Posted on 02/12/2021 10:46:32 AM PST by Rio
CitationX is better IMO.
I still have a big box full of 8 tracks in my basement....if you need some.
Pretty much. Folks who can afford something like that have a completely different relationship to cash than I do.
I’m interested in watches, and have been for quite a while. It used to blow my mind that people would spend $150k for a nice Patek Phillipe or something similar. Eventually it occurred to me that someone who’s willing to plunk down that kind of cash for a watch simply thinks about money differently than I do.
My dad was a friend of Bill Lear’s way back when. I still the book he autographed for me, “They said it couldn’t be done”. Incredible man.
Favorite jet I flew on was the Falcon 6 with a bench seat for lazing around.
It was just two of and two dogs.
All kinds of room to spread out.
I emptied the bar of everything but, the rum and took all the Dean & DeLucca cans of nuts.
“My husband had Lears for many years.”
Did he switch to a different plane?
The first time you play it, the tape will break at the channel change because the metallic splice tape dries out.
He had a BAC 111 for awhile, but always a Lear.
The Chinese will probably swoop in and grab it.
Two questions:
1. What is a “snap roll?”
2. Do you know that a BAC 111 is an 80 passenger airplane?
My brother used to work for Bombardier’s small helicopter subsidiary in Vancouver. They were complete morons when it comes to helicopters and always lost to Sikorsky. But their airplanes are exceptional. They just cant beat Boeing, even with heavy subsidies from the canadian govt.
A snap roll is a show-off maneuver for hot dog pilots with a lot of experience.
My husband’s BAC 111 was re-designed for executive use. IIRC it could handle 13 passengers with a couple of sofas that could be pulled out for beds. It had screaming RR engines.
I worked with a colleague who in the past had worked for Bill Lear.
He told some interesting stories, such as Mr. Lear naming his daughter Chrystal Shandall Lear....
Another story was how he almost died when Bill Lear took him up in an airplane to test some control circuit my colleague had invented. But it was hooked up ‘backwards’, such that it AMPLIFIED rather than DAMPENED the control inputs.
At any rate, Bill Lear was such a good pilot that he brought that plane down to a safe landing even under those harsh control conditions. But just barely.
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