Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!rmiller From: rmiller@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: You can't back this thing up(?) - (nf) Message-ID: <6059@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 22:53:06 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6059 Posted: Tue Mar 6 22:53:06 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 07:18:18 EST Lines: 20 #R:wivax:-1923500:ccvaxa:5100017:000:781 ccvaxa!rmiller Mar 5 17:27:00 1984 he-he, what can i say? sometimes they do back up. actually, i have done some backing myself flying wave in a glider out in colorado (black forest for you soaring buffs out there). someone (don't know who because someone elses mailer (look's like it was around the ARPA gateway at MIT, but who knows?) totally mangled the header) asked for the source of that quote. well, it came from an article in the Minneapolis Tribune several years ago (maybe as much as 10 years ago) about a crop duster pilot. the quote was attributed there to one of the pilot's instructors. in his case, the quotation was VERY true! but thanks for all the interesting mail i have been getting, i might summarize it if more good backing stories come in (would you believe a B-17??) uiucdcs!ccvaxa!rmiller