Mississippi Glider Humor

[Scott Alexander[_2_]]

So after a long wait, I finally received my new custom sewed canopy
cover made by a local seamstress. It's long, white and pointy as it
fits right around the nose. I gave them the old canopy cover 6 months
ago that was torn and faded, to be used as a templet. My only
instructions were "make another one exactly like this." There were no
emblems on it at all. Nothing resembled anything aviation related.
So you can imagine, thoughts might run wild of what it might be.
Especially in Mississippi, the only state to not change it's flag from
the Redneck Confederate emblems.

Turns out when I picked it up today......... they thought it was a
conical hat for a KKK uniform!!!


We laughed and laughed when I explained it was for a glider! No
wonder why it took nearly 6 months to get it done, it had been pushed
to the back of the waiting list for a legitimet reason!

[Scott[_7_]]

On 11-30-2011 03:19, Scott Alexander wrote:
> So after a long wait, I finally received my new custom sewed canopy
> cover made by a local seamstress. It's long, white and pointy as it
> fits right around the nose. I gave them the old canopy cover 6 months
> ago that was torn and faded, to be used as a templet. My only
> instructions were "make another one exactly like this." There were no
> emblems on it at all. Nothing resembled anything aviation related.
> So you can imagine, thoughts might run wild of what it might be.
> Especially in Mississippi, the only state to not change it's flag from
> the Redneck Confederate emblems.
>
> Turns out when I picked it up today......... they thought it was a
> conical hat for a KKK uniform!!!
>
>
> We laughed and laughed when I explained it was for a glider! No
> wonder why it took nearly 6 months to get it done, it had been pushed
> to the back of the waiting list for a legitimet reason!

Only in Mississippi! ;) I spent 6 months in Biloxi with the USAF way
back when...thanks for the chuckle!

[Ralph Jones[_3_]]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:19:49 -0800 (PST), Scott Alexander
> wrote:

>So after a long wait, I finally received my new custom sewed canopy
>cover made by a local seamstress. It's long, white and pointy as it
>fits right around the nose. I gave them the old canopy cover 6 months
>ago that was torn and faded, to be used as a templet. My only
>instructions were "make another one exactly like this." There were no
>emblems on it at all. Nothing resembled anything aviation related.
>So you can imagine, thoughts might run wild of what it might be.
>Especially in Mississippi, the only state to not change it's flag from
>the Redneck Confederate emblems.
>
>Turns out when I picked it up today......... they thought it was a
>conical hat for a KKK uniform!!!
>
>
>We laughed and laughed when I explained it was for a glider! No
>wonder why it took nearly 6 months to get it done, it had been pushed
>to the back of the waiting list for a legitimet reason!

Times change. I can remember when they would have done it in a day if
they had to put somebody on overtime...;-)

rj