Pilots are, indeed, rare...

Dudley Henriques wrote:
Jim Logajan wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote:
Jim Logajan wrote:
Here - pull my finger.

"Refined humor since 1956."
If you will eat a full can of baked beans and stand at the end of the
runway on roller skates, I will CONSIDER pulling your finger, but only
if I can stand well out of the way.

But to pull my finger you have to be within harm length. :-)

You might have a "point" here!! :-)

I have to admit I do see a certain similarity in our "condition". You
of course seem to favor the ever popular classic Samurai "down the
middle" approach to hair fashion, while I on the other hand seem to
favor the more simplistic "Sahara" approach :-))

You set a shining example that, with age, I may someday emulate.

I fear both of us will share the same pate. :-))

Groan. ;-)

Hair ends this strand?

Jim Logajan wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote:
Jim Logajan wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote:
Jim Logajan wrote:
Here - pull my finger.

"Refined humor since 1956."
If you will eat a full can of baked beans and stand at the end of the
runway on roller skates, I will CONSIDER pulling your finger, but only
if I can stand well out of the way.
But to pull my finger you have to be within harm length. :-)
You might have a "point" here!! :-)
I have to admit I do see a certain similarity in our "condition". You
of course seem to favor the ever popular classic Samurai "down the
middle" approach to hair fashion, while I on the other hand seem to
favor the more simplistic "Sahara" approach :-))
You set a shining example that, with age, I may someday emulate.
I fear both of us will share the same pate. :-))

Groan. ;-)

Hair ends this strand?


I'm a 'head" of you :-)))

--
Dudley Henriques

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:01:19 -0600, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote:

Jay Honeck wrote:
Hey, I know dozens of pilots. I guess that means I know 250K+
people! I love statistics.

Here's another goofy-ass statistic, gleaned from another forum:

"I don't have the exact figures, but there are something like 600,000
active pilots in the US. I saw something in the paper the other day
there were 650,000 registered sex offenders in the US."

Hell, if THAT doesn't make you sit up and take notice -- there are
more perverts in America than pilots! That really points out just how
few of us there are, and why we, as pilots, have so little political
clout...

Just think how many sex offenders haven't gotten caught.

In Michigan it's probably the other way around. We list the teenagers
that got foolish right along with the true predators. OTOH if you
throw about half the number we have on the lists, out and replace them
by the ones that haven't been caught we might be close.

Roger (K8RI)

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:10:23 -0500, Dudley Henriques
wrote:

Jay Honeck wrote:
Here is the answer (well, closer than a guess) to my questions about
pilots:

See:
http://www.prb.org/Articles/2002/How...edonEarth.aspx

Using these numbers (through 2002) the best estimate is that 106
billion humans have ever lived on this planet.

If we use the estimate of 5 million pilots who have ever lived, we can
see that the number of people in history to have achieved the ability
to fly is something around .0047%, or 1 in 21,200 people...

Humans tried to fly for over 50,000 years, only figuring it out 104
years ago. In other words, for 99.8% of our history, we tried -- and
failed -- to fly. Yet, amazingly, that knowledge is now available to
anyone on the planet for the cost of a used Chevy Lumina.

That, my friends, is what we call "progress"...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Actually, I believe man was capable of flying much sooner than the
Wrights. I once heard that Iron Eaglebutt Henriques, a shamonyu medicine

Are you sure? I heard it was his apprentice, leadbutt over in Africa.
It's rumored the impact was so great it created the Great Rift Valley.
OTOH some say it was their descendant (whose I'm not sure) the great
French aviator Lardbutt who attempted to emulate the famous Icarus who
flew too near the sun. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your
view point, Lardbutt drowned shortly after realizing he should have
made the wings larger before jumping off that bridge. Lardbutt had no
descendents.


man of the world famous Gravitigotcha tribe in South America once
obtained an unassisted sustained flight of 3,212 feet between the top of
Angel Falls and the forest floor in the year 1688, marking both the need
for more efficient airfoils and for tennis shoes to be worn at the top
of the falls.

Roger (K8RI)

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:49:28 -0800 (PST), Gene Seibel
wrote:

On Nov 27, 2:44 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:

Humans tried to fly for over 50,000 years, only figuring it out 104
years ago. In other words, for 99.8% of our history, we tried -- and
failed -- to fly. Yet, amazingly, that knowledge is now available to
anyone on the planet for the cost of a used Chevy Lumina.

Guess it wasn't so easy a caveman could do it.

And you know this is true because...?

Roger (K8RI)

Roger (K8RI) wrote:
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:10:23 -0500, Dudley Henriques
wrote:


Lardbutt had no
descendents.

Roger (K8RI)

Wouldn't having the wings too small have caused Lardbutt to have a
descendents issue????
--
Dudley Henriques

Roger (K8RI) wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:49:28 -0800 (PST), Gene Seibel
wrote:

On Nov 27, 2:44 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:
Humans tried to fly for over 50,000 years, only figuring it out 104
years ago. In other words, for 99.8% of our history, we tried -- and
failed -- to fly. Yet, amazingly, that knowledge is now available to
anyone on the planet for the cost of a used Chevy Lumina.

Guess it wasn't so easy a caveman could do it.

And you know this is true because...?

Roger (K8RI)

Geico says so!!
:-))

--
Dudley Henriques

"Jim Logajan" wrote in message
.. .
Dudley Henriques wrote:
Matt W. Barrow wrote:
"Jim Logajan" wrote:
Look, if the photos I've found of you on the net are correct, then
_any_ humor you employ is by definition "high brow". Compare your
hairline:

http://www.migman.com/ref/pilots/Hen...Dudley_T38.jpg

with mine:

http://trips.lugojweb.com/trips2005/...s/DSC02883.jpg

Okay, folks...the question is: have any of you seen Dudley and Jim
together in the same room?


I'm sorry but judging from the lack of fur on our respective
noggins,this somewhat august event would probably blind everyone in
the room :-))

We would be shining examples to everyone, though.

;-)


HEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE'S Dudley and Jim!!!

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
...
Jim Logajan wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote:
Matt W. Barrow wrote:
"Jim Logajan" wrote:
Look, if the photos I've found of you on the net are correct, then
_any_ humor you employ is by definition "high brow". Compare your
hairline:
http://www.migman.com/ref/pilots/Hen...Dudley_T38.jpg

with mine:

http://trips.lugojweb.com/trips2005/...s/DSC02883.jpg
Okay, folks...the question is: have any of you seen Dudley and Jim
together in the same room?

I'm sorry but judging from the lack of fur on our respective
noggins,this somewhat august event would probably blind everyone in
the room :-))

We would be shining examples to everyone, though.

;-)

Oh my GOD! I've driven you over to the dark side :-))

You should have flown him;driving is just so.....low brow!

"Jim Logajan" wrote in message
.. .
Dudley Henriques wrote:
Jim Logajan wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote:
Jim Logajan wrote:
Here - pull my finger.

"Refined humor since 1956."
If you will eat a full can of baked beans and stand at the end of the
runway on roller skates, I will CONSIDER pulling your finger, but only
if I can stand well out of the way.

But to pull my finger you have to be within harm length. :-)

You might have a "point" here!! :-)

I have to admit I do see a certain similarity in our "condition". You
of course seem to favor the ever popular classic Samurai "down the
middle" approach to hair fashion, while I on the other hand seem to
favor the more simplistic "Sahara" approach :-))

You set a shining example that, with age, I may someday emulate.

I fear both of us will share the same pate. :-))

Groan. ;-)

Hair ends this strand?

I'm gonna pull the rug out from under this thread.