On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 17:54:45 -0400, Poco Loco
wrote:

On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 17:30:37 -0400, Harrold wrote:

On 10/9/2014 5:28 PM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 10/9/14 4:59 PM, True North wrote:
Please tell me you're not encouraging Johnny to take up real flying as
his next hobby.
He has a history of bailing out before mastering any of them.
That could be fatal in a small airplane.


The positive side is that his widow could use the insurance money to
help find herself a non-racist husband who didn't have to keep coming up
with hobbies so that he didn't have to spend time with her. I met Mrs.
Herring: she's a very nice woman.


Did you notice that she didn't invite you to her house for dinner? That
wasn't an oversight. ;-)

She didn't want to go for a ride on his boat either!

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First plane I ever flew was a J3 just like that only much older and
well used. We flew from a grass field in the upstate NY Finger Lakes
region. It's a totally basic plane with almost no instrumentation.
The fuel gage was a wire with a float attached, easily viewed from the
pilots seat.