From: John Kuenzel

Subject: email address

Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:38

Please add to 1960 email listing. JKuen@home.com.

John Kuenzel.

From: Bill Taylor

Subject: Change Of Address(es)

Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 16:26

Ace,

I just noticed that both my e-mail and snail-mail addresses are incorrect in the listing here. My correct e-mail address is wtaylor@rand.org (that explains why Tony B kept having problems with my e-mail when I lived in the DC area), and my new address in Hampton Roads is:

Is this the correct method to get the listing changed, or do I need to send the corrected info elsewhere? This is a great service to the class. Thanks.

Bill

From: Bill Carnegie

Subject: address

Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 18:17

Please change class e-mail listing to just: wmcarnegie@yahoo.com.

From: CT Douglas

To: Andi Biancur

Subject: 60 Reuinion work

Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 16:15

Dear Andi;

I finally have a chance to sit down and gurgitate the reunion packet we recently received. It became very obvious that YOU have put a lot of effort in organizing this, as well as our other reunions, and I just want to thank you. It really means a lot to all of us--and I hope we track down the four missing classmates. I was the class scribe for a while a long time ago, and remember it was tough keeping track of our class as we moved around.

Thanks again,

CT Douglass

From: Bob Heiges

Subject: addition to AFA '60 email list

Date: 21 May 2000 15:07

Yo Ace,

It's fine with me if you want to add my email address to the class contact list at http://www2.acan.net/~dpma/emaillst.html

It is: heiges@altavista.com

(Note: The Register shows heiges@ibm.net but that one, although still good, ends at the end of summer.)

Thanks. See 'ya in Oct?

Bob Heiges

Union, KY

From: Dave or Laura Wiest

Subject: email address

Date: : Thu, 18 May 2000 19:30

Please add my email address to the Class of '60 list: dwiest@zianet.com. Thanks

Dave Wiest

From: Howard Whitfield

To:reunions@aog-usafa.org

Subject: Robert Lewis Baker, Class of 1960

Date: : Fri, 19 May 2000 13:06

Bob Baker is one of our lost soul classmates. I tried to contact Bob through the Air America Association, but didn't get any help. The last time I saw Bob Baker was in January, 1970, in Vietnam. Bob and I met at the officer's club at Marble Mountain Marine Corps Helicopter Base, Danang, Vietnam. Bob was a civilian flying a Pilatus Porter single engine turboprop. Bob's wife was in Saigon and they had had a baby in 1968. I think Bob was flying for Air America, but perhaps it was another agency...? I never heard from Bob after that. Wayne Peterson and Bob were good friends and Wayne may have had contact with Bob after I did. Other sources might be the U.S. State Department or Central Intelligence Agency, as they would have known about U.S. civilians in Vietnam at that time.

Sincerely, Howard

From: Paul J. Vallerie

Subject: New e-mail address

Date: : Monday, May 15, 2000 9:22 PM

Hi

Just to inform you that I am changing e-mail providers. US West has fouled me up several times now so I am changing to Earthlink. New e-mail address is: kayval@earthlink.net

I will be able to get mail on either one for the next month or so but please start sending to the new e-mail. Update your files.

PJV

From: Jim Alexander

Subject: E-mail address

Date: : Tue, 16 May 2000 19:27

We have moved again in our search for a 'final' home in the hills of South Carolina.  Our new telephone number is (864) 647-6555.  My office phone is (864) 638-4211. Our new e-mail address is: wldflr@innova.net.

From: Earl VanInwegen

Subject: change of e-mail address

Date: : Mon, 15 May 2000 14:38

Please change my home e-mail address to "evani@pacbell.net" Thanks--see 'ya in October--Beat Navy!!

From: Bill Currier and Irma Van Scoy

Subject: Email misprint

Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:52

Ace,

I just noticed a wrong letter in my email address. It should read wrcijv@infoave.net . Looking forward to seeing you at the 40th.

Bill,C.

From: Judy Singer

Subject: Web Site created on behalf of Donald Singer

Wed, 5 Apr 2000 19:43:06 EDT

Attached web site I had created on behalf of Donald E. Singer. On same web site, you will see Donald's photo. Regretably everything started going to hell after photo was taken. This is now the second largest brain tumor support group on the internet consisting of 140 members.

