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From: ted@bcsaic.UUCP (ted jardine)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Advice on obtaining pilot's license
Message-ID: <235@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 17:28:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: bcsaic.235
Posted: Fri Aug 23 17:28:20 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 13:19:39 EDT
References: <360@tektools.UUCP> <489@cepu.UUCP> <434@sdchema.sdchema.UUCP>
Reply-To: ted@bcsaic.UUCP (ted jardine)
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In article <434@sdchema.sdchema.UUCP> jpg@sdchema.UUCP (Jerry Greenberg) writes:
>    I will confess why despite my interest in aviation I haven't taken lessons.> It can be summed up in two words: "stall" and "spin". 
>    Jerry Greenberg

No!  No!!  NO!!!  That requires at least four words: STALL, SPIN, CRASH, and
BURN!!!!  (Let's be serious, so I must here put the tongue in cheek, Yes?!)

I can understand people who are apprehensive, and those who may be fearful, but
the only thing dangerous about aviation is the person (and thankfully there are
very few of them) who ceases to pay attention to detail and/or flies other than
ahead of the airplane.  The ultimate in a safe and efficient landing is made so
that the aircraft stalls just as the wheels or pontoons touch the landing
surface.  And as for spin, that's something that the propeller or the turbine
blades do all the time.

TJ (with Amazing Grace) The Piper
(aka Ted Jardine)
Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center
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