Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:01:41 -0500
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fwd: [rec.humor.funny] Solutions for hijackings
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:

> Lee on the Left zipped in with this:
> >
> >----Original Message Follows----
> >From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
> >Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
> >To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
> >Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fwd: [rec.humor.funny] Solutions for hijackings
> >Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:59:37 -0500
> >
> >       Actually, there still are prop jobs in service to/from the smaller
> >airports.  Anyway, I was planning to use the jet engines as popcorn =
> poppers,
> >cotton candy blowers and hair dryers.
> >
> >There sure are- as we were coming back from Lunacon,one flew into =
> Newark
> >rght over our heads, and Jim was fascinated - I don't think he had ever =
> seen
> >one in real life before.  Doesn't THAT make you feel ancient?
>
> Once flew in C-47, from Okinawa to Taiwan. In addition to some military =
> personal &  dependents, it also was carrying a small wing and a refridgerat=
> or.
>
> & they're still in commercial use too.  There's a commuter airline out of =
> Cap Cod - I believe - that still flies them.

I "flew" one once -- for five minutes, in the co-pilot's seat.  My Air Explorer
post did a flight from Bolling, and we each took a turn at the controls.  During
my turn the pilot had me waggle the wings, which caused whoops of alarm from the
cargo bay.  Great fun.  (Since then I've flown a Cessna; my mother had a pilot's
license.)

--Ted White