Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Monday, September 8, 2008

Popcorn

The air is a lot smoother up here.


But you have to be damn certain that, if you are flying by Visual Flight Rules, that you can get down without going too close to a cloud. In this instance, I knew that it was clear 50 miles ahead, so there was no real reason to run around under the clouds. I have to be really certain of that in order to do this, and this time, I was.

The black pipe you see cutting across the upper right of the photo is a bracing tube that runs from the firewall to the wing strut. Fabric-covered airplanes (or ones that were designed to be fabric-covered) cannot use their skin as part of the structure, in the way a Cessna 172 does, so they have a lot of internal bracing.

2 comments:

Jimh. said...

DAMN! You DO FLY! I am SO jealous!

Comrade Misfit said...

Not to rub it in (much), but that's not a rental aircraft, either.