On (22 May 95) Bill Grimsley wrote to Keith Richardson...



 KR> in the days when the computer business still had some money i used 

 KR> to fly business class, and they do a good job of filling you up 

 KR> with champers before take off. these days its back to the cattle 

 KR> trucks, i know that after flying boston-chicago-la-sydney cattle 

 KR> class i didn't want to see a 747 again for a while (:



 BG> Have you seen the new experimental 777 in the news recently?  That's one

 BG> BIG motherfucker of an aeroplane!  More like a flying auditorium IMO.



yearh, i think that beoing were looking to airbus to help develop it,

its such a big project that even they dont have the resources to go it

alone.



 KR> 3 sitting in the back seat of an ancient jet trainer (no ejector 



 BG> A Macchi?



 KR> no worse than that, a meteor! 



 BG> Jesus, they were one of the very first jet-powered aircraft too.  Or maybe

 BG> I'm thinking of the old English-Electric (which was a funny name for a

 BG> plane).



yep, they used them to shoot down v1s, i think that a couple of extra

lucky souls actually bagged mig-15s with them in korea. the poms used

them as night fighters up to the early 60s. this particular example was

the station hack, used as a high speed taxi or delivery van. the english

electric plane was probably the canberra light bomber, one of the truely

greats for it's day. last year, in the uk, i went to duxford aircraft

museum (a must for anybody with any interest in aviation), and there was

a privately owned canberra practicing for an airshow. it must be nice to

have real serious money (:



 BG> Bob and Paul (and Rod too, I guess) will all be thinking "what a 

 BG> fuckwit, he doesn't like flying commercial, but would gladly strap 

 BG> himself into one of those deathtraps".  Maybe they _are_ more 

 BG> dangerous, but if I crash, it'll be my own fault, and not some 

 BG> other bastard's.  |-)



 KR> exactly, if i die, i'd rather it was my fuckup than someone else's



 BG> I guess that makes both of us as just loony as each other then. :)



i dont mind being thought mad, its only stupid that is an insult (:



                        Keith



... All I want is a warm bed, a kind word, and a 500Mhz CPU.



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