Web site address: Fight For Life

Kindest regards,

Judy Singer

FROM THE AOG GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN SITE: Donald Edward Singer, Class of 1960, died on September 30, 1999, in Las Vegas, NV. (Feb 7, 00)

From: "GJC" Fries

Subject: Change of e-mail Address

Date: Monday, April 10, 2000 10:16 PM

ACE: New e-mail address: gfries@earthlink.net. Please update class roster! See you in October. Will bring family with me this time.

GJC

From: John Macartney

Subject: Obsolete Pilots...

Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 08:57:03 -0500

PENTAGON TO STOP TRAINING COMBAT PILOTS
In a move many aerospace experts said was inevitable, the Pentagon announced this week that it will no longer train pilots, but instead will recruit teenagers to fly remotely operated aircraft. At a press briefing Thursday, Secretary Of Defense William Cohen said, "It just didn't make sense anymore, with the advances in electronics and the video-game skill level of your average teenager. We can have a kid sit in a control room and remotely control an Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicle to blast the bad guys, just like he's playing 'Doom.' These teenagers are perfectly happy to work for free video games and unlimited supplies of Surge Cola and Cheetos." Cohen added the Pentagon will continue to train a few pilots for the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds precision flight teams, for "nostalgic" reasons.

From: Jon McClure

Subject: Change of address

Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:24:52 EST

Ace,

I notice my E mail info is not up to date. My work address is now 108 East Adair St., Valdosta, GA 31601, Wk phone numbers are the same. My Home address is 106 Worthington Place, Valdosta, GA 31602, home phone is (912) 245-0226, wife's name is Linda. Had dinner with Pete King and his wife "Linda" in Macon, Ga while trying the death penalty case. Dinner was great. My client got life without parole. In Georgia that is consider a win for the Defense Team. I do not go along with that. We will appeal the conviction. The trial lasted 15 days. I missed the ski reunion,... maybe next year. Hell, I can't ski!!

Jon

From: Dean Bristow

Subject: Alnwick and Bristow

Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:37:45 EST

Hey, Andy,

I had dinner with Ken Alnwick tonight in Anchorage. He is here to preview a war game for my medical group. We got together for a bite and some shoveling (no, not snow!). Despite the fact that he looks OLD, there was no trouble telling that it was Alnwick. I saw him in San Antonio at a meeting last May. I didn't recognize him until he called my name and smiled. I knew immediately who it was. After a quick abrazo, we both stood back and simultaneously said to the other, "you're old!" (Funny, it couldn't have been more than 39 years since we had seen one another.) Ken tipped me off to the web site.

I plan to retire from the Air Force in about September. I will be settling in Payson, Utah, where Sandy and I have our home. Three of our four kids are there or in Provo. I look forward to seeing you again, both in Utah and in Colorado. Yes, I will be at the reunion. I appreciate all the work you and the others have put into the celebration.

Nulli Secundus,

Dean

From: Dean Bristow

Subject: Add e-Mail Addresses

Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:37:45 EST

Ace,

Ken Alnwick tipped me off to the site. Good to read the collected wisdom of '60 on the screen. I'm at Elmendorf and will be until retirement sometime late this summer or early fall. All good things have to end! It's been a great third career--or second childhood; I'm not sure which.

My e-mail addresses are: dlbone@aol.com and dean.bristow@elmendorf.af.mil. Looking forward to seeing everyone in October. My best to all.

Dean

From: Andi Biancur

Subject: MiniSki 2000

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:19:15 EST

SNOW REPORT

MiniSki 2000, is due to kick off this Saturday and continue for as long as folks perceive the need for instruction. Mr. Al Johnson will be in residence commencing on Saturday. For those of you who believe you need individual instruction, please contact him to set up private appointments. Wednesday night Solitude received 20 inches of new snow while Alta receive 16 inches. This added to established bases of over 100 inches on the west slopes should produce excellent conditions. I skied on Wednesday at Alta and can tell you it was great. The Park City side will not be quite as good but very adequate this year for a day or two over there.

See those of you who I know are coming next week. For the rest of you; eat your hearts out! Seriously, I wish everyone could be here.

Snow Bwana

From: Steve Bishop

Date: 2/16/2000

Hi Ace,

Has it been awhile? At my age it isn't easy to remember, but I think it's been at least 15 years! Would you please add my address to the list?
W. S. Bishop
PO Box 3004
Princeville, HI 96722
808-826-9009
wsbishop@compuserve.com

I'm retiring from United at the end of April, and I'll update this stuff then, though the E-Mail address is likely to remain the same. Thanks, Ace, See you at the Zoo in October.

