On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:51:28 -0500, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:

Larry Jaques fired this volley in
:

The Bernoulli principle ensures that
you'll have blue balls from the effort, though, with all that cool air
flowing over 'em so quickl

Larry, just landing that successfully, and then seeing the wing missing
would have given me blue balls! G

I see no reason why it wouldn't.


I've had one cockpit electrical fire in the air, and one high-speed
malfunction deployment of my landing gear at about 60 knots over the
maximum allowable speed at which to deploy the gear. Neither caused me
any injury -- only a few very tense moments. (Well, in the case of the
gear emergency, it took a half-hour, and three low passes over the tower
in Sarasota to ensure I had everything down and locked. I only had two
lights!)

Yeah, tense. Too bad it couldn't have been a few high-speed buzz runs
past the tower, with all parts in working order, eh?

Dad and I were on an Aero Mexico flight from LaPaz to TJ (our
boys-only vacation one year) and they were out of beer. The way the
pilot flew, I was certain that he alone had drank it all. In TJ, he
nearly overshot the runway, put her down on one wheel, and I could
have sworn he was going to take us into the sand at the end of the
runway. I swear the nose of the plane was hanging over the end when he
pirouetted it in place far enough to get us rolling. That nose wheel
was at 90 degrees from normal all that time. Dad was Air Force and he
disagreed with my estimation of the landing. I gave it 1 point out of
10, he gave it a 3. His reasoning: the plane still had all its parts.


Both were simple, non-fatal, not-control-surface, not-engine-failure
emergencies that scared the Sh*T out of me. I handled them, sure --
that's only training. But I can't even imagine how scary it must be to
survive a mid-air, and still retain control!

Oh, no kidding!

--
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by
surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets
if you don't yell going through the door.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold