Chuck Yeager and the IAF

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Bob Fry wrote:
"DH" == Dudley Henriques writes:
DH it's proper place

"*its* proper place" dammit. There are only two spellings:

its -- possesive
it's -- contraction of it is


Pretty testy for a guy who can't himself spell as indicated above - twice.

Matt

Yeah, but the comeback made my day! Ya gotta just LOVE Usenet!!!
Actually the same thing happened to me once in a chess game with a new young
player. He made a horrible move that revealed an unnecessary check he could
have avoided. Without actually studying the move, I rushed my Queen in and
called check. To make it worse, I used the moment to "lecture" the guy on
looking at the board before making his moves so that this kind of thing
didn't nail him again.
Well, I suddenly realized that it was I who should have been watching the
board. He reached down and quickly took my Queen with the Knight I had
missed seeing while I was busy lecturing him. :-)))
I tried never again to let myself get nailed like that by stepping in
uninvited and for no good reason lecturing someone on something I could and
should have passed on and remained looking like a genius :-))
Dudley Henriques

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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And you know it was well calibrated?


Yup.

I'll have to admit I wasn't an English major by a long shot, but isn't the
word "possessive" spelled with two s's and not one?

No. It's spelled with four esses.

I take it you know that s's is not the plural of "ess".

Jose
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"Jose" wrote in message
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I'll have to admit I wasn't an English major by a long shot, but isn't
the word "possessive" spelled with two s's and not one?

No. It's spelled with four esses.

I take it you know that s's is not the plural of "ess".

Jose

Are you addressing someone who was involved with single engine fighters or
smart people here :-)
DH

Are you addressing someone who was involved with single engine fighters or
smart people here :-)

I'm not sure. Do smart people go fly airplanes where people shoot at
them?

Jose
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"Jose" wrote in message
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Are you addressing someone who was involved with single engine fighters
or smart people here :-)

I'm not sure. Do smart people go fly airplanes where people shoot at
them?

Well...there are old pilots...and there are bold pilots. Contrary to popular
belief, it is possible to be both. In fact, in the fighter business, to be
good at it, you actually have to be both.
The secret however, to reaching the "old" end of the equation, is to be
smart......REAL smart!!!
:-))
DH

The secret however, to reaching the "old" end of the equation, is to be
smart......REAL smart!!!

Isn't that another way of spelling "lucky"?

Jose
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Isn't that another way of spelling "lucky"?

Jose

Quite possibly, but I believe we make our own luck, and if we're smart, we
make it good luck!
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"Jose" wrote in message
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The secret however, to reaching the "old" end of the equation, is to be
smart......REAL smart!!!

Isn't that another way of spelling "lucky"?

Can't speak for the guys getting shot at, but in my end of the business
(display flying in fighter planes) we did all we could to take luck out of
the equation.

There is of course, always the element involving the unknown factor, but
those of us who retired old and are now on Usenet enjoying dialog with our
peers instead of ending up at the bottom of a six foot hole in the ground
learned the first day on the job never to rely on "luck".
Vince Lombardi was an inspiration to me as a pilot and I based much of my
career in aviation as a pilot on his philosophy. In teaching people to fly
airplanes, I always taught from the Lombardi point of view.
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch
excellence"
On the issue of "luck"; Another coach, Darrel Royal put it nicely for all
pilots doing airshow demonstration work when he said,
"Luck happens when opportunity meets preparation: :-))))
Dudley Henriques

Can't speak for the guys getting shot at

Well, gee. That was the definition of "smart". Flying where you don't
get shot at.

Jose
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