"John Gaquin" wrote in message ...
"Jon Woellhaf" wrote in message news:Ayqwc.7120

John, did you ever get to do one for real?

Nope. From intro flight to 747, I never had a catastrophic failure of any
kind. I'd love to think skill and professionalism had something to do with
it, but nobody would buy that song -- particularly the guy in the mirror.
Just pure good luck. :-) Had a few system failures, and a few
precautionary landings, but nothing officially an emergency. How dull.

Well obviously you didn't have a catastrophic failure since your
posting here. But no memorable problems with this machine is
unbelievable. I flew it for four years and had all kinds of
mechanical failures. We had an engine slam into reverse at FL180 and
the cowlings and reverser sleave fell into Brooklyn one night. It
sounds to me like you were not on the airplane very long. Were you
just a flight engineer? Or were you a pilot? Just give a straight
answer John. Your postings are very suspicious buddy.

pacplyer