Tom Cruise's P-51 Mustang

Tony Whitaker wrote:
Oh well - I'm going back to drinking my
beer and watching movies.


I like documentaries like "History of The World Part One" and
"Blazing Saddles."

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Tony Whitaker wrote:
Scientology arose in the 20th century

[snip]

their founder created the religion because he was horrified by some
of the abuses he knew about in the field of psychiatry.

Scientology was created as the result of a "bar bet" between two
science fiction authors: L. Ron Hubbard and Robert A. Heinlein.
Elron said that he could invent a bull**** religious package and sell
it, based on voodoo science. RAH alluded that folks were gullible, but
not that gullible.

RAH wrote _Stranger in a Strange Land_ and Elron invented Scientology.
They high-fived each other for the rest of their lives.

cheers

oz

Tony Whitaker wrote:
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But, just to give SOME credit to scientology: from what I've read (not
much), their founder created the religion because he was horrified by some
of the abuses he knew about in the field of psychiatry. ...

Not exactly.

Hubbard and a publisher, Campbell, made a bar bet.

Hubbard won.

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FF

The Frozen Canuck wrote:

"Mark and Kim Smith" wrote in message
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I saw his interview with Diane Sawyer last night. They showed video of
him flying his sweet P-51. It's a really nice one. It has "Kiss Me
Kate" painted on the nose. He had Diane Sawyer in the back seat. He
also had two other warbirds escorting and filming him. One of them was
a british warbird, I think a Sea Fury, and the other might have been
another p-51. I definitely like his taste in planes better than John
Travolta's.




To bad they let insane people fly planes. I guess if you got enough
money............



What do you mean? Scientology? It's beyond me how anyone can belive in
that.




Nope, I meant actors. It's not about story telling anymore. It's about
folks running around spending most of their day trying to pretend they
are someone else, where people throw them into a position of being a
role model based on their work, where in their personal lives they can't
keep it together! Jumping from one marriage into another, living above
the law because of their celebrity or money. Of course, it doesn't help
that the public supports and condones this kind of behavior. A majority
of these folks are completely unstable in their "normal" lives and just
don't know how to deal with the world! Let's put "Mav" in a P-51!

The Frozen Canuck wrote:

"Mark and Kim Smith" wrote in message
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I saw his interview with Diane Sawyer last night. They showed video of
him flying his sweet P-51. It's a really nice one. It has "Kiss Me
Kate" painted on the nose. He had Diane Sawyer in the back seat. He
also had two other warbirds escorting and filming him. One of them was
a british warbird, I think a Sea Fury, and the other might have been
another p-51. I definitely like his taste in planes better than John
Travolta's.



To bad they let insane people fly planes. I guess if you got enough
money............


What do you mean? Scientology? It's beyond me how anyone can belive in
that.

Millions believe in neoconservativism. Which is crazier?

Cheers

==bob

Military P-51's had an 85 gallon gas tank behind the pilot's seat. Since it
makes the CG kind of screwy for the average joy rider most if not all have
been taken out along with the ww 2 issue boat anchor radios. So actually
most of your civilian Mustangs probably have a jump seat of some sort. TF's
are actually dual control with a second cockpit & panel and longer canopy.
I am not a big fan of his pontification, but at least he keeps the
airplanes in fine fettle.

The guy who played Worf in Star Trek, I believe his name is Dorn, used to
have an F-86 Sabre. Apparently Clint Eastwood flies his own chopper and Gene
Hackman, Patrick Swayze & HArrison Ford are all celeb pilots of note.
Gary Numan (80's techno rocker, "In Cars" was his hit) in England and one of
the guys in Pink Floyd are rock stars who own warbirds in the UK.

Paul Varga
Catskill, NY

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The Frozen Canuck wrote:

"Mark and Kim Smith" wrote in message
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wrote:


I saw his interview with Diane Sawyer last night. They showed video of
him flying his sweet P-51. It's a really nice one. It has "Kiss Me
Kate" painted on the nose. He had Diane Sawyer in the back seat. He
also had two other warbirds escorting and filming him. One of them was
a british warbird, I think a Sea Fury, and the other might have been
another p-51. I definitely like his taste in planes better than John
Travolta's.



To bad they let insane people fly planes. I guess if you got enough
money............


What do you mean? Scientology? It's beyond me how anyone can belive in
that.

Millions believe in neoconservativism. Which is crazier?

Cheers

==bob

"Mark and Kim Smith" wrote in message
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I saw his interview with Diane Sawyer last night. They showed video of
him flying his sweet P-51. It's a really nice one. It has "Kiss Me
Kate" painted on the nose. He had Diane Sawyer in the back seat. He
also had two other warbirds escorting and filming him. One of them was
a british warbird, I think a Sea Fury, and the other might have been
another p-51. I definitely like his taste in planes better than John
Travolta's.


To bad they let insane people fly planes. I guess if you got enough
money............

Better than putting all that money up his nose, eh?

R / John

In Cruisey's defense, I have to say that he's always shown himself to
be immensely generous to strangers. Dropping $5K into a donation jar
for a poor kid in a hospital or paying for a fancy dinner for kids on
the way to the prom (he did that in Memphis while filming The Firm way
back when), I'll accept the weirdness if it's tempered by good
intentions. And if he's keeping a P-51 in the air, that's definitely
good intentions.

Typhoon502 wrote:
In Cruisey's defense, I have to say that he's always shown himself to
be immensely generous to strangers. Dropping $5K into a donation jar
for a poor kid in a hospital or paying for a fancy dinner for kids on
the way to the prom (he did that in Memphis while filming The Firm way
back when), I'll accept the weirdness if it's tempered by good
intentions. And if he's keeping a P-51 in the air, that's definitely
good intentions.

.... then, of course, there is Travolta, another Elronner.

....hmmm....something about pilots and pseudo-science........

.....nah...

cheers

oz

Typhoon502 wrote:

In Cruisey's defense, I have to say that he's always shown himself to
be immensely generous to strangers. Dropping $5K into a donation jar
for a poor kid in a hospital or paying for a fancy dinner for kids on
the way to the prom (he did that in Memphis while filming The Firm way
back when), I'll accept the weirdness if it's tempered by good
intentions. And if he's keeping a P-51 in the air, that's definitely
good intentions.




He at least has that. Didn't he once jump into a lake to save some
drowning kids? As opposed to Sean Penn who goes to New Orleans to
rescue folks with a leaking boat full of entourage. I still don't like
actors, though.............