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  #11  
Old November 1st, 2007, 05:35 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.travel.air
Dudley Henriques
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Default Speaking of D.B. Cooper...

C J Campbell wrote:
On 2007-10-31 17:52:32 -0700, Dudley Henriques said:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in news:xqadnfQMn-
:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
:
karl gruber wrote:
The Columbia River is hardly a "stream!"

Karl


"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
...
C J Campbell wrote:
Seems some guy from Minnesota, Lyle Christansen, is convinced
that
his brother Kenny was D.B. Cooper. Kenny Christansen is in fact a
dead ringer for Cooper, was an army paratrooper, bought a house
in
Buckley, WA, with cash that he never explained where it came
from,
and he worked for Northwest Airlines. On his deathbed he started
to
tell Lyle that there was something he had done that Lyle should
know, but then he died.
Kenny Christansen died in 1994 of cancer. The house is now a sign
shop.
Last I heard, some woman in Florida said she discovered the man
she
was married to for 20 years was Cooper. Don't know what ever
happened to this story.
My guess is that he went into one of those lakes that dot the
countryside where he baled, got tangled up in the shrouds and
drowned. I think someone found some of the money in a stream bed
some time ago. This one will hang in there with some of the other
unsolved mysteries of our time.
Perhaps someday it will get solved :-)

--
Dudley Henriques
Ever seen the Amazon???

Or what beer made from rice will do to a wellused urinary tract?

Bertie
Ouch! That hurts. Pass me a cold one anyway!

Getting on so one can't fly more than 15 minutes from a place to pee.
Bertie

Being alone in the Mustang has it's good points :-)


Being in a C-130 with its own john had even better points. :-)


You multi guys have all the goodies!! I have to admit, "Fat Albert" is
one hell of an airplane :-))

--
Dudley Henriques
  #12  
Old November 1st, 2007, 06:12 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.travel.air
Dallas
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Default Putting the "P" in piloting

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:18:25 -0400, Dudley Henriques wrote:

"zingie" caught in that damn lower zipper, the whole "fighter pilot hero
thing" would have gone right out the damn window!!


You know Bertie..I REALLY miss the "good ole' days!! :-))


And you have the scars to prove it?

No! Don't show us... we'll take your word for it.

:-)
--
Dallas
  #13  
Old November 1st, 2007, 06:23 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.travel.air
C J Campbell[_2_]
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Default Speaking of D.B. Cooper...

On 2007-10-31 21:35:27 -0700, Dudley Henriques said:

C J Campbell wrote:
On 2007-10-31 17:52:32 -0700, Dudley Henriques said:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in news:xqadnfQMn-
:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
:
karl gruber wrote:
The Columbia River is hardly a "stream!"

Karl


"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
...
C J Campbell wrote:
Seems some guy from Minnesota, Lyle Christansen, is convinced
that
his brother Kenny was D.B. Cooper. Kenny Christansen is in fact a
dead ringer for Cooper, was an army paratrooper, bought a house
in
Buckley, WA, with cash that he never explained where it came
from,
and he worked for Northwest Airlines. On his deathbed he started
to
tell Lyle that there was something he had done that Lyle should
know, but then he died.
Kenny Christansen died in 1994 of cancer. The house is now a sign
shop.
Last I heard, some woman in Florida said she discovered the man
she
was married to for 20 years was Cooper. Don't know what ever
happened to this story.
My guess is that he went into one of those lakes that dot the
countryside where he baled, got tangled up in the shrouds and
drowned. I think someone found some of the money in a stream bed
some time ago. This one will hang in there with some of the other
unsolved mysteries of our time.
Perhaps someday it will get solved :-)

--
Dudley Henriques
Ever seen the Amazon???

Or what beer made from rice will do to a wellused urinary tract?

Bertie
Ouch! That hurts. Pass me a cold one anyway!

Getting on so one can't fly more than 15 minutes from a place to pee.
Bertie
Being alone in the Mustang has it's good points :-)


Being in a C-130 with its own john had even better points. :-)


You multi guys have all the goodies!! I have to admit, "Fat Albert" is
one hell of an airplane :-))


The stand-up thing was okay, but the sit-down can was different. It was
just a can with a garbage sack liner. The rule was, the first guy who
used it had to take the garbage sack in for disposal. I have seen guys
hold it for more than 14 hours. They know: if they go first then
everybody else in the plane will use it.
--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

  #14  
Old November 1st, 2007, 01:47 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.travel.air
Dudley Henriques
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Default Speaking of D.B. Cooper...

C J Campbell wrote:
On 2007-10-31 21:35:27 -0700, Dudley Henriques said:

C J Campbell wrote:
On 2007-10-31 17:52:32 -0700, Dudley Henriques
said:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in news:xqadnfQMn-
:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
:
karl gruber wrote:
The Columbia River is hardly a "stream!"

Karl


"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
...
C J Campbell wrote:
Seems some guy from Minnesota, Lyle Christansen, is convinced
that
his brother Kenny was D.B. Cooper. Kenny Christansen is in
fact a
dead ringer for Cooper, was an army paratrooper, bought a house
in
Buckley, WA, with cash that he never explained where it came
from,
and he worked for Northwest Airlines. On his deathbed he started
to
tell Lyle that there was something he had done that Lyle should
know, but then he died.
Kenny Christansen died in 1994 of cancer. The house is now a
sign
shop.
Last I heard, some woman in Florida said she discovered the man
she
was married to for 20 years was Cooper. Don't know what ever
happened to this story.
My guess is that he went into one of those lakes that dot the
countryside where he baled, got tangled up in the shrouds and
drowned. I think someone found some of the money in a stream bed
some time ago. This one will hang in there with some of the other
unsolved mysteries of our time.
Perhaps someday it will get solved :-)

--
Dudley Henriques
Ever seen the Amazon???

