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Why do we want to fly?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 5:52 am
by gaztop
???
Is there any rational explanation? Why would we want to leave terra furma?
I don't just mean to go from A to B

Just thought I would ask


gaztop

Re: Why do we want to fly?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 5:58 am
by ozzy72
'Cos its fun ;D

Re: Why do we want to fly?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 6:57 am
by Smoke2much
Because it isn't there... 8)

Re: Why do we want to fly?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:35 am
by flyboy 28
Oh, man, I just love the feeling of takeoff... Soaring up right next to a big cumulus cloud... And the turbulence... Turbulence is fun. ;D

Re: Why do we want to fly?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:21 pm
by Tequila Sunrise
because driving takes longer and aint much fun at .5 mph crawling along the M8  ;D

Re: Why do we want to fly?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:33 pm
by ozzy72
You think the M8 is bad, try the M25 on a Monday morning, its the biggest parking-lot in the EU ;D

Re: Why do we want to fly?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:44 pm
by Fozzer
...'cos we look up at all the dicky birds having fun in the sky... ;D
...and wonder why we are stuck down here... :'(...!

Cheers all...!

Paul. ...covered my arms with waxed feathers, standing on the roof, ready for take-off... 8)...!
...keeping well clear of the Sun... ;)...!

Re: Why do we want to fly?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 1:46 pm
by ozzy72
Paul how many times do we have to tell you? CHICKENS CAN'T FLY!!!!!!!! ;D

Re: Why do we want to fly?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:52 pm
by Fozzer

....Paul. ...covered my arms with waxed feathers, standing on the roof, ready for take-off... 8)...!
...keeping well clear of the Sun... ;)...!



...this was me after my third attempt....>>>

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LOL...LOL...LOL... ;D...!

Paul.

...sorry Dave. I pinched your avatar.... ;)...!

Re: Why do we want to fly?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:55 pm
by The Ruptured Duck
so i can spit on all those hillbillys!

Re: Why do we want to fly?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 5:13 pm
by Lux13
Have you ever tried to land with 25 knots gusting 35?!!
......A lot of fun!!!!!  ;D

Re: Why do we want to fly?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 8:10 pm
by BFMF
With me, I was born with it in my blood. I've been fascinated with aviation all my life, even before I can remember.

I read an article on the 'Passion for Flying' recently. I thought it was quite interesting. It even had a small 6 questionaire. The results? Seems i'm completely obsessed with flying ;D

Re: Why do we want to fly?

PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 8:24 pm
by FLYING_TRUCKER
I think that is a very good question gaztop.

After many many years of doing it...I still don't have the answer.

Perhaps you may want to look up Pilot Officer JG MAGEE JR. ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE and read his poem High Flight.

Actually I will post it for you :)

High Flight

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds-and done an hundred things
You have not dreamed of-wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence.  Hovering there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew-
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space.
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug :)

Re: Why do we want to fly?

PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 8:55 pm
by Stormtropper
cuz we ain't got noting better to do. us are sane, well we is sane if we take our medicine

Cheers
Jeff

P.S. Ozzy count the number of mistakes in my post, and tell me if that was for a grade what whould you, as an English teacher, have given me

Re: Why do we want to fly?

PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 6:16 pm
by J41
If you ask me you just cant beat the view from my office.
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