highly skilled and experienced. Which you are.

I was trying to pay you a COMPLIMENT. I failed, I guess!

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:46:27 -0800 (PST), 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.

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When I was a 2nd Lt in USAAC I made $150 a month with flight pay.

The P-51 I flew burned about 60 gph at a modest cruise. With a 3 hour
mission that would be 180 gallons. Mission actually burned more gph
with full power for take off an climb power going to altitude.

So even at $1.00 a gallon, the gas for one flight cost more than my
monthly pay. To continue, I probably averaged 20 hours a month which
at 60 gph comes out to 1300 gallons, In a years time that would equate
to 15,600 gallons and my yearly pay was still $1800.

Some of us just loved to fly (fighters) and getting paid to do it was
icing on the cake )

Big John

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
...
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 :-)


I beg to disagree.
Airplanes fly because of desire. Desire generates money.
;-)

In rec.aviation.student Snowbird wrote:

I beg to disagree.
Airplanes fly because of desire. Desire generates money.
;-)

And all these years I've been *working* for it like an idiot!

--
Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software

On Feb 7, 9:48 pm, "Snowbird" wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message

...

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 :-)

I beg to disagree.
Airplanes fly because of desire. Desire generates money.
;-)

If God had intended man to fly we would have been given tickets.

Troll

"gpaleo" wrote in news:1202072499.83365@athprx04:

Troll


He wishes.

Bertie

Jacques: Hi Tony. What's new with you?

Tony: I've made myself the center of attention on an online discussion
group. I can post the most obvious, innocuous statement and it will draw
dozens of responses.

Jacques: That seems unlikely. People are much smarter than that. What is
the nature of this discussion group?

Tony: It's a discussion group for pilots. I think they are full of
themselves. I could post something like "aircraft fly because their wings
generate lift" and I am certain that because I was the one who posted it
that it would create at least 30 responses.

Jacques: Pilots have to be pretty smart to get where they are. I can't see
how that would generate any responses. Okay, I could see maybe two or three
but dozens seems entirely out of the question. You aren't that important.
Pilots are trained to exercise good judgement.

Tony: Ha! I'm willing to bet you 20 euro that if I post the sentence
"Fixed-wing aircraft fly because their wings generate lift as they move
forward through the air," I will get at least 30 responses.

Jacques: Nonsense! That would not be worthy of response. Tell you what - if
you get more than 5 responses, I'll pay out 1 euro for every response over
that count - but not over 25 euros. If you get 5 or less responses, you owe
me 25 euros. And no cheating! That seem fair?

Tony: You're on!

Jim Logajan wrote in
:

Jacques: Hi Tony. What's new with you?

Tony: I've made myself the center of attention on an online discussion
group. I can post the most obvious, innocuous statement and it will
draw dozens of responses.

Jacques: That seems unlikely. People are much smarter than that. What
is the nature of this discussion group?

Tony: It's a discussion group for pilots. I think they are full of
themselves. I could post something like "aircraft fly because their
wings generate lift" and I am certain that because I was the one who
posted it that it would create at least 30 responses.

Jacques: Pilots have to be pretty smart to get where they are. I can't
see how that would generate any responses. Okay, I could see maybe two
or three but dozens seems entirely out of the question. You aren't
that important. Pilots are trained to exercise good judgement.

Tony: Ha! I'm willing to bet you 20 euro that if I post the sentence
"Fixed-wing aircraft fly because their wings generate lift as they
move forward through the air," I will get at least 30 responses.

Jacques: Nonsense! That would not be worthy of response. Tell you what
- if you get more than 5 responses, I'll pay out 1 euro for every
response over that count - but not over 25 euros. If you get 5 or less
responses, you owe me 25 euros. And no cheating! That seem fair?

Tony: You're on!


No begging on Amazn this week eh?


Bertie

On Feb 3, 3:15 pm, Jim Logajan wrote:
Jacques: Hi Tony. What's new with you?

Tony: I've made myself the center of attention on an online discussion
group. I can post the most obvious, innocuous statement and it will draw
dozens of responses.

Jacques: That seems unlikely. People are much smarter than that. What is
the nature of this discussion group?

Tony: It's a discussion group for pilots. I think they are full of
themselves. I could post something like "aircraft fly because their wings
generate lift" and I am certain that because I was the one who posted it
that it would create at least 30 responses.

Jacques: Pilots have to be pretty smart to get where they are. I can't see
how that would generate any responses. Okay, I could see maybe two or three
but dozens seems entirely out of the question. You aren't that important.
Pilots are trained to exercise good judgement.

Tony: Ha! I'm willing to bet you 20 euro that if I post the sentence
"Fixed-wing aircraft fly because their wings generate lift as they move
forward through the air," I will get at least 30 responses.

Jacques: Nonsense! That would not be worthy of response. Tell you what - if
you get more than 5 responses, I'll pay out 1 euro for every response over
that count - but not over 25 euros. If you get 5 or less responses, you owe
me 25 euros. And no cheating! That seem fair?

Tony: You're on!

My thoughts exactly. One could make a good living out of goading this
newsgroup on...