Bill
re pilots racecar drivers and doctors
One of our historic racers (Sunbeam Alpine) is also a Qantas Flight Captain.
A couple of years ago he was failed at his annual competition medical
examination.
That must mean all those who did not fail were superfit! Thats what we like
to thin
Andrew Gibson TR3A TR4----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: "mordy dunst/ gasket works" <gasket.works@verizon.net>;
<fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 6:25 AM
Subject: RE: story
> There is a good reason why they call those planes with the V tail "split
> tail doctor killers".
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
> Of mordy dunst/ gasket works
> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 9:21 AM
> To: fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: story
>
> btw... my patient the x15 pilot... We were talking of stuff and just "chit
> chatting" together with his wife this past friday afternoon.
>
> I told him how I live really close to the hospital and how my wife has
> hackney horses ... carriages and things. so, he tells me he knows about
> the
> hackney horses.. I commented that it is unusual for people to know about
> them.
> He said that he used to be a 1/4 horse jockey near mansfield,Ohio. So,
I
> said that is just a stones throw from lexington Ohio where the Mid Ohio
race
> track is ..... "Oh yea" he says. "I watched that place grow up" .
any
> ways I said that our Triumph race car group raced there not long ago.
> "Raced?" he comments. "a Triumph TR4'' I mention.
>
> then he says. "I always wanted to be a race car driver". I reply, " I
> always
> wanted to be a pilot". He says "drs. don't make good pilots but, pilots
> make good race car dirvers." --end of story.
>
> Funny thing is that's exactly what Mike Rothschild told me after I told
him
> I was taking lessons in a cessna 152. I took Mikes advice to heart and
> discontinued.
>
> M. Dunst
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