--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > <snip> > > > Do you remember the thank-you gifts we were > > > going to get for the administrators--Doug and > > > Linda, right? Twin T-shirts saying "Excellent > > > Male Offspring" and "Excellent Female Offspring." > > > > Don't remember that. Are we sure we were on the same course? > > I think we nailed it down awhile back. I > can't now remember either the CIC number or > the year (either '84 or '85; the flying block > was in June).
We weren't on the same course then. I'm looking at my original Flying badge (gods I was skinny): CAC Block 4 CAE-Iowa Course Dates 7/28-8/11/84 > > Trying to think of other features that would > have been distinctive... Two airplanes to St. > Louis with folks going to the course on board, > one from New York (that I was on) and another > from Boston, had to turn back and make emergency > landings shortly after taking off. The plane > from Boston ate a bird; on my plane, the outside > fold-down stairs never retracted when the door > was closed, and we took off with the staircase > flapping in the breeze. Nobody had ever heard > of such a thing happening before. > > Had to fly out over the ocean to dump fuel, then > land at Kennedy because it has a longer runway > (we'd taken off from LaGuardia). Full-dress > emergency landing, shoes off, sharp objects out > of pockets, head between the knees. Emergency > trucks all ready and waiting to lay foam if > necessary. No sliding down a chute, though. > The landing was smooth as silk, and everybody > applauded, led by the attendants. Pilot said > he hadn't had to do an emergency landing in 30 > years of flying. Sounds exciting sorta. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