Best regards, Steve

From: Ken Alnwick

Subject: Page 2

Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 10:49:21

Ace,

I'm having trouble accessing page 2. I get the logo and scroll, but no up-down arrows on the right side of the screen. As a matter of fact, there is nothing but image on the right side. Is it me or is there a problem with the site.

Cheers,

Ken

YES THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH THE SHARED MESSAGES PAGE 2. DROPPED AN ENDING TAG AND IT WAS OK WITH THOSE WHO USE INTERNET EXPLORER BUT NETSCAPE WAS NOT SO FORGIVING. I THINK ITS OK NOW. THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP.

From: George Fries

ACE: You're going to have to explain to me this 'Happy99.exe". Us guys doing landscaping for Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, aren't very hi-tech. I got this machine for my daughters in High/Middle School so they could compete 'homework wise' with their classmates.

God willing and the creek don't rise, I'll see you at the Reunion next year. Beat Navy!

GJC

From: Jerry Mason

Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000

Subject: Update

Hello Ace,

Please change my e-mail listing from Jerry L. Mason jerrymason@juno.com to Jerry Mason jerry@cowtown.net . Thanks much. Note that I dropped my middle initial, L from the listing. I noticed that most all the other listings had no middle initial. I don't want to be the only formal guy in the list with my official payroll signature. Thanks much for keeping this list up and current for all of us.

Jerry

From: Kirk Canterbury

Date: Saturday, January 22, 2000

Subject: Update

Hello again Ace.

Hope this finds you well and prosperous.

Can you change that e-mail for me. I have upgraded to a cable service and am no longer on earthlink.
Please use: kirkcan@talon.com

Thamks

Kirk Canterbury
Moldsmart, Inc
6616 Rocky Falls Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
Phone 704 367 0160
Fax 810 958 5019
e-mail: moldsmart@carolina.rr.com

From: Andi Biancur

Date: Saturday, January 22, 2000

Subject: Info

Thus far, I have heard that Lalime, Delacruz, Johnson, and Boyington (along with a whole contingent) are showing up to ski. Most are arriving on Saturday, 26 February and staying, at least through 3 March. Pupich and Waddle are rumbling about showing and I haven't heard from Hobgood or anyone else but it is still very early for this bunch.

Check 6,
Andi

From: Ralph Lalime

Date: Saturday, January 18, 2000

Subject: Mini-Ski

I will be coming to the 40th with Darlene, and I will be coming to the miniski (but Darlene is not coming). I will fly out with Gerry DelaCruz. We will be arriving on the 26th and departing on the 3rd. This is the first time that the miniski has not directly conflicted with our wedding anniversary which is on the 4th. I need to call out there today and make hotel reservations. Will I see you there? (YES.) And will you wave at me as you swoosh past me on the slopes? (WHEN I'M NOT EATING SNOW.)

Ralph

From: Howie Whitfield

Date: Saturday, January 8, 2000

Subject: Retirement

Ace,
As my xmas card indicated I took a voluntary early retirement from Sikorsky effective 15 Dec 1999. Therefore please delete my work e-mail, phone # and fax #. My new e-mail is: hwhitfield@earthlink.net.
See you at the 40th,
Howie

From: John Macartney

Date: Saturday, January 1, 2000

Subject: John Macartney & Lorna Aldrich have new addresses:

Although our old e-mail addresses (jdmac@erols.com and jdmac@syr.edu) are still operational, we will soon close them out. John's new address: jdmaca@bellatlantic.net (home / both of us) (note extra "a")
Lorna's addresses: lorna2@bellatlantic.net (home) laldrich@mailbox.econ.ag.gov (work)
_____________________________________
ALSO, WE MOVED IN MAY AND HAVE A NEW HOME ADDRESS
3001 Veazey Terrace NW, #1120
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 537-9717
________________________________________
FYI: E-mail changes because of DSL connection. My apologies if you got this message twice
________________________________________
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

From: Andi Biancur

Date: Monday, December 1, 1999

Subject: Some updates to e-mail

Ace,

The following E-mail updates are known to me:
George Pupich--GD112589@aol.com
Rosie Cler--rosie@genie.idt.net
Les Hobgood--hobgood@flash.net
Paul Vallerie--kayval@uswest.net

Try those on for size--in the interest of improved communication.

Andi

IT'S HARD PICTURING LES AND PAUL IN THE FOREFRONT OF WEB AUTOMATION, BUT IN TRUTH, THEY'VE HAD EMAIL FOR YEARS.

