Tricky examiners

Dallas wrote in
:

On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:42:40 -0500, Dudley Henriques wrote:

Sometime years down the line, one of those
pilots might catch something that saves lives because you and I
traded something together on Usenet.

Usenet might be the next Library of Alexandria... if Google decides
to maintain the database intact, everyone of us could be dead 60 years
from now and people in 2068 could be researching and reading our words
as we write them today.

Your words could be saving lives of pilots 50 years from now.

Actually, I think they'll probably be laughing at us! "Those guys flew
aroudn with high explosives in their wings!

I have an extensive collection of old magazines and books from the earliest
days of aviation through to present day ( imagine what mrs Bunyip makes of
that if you will) There is some very good stuff in there, much of it arcane
but still very handy to know. Some of it is pure crap. There was a two year
discussion in Popular Avaition, the forerunner of Flying, about levitaiton
via mechanical means, for instance. But other bits, especially some
performance and nav articles, are simply excellent. The EAA collated some
of Raoul Hoffman's stuff a few years ago all into one book.
And the nav articles by Weems, who was the guy who advised many of the long
distance flyers of the day, are pure gold.

Bertie