Oh, no sh*t you got to be kidding.  What a paranoied society we live in.





On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Mike Freeman wrote:

> Randy's story reminds me of one I heard something like twenty years ago:
> sometime during the 1970's, one of the pilots' unions was in a dispute
> with Continental Airlines.  The union was holding a press conference to
> make its views known at Stapleton Field (Denver).  The unionx spokesperson
> was deriding Continental as unsafe and castigating the airline for its
> slip-shod maintenance procedures.  Along came a Continental plane, taxiing
> past one of the windows in the room in which the press conference was
> being held.  About that time, one of the wheels fell off!
>
> Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
> Amateur Radio: < K 7 U I J >
>
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Randy Formenti wrote:
>
> > I have had a lot of fun listening to my scanner flying between CA and MI
> > over the years.  Listening to noaa weather gives you an idea where you are and
> > all the different weather you are passing over.  FM reception can be quite good
> > especially with a window seat. If you have a walkman how do they know
> > whether you are listening to War and Peace or the radio anyway?
> >
> > I had a boyfriend in California who used to bring his GPS on the plane.
> > He could tell his exact position and speed and the other passengers near
> > enough to see the screen enjoyed it too.
> >
> > As long as I've got your ear, I'll tell you another story about him.
> > One day he was flying Delta which he says stands for Don't Ever Leave the
> > Airport.  Just before they were going to close the doors he noticed some oil
> > leaking from one of the engines.  He immediately jumped up and ran off the
> > plane saying he refused to fly on a plane when he could see oil leaking from
> > an engine.  This delayed the flight and upset the pilot because they had to
> > pull his luggage off the plane.  But he was even more upset an hour later when
> > he had to return to the airport because of a problem with that engine.
> >
> > 88's N8KL
> >
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