DarkSarcasm Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 You told him to count to twenty, then pull the rip - cordYeah, so? Well he's got a stutter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Mel Tillis is a famous Country Music singer who has a particularly bad stuttering problem when he talks. When interviewed or between songs it seems to take forever to get out something like M mmm mm mm m m m mmm mmm my next song etc. But the minute he starts to sing, out comes the most beautiful velvet voice, without a trace of a stutter. In one interview he was talking about his wartime service as a bomber pilot, when his aircraft was either on fire or out of engines and there was no hope of saving it. He said "I picked up the mike and called "B B B B BBB BBBB BBBB BBB B B B BBBBBBBBBB BAIL OUT!, but they were all gone. Mel was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on August 7, 2007. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maj Millard Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 We had a couple of good sayings when I was skydiving. "Don't wait so long that you hit your hand on the ground when you pull your ripcord !!!" And..."If your going in, roll over on your back so you don't break you wristwatch !!!".. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 What about,,, when people look like ants... pull. When ants look like people,,, don't bother! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 What about the Irish parachute..... it opens on impact! :ah_oh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 "Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end" R. J. Wiedemann LtCol. USMC Ret Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 I bet up Big at the race track, and it's got me on my feet....... Yeah! Yep!... I lost my Car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 How Hard were the driving test questions? They were easy... But I had some trouble with the answers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Hey! What do you think your doing, jumping without a parachute? It's Ok.... it's only a practice jump!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted November 18, 2009 Author Share Posted November 18, 2009 A checkride ought to be like a skirt, short enough to be interesting but still be long enough to cover everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted November 21, 2009 Author Share Posted November 21, 2009 Experience is the knowledge that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSarcasm Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Just something I found during my wander around the internet and made me think “Few human activities are as intimate as the interaction between pilot and student, who sit crammed sweaty elbow to elbow, balanced in the swaying sky, seeking the best of each other” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted November 22, 2009 Author Share Posted November 22, 2009 It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky, Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. — Helen Keller, at age 74, on flight around the world, news reports of 5 ***********February 1955. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted November 24, 2009 Author Share Posted November 24, 2009 My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home. — Richard Bach, 'Stranger to the Ground,' 1963. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 You don’t have to have a long neck to be a goose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted November 27, 2009 Author Share Posted November 27, 2009 Experience is the knowledge that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. (The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted November 28, 2009 Author Share Posted November 28, 2009 Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's a reason to life! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly! — Richard Bach, 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull,' 1970. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 War does not determine who is right, war determines who is left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanzahero Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 War spares not the brave but the cowardly. (Anacreon, 570 BC – 488 BC) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maj Millard Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 ' Flying is the best way to fly'..................................................... 'A good landing is just a very well controlled crash'......................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 There are some flight instructors where the student is important, and there are some instructors where the instructor is important. Pick carefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable. — Richard Bach, 'Nothing by Chance,' 1963. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 Speed is life, altitude is life insurance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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