On 05-06-98, JIM SANDERS most eloquently expounded thus...
> You are talking about the "Tree Huggers" and "animal
> rights" types.
AND the airplane haters who buy houses off the end of runways!
> I don't blame you... Another thing I am hot on is the attack
> on tobacco. Cigarettes and Black Coffee won WW II for us.
Like one of our new-hires who came from the Canadian Military and
was flying hercs in Sarejavo... says "I looked death in the face
day after day... how bad can it get?"
> My lungs would not stand much high flying now. Even our
> pressure was 8,000... Highest I have ever been non pressure
> was 41,000 in a stripped out B-17E. Pressurized was to
An old Capt I used to fly with never would go to 41,000 on the DC-8,
(cabin altitude was 8'000) because his "pipe would go out!" That
was his story, and he stuck to it!
~Mitch
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