BUT ROSIE!!...

AND PUPICH!!!.....

THE WEBMASTER IS TRULY IMPRESSED

From: Ben Furuta

Date: Monday, December 1, 1999

Subject: Changes and check in

Just finished reading all the info on the "retired page 1" of our class website and really appreciated seeing the info. And I just got the November register and spent quite a bit of time catching up. Like a number of classmates, I haven't had too much connections with C-Springs and '60 except for a couple of football games and the 25th year reunion.

Will be retiring from my life as a public school educator here in So. Cal in January so please change my e-mail address to benf396@earthlink.net. I was a classroom teacher for approximately 16 years and then went into school admin and ended my site level experience as a high school principal. I have for the last 6 years been a project director here at the Los Angeles County Office of Ed and will retire soon. Married to Hideko, who I met in Japan while on duty with the 56th Wx Recon squadron (interesting life flying into typhoons). Have 3 kids, 2 grandkids and we enjoy them all.

Am planning tentatively on attending the 40th so any information you can post on the web page will be helpful. And has anyone heard from Garth Cooke who was my roomie?

Keep up the good work on the Web Site. It really is a good source of keeping up.

Tadashi-san

From: Jock Schwank

Date: Monday, November 22, 1999

Subject: AOG Merchandise Site

I am pleased to announce that the AOG Merchandise site is now operational through the AOG Web Page: www.aog-usafa.org. Select "Merchandise" from the left frame. When you get to the merchandise page, you can click on the item name for an enlarged view of any item. For the many folks who have been asking about the '99 holiday ornament, the web site is a great way to view the ornament and to order it.

Thanks for your patience as we worked to set up the on-line store. We hope you will find the end product justifies the long wait you experienced.

Jock

From: Ted Stumm

Date: Monday, November 19, 1999

Subject: Re: 'Hanoi Jane' Rumors

Goose,

While many of these tales are fabrications from what you sent, I am constantly amazed that no former POW has done Jane Fonda in and claimed mental impairment as a defense. I think any jury would have a hard time convicting someone in that instance. Thanks for including me on this one.

Ted Stumm

From: Gary "Goose" Gulbransen

Date: Monday, November 18, 1999

Subject: 'Hanoi Jane' Rumors Blend Fact and Fiction

Gents,

While no fan of Jane Fonda or her ex husband or her present husband for that matter, if you have seen the Hanoi Jane e-mail that has been circulating you might be interested in this. It is from a website Urban Myths.

Gary G Gulbransen

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'Hanoi Jane' Rumors Blend Fact and Fiction

There's no disputing that Jane Fonda toured North Vietnam, propagandized on behalf of the communists, and participated in an orchestrated "press conference" with American POWs in 1972. There's no denying that she defamed POWs by whitewashing the Viet Cong's treatment of them and later calling them liars when they spoke out.

But how true are the further allegations in the current email rumors? Let's examine their veracity point by point, beginning with the most serious:

Claim: Fonda betrayed POWs by turning over slips of paper they gave her to their captors. POWs were beaten and died as a result.

Status: FALSE.

"It's a figment of somebody's imagination," says Ret. Col. Larry Carrigan, who was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967. He has no idea why the story was attributed to him. "I never met Jane Fonda," he told me. It goes without saying he never handed her a secret message.

He confessed that he did see Fonda once while he was a POW on film.

He recalled the night when he and the rest of the 80 or so men he was interned with were called out into the prison courtyard, "the first time we'd been outside under the stars in 5 or 6 years." As they all stood there wondering what was in store for them, a projector started whirring in the background. Their captors proceeded to show them footage of Jane Fonda's visit to Hanoi.

Claim: A POW spit at Fonda, for which he was brutally beaten.

Status: FALSE.

This story is attributed in the email to former Air Force pilot Jerry Driscoll, who says it's false and did not originate from him. I wasn't able to speak with Driscoll directly, but Mike McGrath and Paul Galanti, fellow officers of the Nam-POWs organization to which Driscoll belongs, told me he unequivocally disavows the story.

[Update: after this commentary was written I received personal confirmation from Jerry Driscoll that the story is bogus as he put it, "the product of a very vivid imagination."]

Mike McGrath, currently serving as the president of Nam-POWs, has been trying for more than a month to help Driscoll and Carrigan squelch the false rumors circulating under their names.

