40,000 Plus Hits. Thank you all.

(MLenoch) wrote:

wrote:Hey Mary. I built a Rogallo "Bat Glider" of bamboo
and black plastic (with a
lot of strapping tape) in about '68. Ran off a hill side and smashed into a
tree :-)


We did the same thing in '69, but we used duct-tape.........we were funded a
bit more (my buddy had a job)!!
VL


Maybe we should form a club of the foolish yet still living! I think the plans
cost $3 and I later bought the Eiper hang glider plans for about $13 or $20.
$20 would have been a lot then, but they included construction details like the
bast way to strengthen a tube with an oak dowell : -)

I'm afraid my hole family as kind of that way. One brother races dirt bikes and
another (Jim Springer) is in the papers all over the country for the big
:"Friction Pitch" rescue in the Tetons, where he is head of mountain operations
and treage when he is up the the hills. I think he ran from 9000 to 13,000 feet
on this one and beat the copter.

-- Charlie Springer

Mary Shafer wrote:

wrote:Hey Mary. I built a Rogallo "Bat Glider" of bamboo
and black plastic (with a
lot of strapping tape) in about '68. Ran off a hill side and smashed into a
tree :-)

We did the same thing in '69, but we used duct-tape.........we were funded a
bit more (my buddy had a job)!!

But did you have a Pontiac convertible, modified in Mickey Thompson's
speed shop, to get you into the air? Or a 1943 R4D Gooneybird?

Uhm. No. I thought about a tow but pictured the way my kites would sometimes
whip themselves into the ground and decided against it.

Fortunately there are no trees on the lakebed, but there's a really
funny film clip of the vehicle bouncing around on one or two wheels
until it tips over and the pilot (Milt, naturally) can't reach the
ground or anything and is stuck there until the support crew shows up.

I remember seeing some very inspirational but rather painfull looking films.

-- Charlie Springer

wrote:Eiper hang glider plans for about $13 or $20.

Wow.....now there's a name from the past! I about forgot who the plans came
from!!
Thx.
VL

"Dudley Henriques" wrote:
"Gene Storey" wrote:

Probably an airstrike against the trailer-trash gone bad.

I hope the Homeland Defense can sort out this blatant attack by Canada!

In all the years I flew professionally and watched people I knew die in
airplanes, including some very close to me personally, I never quite
understood how a human being, totally unrelated to an incident and simply a
spectator or the receiver of news; nothing else; could arrive on the scene
after someone had been killed and offer to the world a sentiment as totally
thoughtless and downright cruel as you have done here.

My sentiments exactly, Dud. But then, aren't your sentiments below
equally as "thoughtless and downright cruel" as Genes?

From: Dudley Henriques )
Subject: 40,000 Plus Hits. Thank you all.
Newsgroups: rec.aviation.military
Date: 2003-11-01 13:31:51 PST

Or perhaps instead, we can just put Mike into the box, assume a
superposition, and then the whole lot of us can go out and have a
drink because none of us really give a **** whether Mike's dead
or NOT!!! :-)))

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 17:05:48 -0800, Mary Shafer wrote:

On 03 Nov 2003 13:52:05 GMT, (MLenoch) wrote:

wrote:Hey Mary. I built a Rogallo "Bat Glider" of bamboo
and black plastic (with a
lot of strapping tape) in about '68. Ran off a hill side and smashed into a
tree :-)

We did the same thing in '69, but we used duct-tape.........we were funded a
bit more (my buddy had a job)!!

But did you have a Pontiac convertible, modified in Mickey Thompson's
speed shop, to get you into the air? Or a 1943 R4D Gooneybird?

Nope, mine was a '67 GTO coupe, modified by the Pontiac NASCAR folks for
the original owner, who was one of their engineers. It was FAST :-)

Al Minyard

"Mike Marron" wrote in message
...
"Dudley Henriques" wrote:
"Gene Storey" wrote:

Probably an airstrike against the trailer-trash gone bad.

I hope the Homeland Defense can sort out this blatant attack by Canada!

In all the years I flew professionally and watched people I knew die in
airplanes, including some very close to me personally, I never quite
understood how a human being, totally unrelated to an incident and simply
a
spectator or the receiver of news; nothing else; could arrive on the
scene
after someone had been killed and offer to the world a sentiment as
totally
thoughtless and downright cruel as you have done here.

My sentiments exactly, Dud. But then, aren't your sentiments below
equally as "thoughtless and downright cruel" as Genes?

From: Dudley Henriques )
Subject: 40,000 Plus Hits. Thank you all.
Newsgroups: rec.aviation.military
Date: 2003-11-01 13:31:51 PST

Or perhaps instead, we can just put Mike into the box, assume a
superposition, and then the whole lot of us can go out and have a
drink because none of us really give a **** whether Mike's dead
or NOT!!! :-)))

Hardly. The reference to you being dead was simply an obvious pairing with
"Schrodinger's cat", where the possible death of the cat is a well know
issue in Physics. "Giving a **** about it" is simply a personal option on a
parody, NOT a comment on an actual event.
I can assure you in the abstract that if you actually had died, I don't
believe any of us here on RAM would feel the need to post something as cruel
and thoughtless as did the poster being discussed here now, which was a
comment expressed on an actual event.
I hope this clears up any "misunderstanding" you might have concerning this
issue, as it will be my only comment on it with you. If you pursue it any
further, you'll be talking to yourself or to someone else.
Thank you
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
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