Talk of alignment and toe in and just how squirrely things can get reminds me of the first few times I flew my O-470 Blanton Wichawk. She'd come out of a service, sold with the annual just done. She'd had been built by a retired Qantas engineer/pilot, and I was happy to buy her sight unseen, althoug...

Seems highly likely the Beaver, for whatever reason, failed to pull off a successful alighting. Shocking as the whole interminable aftermath has been, you look at the known facts and in the absence of any witness, credible or otherwise, conclude that much the pity, any finding will be inconclusive....

Old Dog Flying - I've just signed on to this site and find it interesting...and humorous. Particularly the bad mouthing of everything Canadian by MichaelP. I've known this clown for many years and the rant is always the same. Welcome Old Dog Flying to these here congenial columns. MichaelP will sur...

Does the girl in blue not look like she's packing a unit? Or is that a shadow? You remind me of the time at Skiathos Airport that the ancient security lady going through the missus's handbag thought there was cordite in the tampons, a unit that apparently had not reached her village. She's pick, pi...

Cat, you say -

This getting old thing is something I have no control over but I intend to keep right on getting older

Old lag to judge who has just sentenced him to thirty years: Ahh Gees your honour, I won't live that long.
Judge: Just do the best you can then.

Koizie1 The purpose of a written test is not to determine whether a person is a good or bad pilot. We've all done the exams and know a well trained monkey could do it! The purpose is to prove you have the ability, interest and motivation to learn something. Even just memorizing the answers proves y...

The trouble with reading authors such as St Ex in translation is obvious. I am not bilingual so have to make do with "Wind, Sand and Stars". I was chatting once about that book with the French consul from Melbourne visiting Tasmania and when I started to warm to the subject he said, "Oh, so you hav...

2R reckons - As only by listening to all sides will we get it right.And that is why the Judges in the supreme court get the big pay checks as they have to listen to all sides and get it right for our times . And I reckon debates of this kind involving morality will go on forever. Back and forth. Ba...

Jimmy Clark got his PPL at the Royal Aero Club of New South Wales in 1962 in nine days flat. Though raw ab initio, he averaged around five hours flying a day and knocked over the theory at night. In 1968 Graham Hill staged through Brisbane in his Aztec. I refueled him and helped him get weather and...

MichaelP, digressing from aerobatics - With the media in mind, how many entertainment shows are there on North American television? Almost all comedies are reruns, yet in jolly olde England they still produce more and more comedies. So a political scandal involving the sex trade is seen in a humoro...

Britten-Norman BN2 XL By a well-known ‘Flight magazine’. Undaunted by technical realities, the design team at Pilatus Britten - Norman has announced plans for the BN2-XL, promising more noise, reduced payload, a lower cruise speed, and increased pilot workload. We spoke to Mr. Fred Gribble, former ...

MichaelP - Cathay use a CAP 10B to determine whether the cadet will have the stick and rudder skills they desire. Trying to remember the issue of Flight or Flight International that had the review and flight test. Had the CAP in flight on the cover. The piece was titled "Rarely, rarely comest thou,...

CID says - Lately there's been a great deal of venom shot my way by the normal group of very insecure posters and I made the mistake of sinking to their level(s). All that accomplished was more polarization as more associated me with these negative comments and further lies and conjecture from the ...

Thanks Hedley for providing the link to - I'm a Roman Catholic, And have been since before I was born, And the one thing they say about Catholics is: They'll take you as soon as you're warm. You don't have to be a six-footer. You don't have to have a great brain. You don't have to have any clothes ...

Snowgoose wrote:If ya ain't dutch, ya ain't much

Need a bit more Dutch Courage before I can drink to that, Snowy.

"Bols? No you can't have Bols because that's reminiscent of 'balls' ". (Milligan
recalling trouble with a BBC censor.)

Are we lost, or are we found at last? On earth we strive for our various needs, because so goes the fundamental law of man. Aloft, at least for a little while, the needs disappear. Likewise the striving. In the thoughts of man aloft, food and evil become mixed and sometimes reversed. This is the op...

buster79 wrote:it's called sarcasim

When I sat in the back row in English firing pellets it was called sarcasm.

Define SAR-CHASM. The gap between incerfa and distresfa?