"They would like to get their names removed but the story seems to have a life of its own," he told me. "There are a lot of folks out there who would love to have a story like that to hang their hat and their hate on."

Claim: POWs were beaten for refusing to cooperate or meet with Fonda during her visit.

Status: TRUE.

The final anecdote in the "Hanoi Jane" message recounts the experience of a POW who agreed to meet with Fonda but announced to his captors that he planned on telling her how horrid conditions in North Vietnamese prison camps really were.

"Because of this," the narrative continues, "I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees with outstretched arms with a piece of steel placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane every time my arms dipped." Those words were written by Michael Benge, a civilian advisor captured by the Viet Cong in 1968 and held as a POW for 5 years. When I contacted him, he confirmed that the story was indeed his, and true.

Benge's original statement, entitled "Shame on Jane," was published in April by the Advocacy and Intelligence Network for POWs and MIAs. The nameless, faceless author of the "Hanoi Jane" message evidently picked it up from a Web page or a newsgroup and combined it with fabricated stories to create the forwarded text. Some versions now circulate with Benge's name appended, others quote his statement anonymously.

A good cause is never well-served by lies, and that's how all of the ex-POWs I spoke to or corresponded with about the falsehoods in this message felt. Paul Galanti said: "None of us are members of the Jane Fonda Fan Club, but these fabrications are something she just did not do."

No one had an answer to the question "Who made up these stories and why?" but both Carrigan and McGrath expressed doubt that it was a POW.

"She did enough to place her name in the trash bin of history," McGrath explained. "None of us need to make up stories on her."

Jane Fonda could not be reached for comment.

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From: Gary Gulbransen

Date: Monday, November 1, 1999

Subject:Snake Theory

The Differential Theory of US Armed Forces (Snake Model) upon encountering a snake in the Area of Operations (AO)
1. Infantry: Snake smells them, leaves area.
2. Airborne: Lands on and kills the snake.
3. Armor: Runs over snake, laughs, and looks for more snakes.
4. USAF/USN Fighter Aviation: Has GPS coordinates to snake. Can't find snake. Returns to base for refrag, crew rest, manicure, 9 holes, and Happy Hour.
5. Ranger: Plays with snake, then eats it.
6. Field Artillery: Kills snake with massive TOT with three Forward Artillery Brigades in support. Kills several hundred civilians as unavoidable collateral damage. Mission is considered a success and all participants (cooks, mechanics and clerks) are awarded Silver Stars.
7. Special Forces: Makes contact with snake, builds rapport, wins its heart and mind, and trains it to kill other snakes.
8. Combat Engineer: Studies snake. Prepares in-depth doctrinal thesis in obscure 5 series Field Manual about how to defeat snake using countermobility assets. Complains that maneuver forces don't understand how to properly conduct doctrinal counter-snake ops.
9. Navy SEAL: Expends all ammunition and calls for naval gunfire support in failed attempt to kill snake. Snake bites SEAL and retreats to safety.
10. Navy: Fires off 50 cruise missiles from various types of ships, kills snake and makes presentation to Senate Appropriations Committee on how Naval forces are the most cost effective means of anti-snake force projection.
11. Marine: Kills snake by accident while looking for souvenirs. Local civilians demand removal of all US forces form AO.
12. Marine Recon: Follows snake, gets lost.
13. Combat Controllers: Guides snake elsewhere.
14. Para-Rescue Jumper: Wounds snake in initial encounter, then works feverishly to save snake's life.
15. Supply: Your anti-snake equipment is on backorder.
16. Transport pilot: Receives call for anti-snake equipment, delivers two weeks after due date.
17. F-15 pilot: Mis-identifies snake as Hind helicopter, engages with missiles. DFC awarded. Crew chief paints snake kill on aircraft.
18. F-16 pilot: Finds snake, drops both CBU-87's (entire load), and misses target >due to weather. DFC awarded; GOs claim "we need more planes like this" (single >engine, single seat, disposable 'utility' fighters) 'cuz looking good is a full time job.
19. AH-64 Apache pilot: Unable to locate snake, snakes don't show well on IR. Fires anyway; hits friendlies; DFCs awarded.
20. B-52 pilot: Pulls ARCLIGHT mission on snake, kills snake and every other living thing within two miles of target.
21. ICBM Missile crew: Lays in target coordinates to snake in 20 seconds, but can't receive authorization from National Command Authority to use nuclear weapons.
22. Intelligence officer: Snake? What snake? Only four of 35 indicators of snake activity are currently active. We assess the potential for snake activity as LOW.
23. Photo Section: Accidentally impales snake with tripod leg while setting up equipment.
24. JAG: Snake declines to bite, citing grounds of professional courtesy.

