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- From: ahng@ee.ualberta.ca (Allan Hong-Kay Ng)
- Subject: Re: Stay on the ground, Reba.
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:45:52 GMT
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- phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
-
- >Warning: pet peeve ahead.....
-
-
- Edited
- >I guess it's just that old "airplanes are deadly mentality": the
- >newscasters are calling it a "close call", etc. I'm sorry, but that
- >didn't sound like a "close call" to me.
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- Maybe I am just a candy ass but landing without nose gear sounds pretty
- scary to me. Like a former instructor used to say "A superior pilot tries,
- not to get into a situation where she/he (not gender sensitivity) might
- have to display her/his (again) superior skill." Paraphrased don't ask
- for it.
-
- I am woss.
- A. Ng
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