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To: Johnny Gage
Thanks, Johnny, for today's aircraft history of the C141 Starlifter.
98 posted on 11/20/2002 11:36:57 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska
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To: Kathy in Alaska; Johnny Gage
Re: these old cargo planes.
In Taiwan, in the 60's, my family would occcasionally travel on the local airline, which was composed of frankenstiened pre WWII Goony Birds.

My Dad, being a knowledgable and cautious man would go out and check the engines and chat with the maintenance people before allowing us to board. He would occasionally point out items of concern- bald tires, dangling wires. The response was always the same, nodding heads, smiles and these words...sounding somewhat like: "May oh gwan chee."

Not speaking a word of Chinese, he got into the habit of calling the airline " May oh gwan chee". Years later we discovered that this was NOT the name of the airline. It is Chinese for "No Sweat."

101 posted on 11/20/2002 11:50:31 AM PST by Dutchgirl
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