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Old August 15th 09, 08:30 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Don Johnstone[_4_]
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Default Smoking, etc. in cockpit

At 14:07 15 August 2009, Brad wrote:
On Aug 15, 5:45=A0am, Jim Beckman wrote:
At 21:42 14 August 2009, Bob Kuykendall wrote:

There's that scene in The Sunship Game where Gleb opens the sliding
window in the canopy of his Cirrus and flicks out a cigarette butt...


The idea that folks used to toss cigarette butts out over forested

areas
is sort of appalling, isn't it? =A0

Jim Beckman


some idiots in cars still do it!

Brad


No worse than thermalling over a stubble fire in Slingsbys open cockpit,
wood and fabric, T21, watching lumps of burning straw disappear upwards
past the wingtip. Flying was also a bit difficult what with the coughing
from the smoke and the watery eyes but the lift was incredible.