From: Greg Boyington

Date: Tuesday, November 11, 1999

Subject: Anagrams

An Anagram, as you all know, is a word or phrase made by transposing or rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. The following are exceptionally clever. Someone out there either has way too much time to waste or is deadly at Scrabble.

When you rearrange the letters:

And for the grand finale:

CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE USA
It can be rearranged (with no letters left over, and using each letter only once) into:
TO COPULATE, HE FINDS INTERNS

From: Andi Biancur

Date: Friday, October 29, 1999

Subject: Chris Warack

This is news I would rather not send, but you all need to know. Please pass the word as you see fit.

Chris Warack ('60) died very suddenly and unexpectedly, yesterday, of a Heart Attack.

There will be a Rosary at St. Peters Catholic Church in Monument, Colorado, on Sunday, 31 Oct. at 1900 Hrs. The Funeral Mass will be conducted in the USAFA Cadet Catholic Chapel at 1030 hrs. Monday, 1 Nov. followed by interment in the USAFA Cemetery. A reception will follow the interment at Doolittle Hall. At present, I have no word regarding Flowers vs Donations to any organization in Chris' name. I will notify you all as soon as I hear anything.

Chris' wife's name is Pat (Mrs. Christian A. Warack). They resided at :
690 Winding Hills Rd.,
Monument, Colorado 80132-9441.
Phone: (719) 488-2504

Andi

From: Gerard de la Cruz

Date: October 27, 1999

Subject: Address Maintenance

Hey,

Please delete my e-mail address at ANSER. I'm fully retired now so I don't use that address anymore. My address at gdlc@erols.com is still good.

I've got my tickets for SLC at the end of Feb. Hope to see a lot of you there.

Thanks,
Jerry de la Cruz

From: Earl VanInwegen

Date: Monday, June 14, 1999

Subject: Address Maintenance

E-mail, add a 2nd one for home--"e.vani@worldnet.att.net"
Phones: Office (619) 542-2266, Home (858) 729-0123
Fax: Office (619) 542-2298
Address:
5504 Chelsea Ave
La Jolla, CA 92037

Thanx!

From: Bill Hales

Date: Monday, May 17, 1999

Subject: Avaition 101

Thought you might enjoy this:

Aviation 101
The Laws Of Flying
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Takeoff's are optional. Landings are mandatory.

If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger, if you pull the stick back they get smaller. (Unless you keep pulling the stick back--- then they get bigger again)

Flying is not dangerous; crashing is dangerous.

It's better to be down here wishing you were up there, than up there wishing you were down here.

The propeller is just a big fan in the front of the plane to keep the pilot cool. Want proof? Make it stop; then watch the pilot break out into a sweat.

Speed is life, altitude is life insurance. No one has ever collided with the sky.

It's best to keep the pointed end going forward as much as possible.

The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.

Every one already knows the definition of a 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away. But very few know the definition of a 'great landing.' It's one after which you can use the airplane another time.

The probability of survival is equal to the angle of arrival.

Always remember you fly an airplane with your head, not your hands.

Never let an airplane take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.

You know you've landed with the wheels up when it takes full power to taxi.

Those who hoot with the owls by night should not fly with the eagles by day.

A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and round and reciprocating parts going up and down--all of them trying to become random in motion. Helicopters can't really fly--they're just so ugly that the earth immediately repels them.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.

Trust your captain .... but keep your seat belt securely fastened.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

Aviation is not so much a profession as it is a disease.

There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing: Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

The only thing worse than a captain who never flew as copilot is a copilot who once was a captain.

Be nice to your first officer, he may be your captain at your next airline.

It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation. You start with a large fortune.

A fool and his money are soon flying more airplane than he can handle.

Remember, you're always a student in an airplane.

Keep looking around; there's always something you've missed.

Try to keep the number of your landings equal to the number of your takeoffs.

You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold, pilots!

From: Greg Boyington

Date: Monday, May 17, 1999

Subject: Advice

Interesting little tidbit that I picked up from a WWII fighter ace M. F. Kirby. Share it with our older Classmates.

(Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed in order.) Without help, the person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a phone and, between breaths, call for help.

Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives! from Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240's newsletter....