Hi Greg My family has always been involved in planes. We live just outside Reno, right next to the airport that hosts the Reno Air races every year. My husband was an airframe and power plant mechanic and worked on the old planes at race time. One year, our then teenage son got a chance to take a flight in the P51. The pilot took him up for a couple of hours, and needless to say he was thrilled to death. My husband then wrote his excuse for his school absence as following: “Please excuse our son’s absence from school yesterday. He would have been sick if he had missed his chance to ride in the P51”. Luckily, the principle of the school was a brigadier general in the reserves, and thought that was a perfectly good reason to miss school. J Joan
From: Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 9:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [QUAD-L] Planes Our small airport had a few old military plans on show there this week. 2 B-17s, B-24, B-25, T? Trainer. There was supposed to be a P51 Mustang, but it had engine trouble and didn’t make it. That’s the one I wanted to see most. It was pretty cool. I couldn’t get in, but I could reline, go under the plane, then sit up inside the bomber doors. For $400 you could go for a ride, so every now and then you could watch them take off and land. It’s cool if you sit at the end of the runway and the come in low right over you. Greg No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.1/1385 - Release Date: 4/18/2008 9:30 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.1/1385 - Release Date: 4/18/2008 9:30 AM
