Re: Ladies and Gentlemen
Reminds me of one of Brother Dave Gardner's stories.<br /><br />Guy is on an airplane, by the window. It is night and he looks out and sees blue flame coming out of the exhaust (prop plane). Scares him good, so he starts to pray out loud.<br /><br />"Oh Lord, get me safely on the ground and I'll give half of everything I own to the Church."<br /><br />The flight proceeds and soon lands safely at Atlanta. As he walks away from the plane a fellow passenger, a preacher, approaches him.<br /><br />"I heard what you said up there, Brother. Gonna give half of everything to the Church and I know you want to start right now."<br /><br />"Naw, I made a better deal. I told Him that if He ever gets me up in one of those things again He can have it all."
<br /><br />Does anyone remember actually flying on a commercial DC-3 or a Connie? I vaguely remember those piston engines starting up and seeing CLOUDS of blue smoke coming out of them. NOT environmentally friendly. That event alone would freak out half the passengers. <br /><br />I recall my dad saying "those engines are allot tighter than the B-24's and 29's I flew."<br /><br />I recall talking to an old Northwest Airlines mechanic. He could tell, on landing, by the sound of the engines how many "jugs" they needed to replace that night. It seems that the old WWII jockies flying those things would regularly overboost them.