Or what beer made from rice will do to a wellused urinary tract?

Bertie
Ouch! That hurts. Pass me a cold one anyway!

Getting on so one can't fly more than 15 minutes from a place to pee.
Bertie
Being alone in the Mustang has it's good points :-)

Being in a C-130 with its own john had even better points. :-)


You multi guys have all the goodies!! I have to admit, "Fat Albert" is
one hell of an airplane :-))


The stand-up thing was okay, but the sit-down can was different. It was
just a can with a garbage sack liner. The rule was, the first guy who
used it had to take the garbage sack in for disposal. I have seen guys
hold it for more than 14 hours. They know: if they go first then
everybody else in the plane will use it.


I think this is what they call "Military Intelligence"
:-)

--
Dudley Henriques
  #15  
Old November 2nd, 2007, 01:59 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.travel.air
Gatt
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Default Putting the "P" in piloting


"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
...

Man, you haven't pee'd till you've pee'd into one of those funny looking
red plastic pee containers at 30 thousand in an unpressurized cockpit on
the way to a show site.


I wondered how the fighter pilots managed that sort of thing.

The author of "Wing Ding"--a rascal of a gentleman who was a B-17
tailgunner--told me the first time he saw a FW-190 he was suffering from
severe gas cramps and trying to take a dump in his flak helmet--armor, mae
west, flying suit, bunny suit, uniform, long johns, all down-- and trying
not to touch bare skin to metal.

Apparently it had an amazing laxative effect.

-c


  #16  
Old November 2nd, 2007, 04:05 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.travel.air
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
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Default Putting the "P" in piloting

Gatt wrote:
Apparently it had an amazing laxative effect.



Alright... a true story. It happened to the guy who taught me how to fly along
with a good friend of mine back in the day when he and I were both building
hours towards a charter job at our FBO.

There was a junk yard across from the airport that had an owner who drank too
much and required periodic trips to a hospital to be dried out. He was
successful financially so his family didn't mind spending money on his care.

One afternoon, my old instructor Terry was asked by his boss to fly down to New
Orleans in one of the Twin Commanches, pick up the drunk and then fly him back
to a private facility in Statesboro, GA. He asked John to go along for the ride
and to help control the sot once they'd found him.

The flight from South Carolina to New Orleans was uneventful. They even found
their target when they got down there so they loaded him into the back of the
twin. He was drunk but happily compliant. Terry figured the best thing to do
was to go high and let the thin air put the drunk to sleep, so he climbed up to
10,000 in the night sky. The drunk either passed out or went to sleep. So far
so good.

But not for long. At some point he woke up and told Terry he needed to "land
this thing". "Why?", asked Terry. "I've got to go to the bathroom", said the
drunk. Well, they weren't inclined to land just for that so John gave him a
coke bottle to use. Silence from the back.

All of the sudden, there came the most horrendous odor from the back of the
plane. The drunk was trying to **** into the coke bottle! I have to tell you
his best efforts weren't good enough. I suspect if there had been an ejection
seat, it would have been used that night.

Consternation in the cockpit: they handed him a chart to wipe himself and made
a beeline for Statesboro. When they got there, the drunk steadied himself on
the side of the airplane leaving as brown streak smeared down the side. John
and Terry delivered him to the hospital posthaste.

They then flew the newly decorated twin back to our FBO, where they arrived
about 15 minutes before the boss did. They parked the aircraft immediately in
front of the FBO and beat a hasty retreat to their homes, where the phones were
taken off the hooks.

True story. I didn't even change the names as there were no innocents. G



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com


  #17  
Old November 2nd, 2007, 04:13 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.travel.air
ManhattanMan
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Default Putting the "P" in piloting

Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:
of the plane. The drunk was trying to **** into the coke bottle!


OMG - there is drunk, and there is DRUNK!!! I don't know how anyone could
stay concious and be that dumb!!


  #18  
Old November 3rd, 2007, 03:47 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.travel.air
Paul kgyy
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One of the nuisance elements of the lil red bottle is that ATC always
"knows" when it's in use. You can be cruising for half an hour
without a peep on the radio, and the minute you get hooked up and let
go, you get this call: "Arrow 87Xray, we have an amended clearance
for you; are you ready to copy?"

"Ummmm, Arrow 87Xray, stand by"

  #19  
Old November 3rd, 2007, 06:04 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.travel.air
Matt Whiting
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Default Putting the "P" in piloting

Paul kgyy wrote:
One of the nuisance elements of the lil red bottle is that ATC always
"knows" when it's in use. You can be cruising for half an hour
without a peep on the radio, and the minute you get hooked up and let
go, you get this call: "Arrow 87Xray, we have an amended clearance
for you; are you ready to copy?"

"Ummmm, Arrow 87Xray, stand by"


"ATC, negative on the amendment, we're fine with our current flight plan."

Matt
 




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