New Gliderport

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Doris and I have purchased a very desirable piece of land at the base of the ridge just south of Bluefield W.Virginia. This is almost exactly 500 kilometers from Ridge Soaring Gliderport, making it possible for pilots to declare a 500 km goal flight in even a low performance glider like a Schweizer 1-26.

The ridge here is very much higher and steeper than those in Pennsylvania. Frequent strong Easterly winds create great wave conditions.

Choosing weather wisely, so another ridge day follows, a pilot can spend the night dining on Southern Grits, B-BQ'd Pork, and cheap home-made whisky straight from the many secret country stills in the hills nearby.

The property is perfectly laid out with a long, flat runway. Twenty acres along the northern edge is cultivated and planted in an imported Italian spaghetti plant, which thrives in the area. Profits from the sale of the special kind of spaghetti means there is a large profit each year from farming, so it will not be necessary to charge for tows, or tie downs.

Tom Knauff

[Z Goudie[_2_]]

At 11:43 01 April 2014, wrote:

Hunt the Gowk isn't just a Scottish Custom then?

>Doris and I have purchased a very desirable piece of land at the base of
>th=
>e ridge just south of Bluefield W.Virginia. This is almost exactly 500
>kilo=
>meters from Ridge Soaring Gliderport, making it possible for pilots to
>decl=
>are a 500 km goal flight in even a low performance glider like a
Schweizer
>=
>1-26.
>
>The ridge here is very much higher and steeper than those in
Pennsylvania.
>=
>Frequent strong Easterly winds create great wave conditions.
>
>Choosing weather wisely, so another ridge day follows, a pilot can spend
>t=
>he night dining on Southern Grits, B-BQ'd Pork, and cheap home-made
whisky
>=
>straight from the many secret country stills in the hills nearby.
>
>The property is perfectly laid out with a long, flat runway. Twenty acres
>a=
>long the northern edge is cultivated and planted in an imported Italian
>spa=
>ghetti plant, which thrives in the area. Profits from the sale of the
>speci=
>al kind of spaghetti means there is a large profit each year from
farming,
>=
>so it will not be necessary to charge for tows, or tie downs.
>
>Tom Knauff
>

[Tom (2NO)]

What?? ohhh today is... well played Mr. Knauff, well played.

[Steve Leonard[_2_]]

On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 6:43:01 AM UTC-5, wrote:
> Twenty acres along the northern edge is cultivated and planted in an imported Italian spaghetti plant, which thrives in the area. Profits from the sale of the special kind of spaghetti means there is a large profit each year from farming, so it will not be necessary to charge for tows, or tie downs. Tom Knauff

Let us hope that this new land does not ever see the dreaded Spaghetti Weevil.

Best to you and Doris in this new year, Tom!

Steve Leonard

[Evan Ludeman[_4_]]

You forgot the part about the new, discount Schleicher dealer on premises....

T8

[James Metcalfe]

Credit due to the BBC, methinks. They did the spaghetti plant
(well, tree, actually) in 1957, complete with weevil scare!

[BobW]

On 4/1/2014 5:43 AM, wrote:
> Doris and I have purchased a very desirable piece of land at the base of
> the ridge just south of Bluefield W.Virginia.

<Snip...>

> The property is perfectly laid out with a long, flat runway. Twenty acres
> along the northern edge is cultivated and planted in an imported Italian
> spaghetti plant, which thrives in the area. Profits from the sale of the
> special kind of spaghetti means there is a large profit each year from
> farming, so it will not be necessary to charge for tows, or tie downs.
>
> Tom Knauff
>

You might wish to check into the denomination below should you look for a new
congregation for your Sabbaths...

http://www.venganza.org/

No need to thank me!

Bob W.

[Boise Pilot]

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26723188On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 8:46:37 AM UTC-6, James Metcalfe wrote:
> Credit due to the BBC, methinks. They did the spaghetti plant
>
> (well, tree, actually) in 1957, complete with weevil scare!

Here it is...

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26723188

[Tom[_12_]]

For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily use by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing. When a great orator makes a great speech you are listening to ten centuries and ten thousand men -- but we call it his speech, and really some exceedingly small portion of it is his.

(Mark Twain's Letters, Vol. 2 of 2)

[Don Johnstone[_4_]]

At 11:43 01 April 2014, wrote:
>Doris and I have purchased a very desirable piece of land at the base of
>th=
>e ridge just south of Bluefield W.Virginia. This is almost exactly 500
>kilo=
>meters from Ridge Soaring Gliderport, making it possible for pilots to
>decl=
>are a 500 km goal flight in even a low performance glider like a
Schweizer
>=
>1-26.
>
>The ridge here is very much higher and steeper than those in
Pennsylvania.
>=
>Frequent strong Easterly winds create great wave conditions.
>
>Choosing weather wisely, so another ridge day follows, a pilot can spend
>t=
>he night dining on Southern Grits, B-BQ'd Pork, and cheap home-made
whisky
>=
>straight from the many secret country stills in the hills nearby.
>
>The property is perfectly laid out with a long, flat runway. Twenty acres
>a=
>long the northern edge is cultivated and planted in an imported Italian
>spa=
>ghetti plant, which thrives in the area. Profits from the sale of the
>speci=
>al kind of spaghetti means there is a large profit each year from
farming,
>=
>so it will not be necessary to charge for tows, or tie downs.
>
>Tom Knauff

Ah the good old spaghetti plant. Goes well with the clockwise and
anticlockwise Haggi

[[email protected]]

On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 7:43:01 AM UTC-4, wrote:
> Doris and I have purchased a very desirable piece of land at the base of the ridge just south of Bluefield W.Virginia. This is almost exactly 500 kilometers from Ridge Soaring Gliderport, making it possible for pilots to declare a 500 km goal flight in even a low performance glider like a Schweizer 1-26. The ridge here is very much higher and steeper than those in Pennsylvania. Frequent strong Easterly winds create great wave conditions. Choosing weather wisely, so another ridge day follows, a pilot can spend the night dining on Southern Grits, B-BQ'd Pork, and cheap home-made whisky straight from the many secret country stills in the hills nearby. The property is perfectly laid out with a long, flat runway. Twenty acres along the northern edge is cultivated and planted in an imported Italian spaghetti plant, which thrives in the area. Profits from the sale of the special kind of spaghetti means there is a large profit each year from farming, so it will not be necessary to charge for tows, or tie downs. Tom Knauff

You have, after all these years, finally realized there is more money in spaghetti farming than there is in being in the soaring business.
A hearty well done for your insight.
UH

[Christopher Giacomo]

You have to be careful with those sorts of pranks... you almost got hit by my wallet coming through the computer at you...
Giacomo (MW)

[son_of_flubber]

For future reference (April 1, 2015). I quote from the longstanding 'International Treaty on April Fool's Jokes' (Ratified by the United Nations September 1907)

"To maximize impact of the jokester's effort, signatories agree to let the joke stand uncommented (and/or build on it) until April 2."

[Tom[_12_]]

Amazing response to this April 1 posting. Of course there is no truth to it.

I was surprised when someone noted the oval shaped mountains, south of Bluefield.

There is an airport located there called "Burkes Garden."

This oval shape was caused by the collapse of a giant subterranean limestone cavern system.

Geologist say the local mountains were as high as 39,000 feet high eons ago, and have eroded to their present size.

When they erode down to nothing, and Ridge Soaring Gliderport is located on beach front property, the property will be very valuable.

Until next year,
Tom Knauff