hyperpep111 wrote on Jan 19^th, 2012 at 4:40pm:


The problem I constantly suffer, is trying to get the whole animal into my Gas Oven, to roast.

The legs always prevent me from fully closing the oven doors.

(Extra roasting time is necessary if its still wearing its saddle).

Paul...Roast Piggy and apple sauce for dins today... ...!

If that annoying Helicopter keeps hovering above my garden, I'm going to pop it into my oven as well... ...!

expat wrote on Jan 20^th, 2012 at 5:05am:


I rustle up a lovely John Wayne Pepper Sauce* to accompany my Horse Steak, whilst rounding up the Cattle in my Cessna 150 Aerobat....

Yeee-Haaaa!... ...!

Paul... ...!

* Ground Stetson, Chaps, and Boots....with added beans... ...!

I don't ever remember not having a passion for aviation. According to my mom, I was fascinated by airplanes when I was just an infant. She says that one of my favorite toys was a little toy airplane. I would also get excited anytime I heard or saw an airplane. I also loved looking at aviation pictures, and would look at picture books until I fell asleep during nap times.

When I was 10 or 11, we lived in a house in the Scottish Highlands which was on a bluff about 40 feet high overlooking the loch and the river outlet. One day I watched two Hawker Hunters come down the loch and then the river, and I was looking down on them. That's low flying !

Ten years later, I got involved with a model aircraft club for a while - control line and R/C, and about twenty years later took some lessons in a Microlight. Unhappily, I never got to the stage of taking my licence because when I had the time, I didn't have the money, and vice-versa. That was entertaining because it was in uncontrolled airspace. The first thing you did, unless you were on circuits and bumps, was climb out to 1000' for safety. The fast movers came through at about 500', so you had a safety margin. Interesting, doing 50 knots or so at 1000' and watching a Tornado go past directly below you probably doing about 450 knots.

Sometime in the early '90s, I found a 'lite' version flight sim on a magazine cover, and have been an off and on user ever since. Favourites ? CFS 2 and FS X, with a sneaking regard for CFS 1.

Regards,

Chris Cosgrove   

For me, it was when I was 5, and we were flying on a NWA 727-200 from MSP-YYZ.  We were the last ones off and the pilot took me into the cockpit, so I go to sit in my 2ed favorite plane ever. Also when Steve Appleton let me sit in his Hawer Hunter.

I was kind of born into it. A couple of my older brothers flew during WW2 and continued flying after the war.

Very few weekends went by that I did not get to fly somewhere.

Once I was old enough one of them taught me how to fly. After I had enough hours he taught me to fly his helicopter.

I flew for a couple of years but my back was bad and I flunked my flight physical so that ended my flying.

I continued flying with my brothers as a passenger and never tired of it.

We flew in everything from Stearmans to Bell Jet Rangers.

I still do some RC flying and fly FSX on a regular basis.