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Did Kerry make up jet-pilot story? Seasoned flyers doubt yarn about taking controls over Israel
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| Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Posted on 05/04/2004 11:07:15 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: CharlieChan
Kerry said the Israel "ACE" took the plane off and offered Kerry the controls when it was about five feet off the ground.I'm not a pilot, but this doesn't make any sense at all. Five feet off the ground is hardly a safe altitude to change pilots. Kerry is lying, for sure.
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posted on
05/05/2004 1:11:38 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(George Bush kills terrorists. Bill Clinton pardons them. John Al-Qerry will apologize to them.)
To: stylin19a
What's next?
It wasn't Al Gore, but I, John Kerry, who invented the internet.
To: EternalHope
"This is so completely bogus you have to wonder if Kerry has completely lost it."
No wondering about it! He sounds like algore more and more every day. Suppose they were accidentally cut out of the same "cloth"?
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posted on
05/05/2004 2:02:45 AM PDT
by
Shery
(S. H. in APOland)
To: Fresh Wind
I'm not a pilot, but this doesn't make any sense at all. Five feet off the ground is hardly a safe altitude to change pilots. Kerry is lying, for sure. Look, Senator, I'm not comfortable letting you pilot the whole take-off... I'll tell you what. Let me get her up to 160 knots, and once we're off the ground five feet or so, I'll hand the controls over to you, how's that?
(steely)
To: JohnHuang2
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and after I did a few loops, I invented my famous flip-flop maneuver. So, I was able to see everything from two different perspectives, and they all looked alike. Now, it was right at that very moment that I thought, 'This flip-flop thing could come in real handy for my political career.'
"
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and my girlfriend, uhh, Morgan Fairchild was right there with me, yeah, that's it, Morgan Fairchild
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To: JohnHuang2
OMG KERRY IS TALKING ABOUT FLYING A JET!!!!!!!!!(OVER IN ISERAL) DONING A FLIGHTSUIT!!!
NOW HE SAID HE DID A LOOP!!!
I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HE COULD FLY!!!
These were my comments as I watched Kerry say this.
To: StriperSniper; Mo1; Peach; Howlin; kimmie7; 4integrity; BigSkyFreeper; RandallFlagg; ...
JOHN KERRY: Open mouth, insert foot.
To: JohnHuang2
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Well, really, when you think about it, letting Kerry take the controls was a very safe thing for this "ACE" pilot to do. After all, according to the junior Senator, "I don't fall down." I would presume that to mean planes, as well as skis.
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posted on
05/05/2004 4:19:13 AM PDT
by
shezza
(Oooops! How DID that bike end up on the ground, Senator?)
To: shezza
Ha! The King of Denial!
To: JohnHuang2
Tawana Brawley sprouts wings and takes to the air. A flight of fantasy. Designed to scam money out of Jewish mega donors to the 'crats.
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posted on
05/05/2004 4:22:15 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(Exposing John Kerry--> Swift Boat Veterans for Truth---> http://www.swiftvets.com)
To: JohnHuang2
Effin' Kerry is one of the last guys to give a flying ef about Israel. This yarn is custom made to gull Jewish voters and blood donors to the 'crat party.
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posted on
05/05/2004 4:24:32 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(Exposing John Kerry--> Swift Boat Veterans for Truth---> http://www.swiftvets.com)
To: JohnHuang2
kerrys a dimwitted liar
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posted on
05/05/2004 4:28:34 AM PDT
by
The Mayor
(A true friend helps you keep going when you feel like giving up.)
To: CharlieChan
I think Kerry is lying about this. An easy way to prove one way or the other is for Kerry to name the ACE PILOT. There are very few Israel aces from 1967. For this amazing once in a life experience, how could Kerry forget his name? Then the first thing to do would be to check if the guy was still alive in 1991. It's a bit unusual for a fighter pilot still flying military jets 24-25 years later. Chaim Lindbergh?
To: CharlieChan
I taped Kerry's speech and went back and checked. Kerry said the Israel "ACE" took the plane off and offered Kerry the controls when it was about five feet off the ground. I specifically recall him saying just that. He mentioned taking the controls at 5 feet. But, I think he also said "I took off" at some point. Either way, no pilot is going to let him do this. I took a ride in a T-38 once. The instructor pilot was seated in the back and he did not let me take the controls until we were at altitude and in an approved training area. Even then, he had the throttles and I'm sure his hand was lightly on the stick.
On a side note, several folks have said that flying a "military jet" is much harder that flying a small prop. That's isn't my opinion. I first soloed in a T-46 (Cessna 172). It was so light and has so little power that I found it quite a challenge (on take off, in flight, and landing). After that I flew and soloed in the T-37 (jet trainer). I thought take off and in-flight (including aerobatics) was much easier. Landing at a higher speed and gross weight had different challenges than the 172, but It was no more difficult.
Of course, I washed out of pilot training, so what does my opinion mean? ;)
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posted on
05/05/2004 4:44:34 AM PDT
by
TankerKC
(R.I.P. Spc Trevor A. Win'E American Hero)
To: Fresh Wind
"Five feet off the ground is hardly a safe altitude to change pilots. Kerry is lying, for sure."
Five feet off the ground on take-off is still in the rotation phase, and there is NO WAY a pilot is going to turn over the controls to an amateur, of whom the pilot has no conception of that amateur's flying skills, at such a critical moment. This story is pure bull$hit, but typical Kerry. Oops, but I am being redundant.
To: JohnHuang2
While doing guard duty at the brig on the USS Oriskany, I got bored and asked the admiral if I could take the carrier for a spin.
"Well, sarge, I don't know. What's your experience?"
I told the admiral that I did extensive fishing for muskie at Buffalo Lake while at the helm of a 15 ft. boat sporting a 20 hp Evinrude.
That's all he needed to know, and he gave me the wheel, warning me not to get to close to Haiphong Harbor 'cause the waters were mined and oysters were busy making pearls.
So I gave the carrier a little spin, doing a figure eight and cruising south and then up the Mekong River, doubling back under evasive maneuvers I learned while tracking walleyes, to Osaka to confuse any enemy frogmen shadowing us and then I parked the ship in a small Vietnamese fishing boat berth while the crew bobbed for sea bass.
"Good job, sarge," said the admiral. "One day you'll win an award at the Liar's Club convention, or enter life as a fiction writer or politician."
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posted on
05/05/2004 6:39:41 AM PDT
by
sergeantdave
(Gen. Custer wore an Arrowsmith shirt to his last property owner convention.)
To: JohnHuang2
This whopper beats Bill Clinton's pledge to "take a rifle, get in the trenches and fight and die" hands down.
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posted on
05/05/2004 6:42:15 AM PDT
by
Alouette
(Float like a butterfly, sting like a B-52)
To: Mo1
When you first asked me about this, I was not aware that Kerry claims to have 'taken off'. If that is the case, than he is clearly lying. If he was handed the controls after the pilot reached a safe altitude, then he could be telling the truth. Combat aircraft are just not very difficult to fly.
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posted on
05/05/2004 6:46:18 AM PDT
by
Pukin Dog
(Sans Reproache)
To: Pukin Dog
When you first asked me about this, I was not aware that Kerry claims to have 'taken off' I think what I asked you about was the loop he claimed to do at the Golden Gate Bridge in the 60's
This is a different story
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posted on
05/05/2004 6:49:01 AM PDT
by
Mo1
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