So who's sitting next to YOU?

[airtwardo 7]

Capt. Mom was driving the bus back from Germany yesterday, she took the 'crew rest' seat for a break and was immediately engaged in conversation by the older woman next to her regarding women in non-traditional careers.

The woman seemed quite fascinated and asked question after question...throwing in an occasional comment regarding 'her' life experience in the workplace.

When break was over Capt. Mom & Sandra Day O'Connor, retired United States Supreme Court justice - traded business cards & promised to stay in touch.




~Years ago, I took my seat on a flight from Hawaii to L.A., got all situated and looked at the guy next to me in the window seat...Lloyd Bridges!

I shook his hand and told him I was a long time fan of his work.

He pointed to the 'Dive Hawaii" shirt I was wearing and said,"Don't tell me... Sea Hunt changed your life."

About that time Capt. Mom walks by (in uniform) and gives me a bag of snacks & smooch on the kisser...

I looked over at Lloyd and said, "No...Airplane!"

Ole guy about fell outta his chair laughing!


Soooo....
WHO sat next to YOU?

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[NWFlyer 2]

Very cool person for Captain Mom to meet!!

Most well-known person I've sat next to on a plane was then-Congressman (now Governor) Jay Inslee on a DC to Seattle flight. He was pretty much heads down working the entire flight, so I let him do his thing, and we talked for about 2 minutes at the end of the flight about his job.

But speaking of "Airplane" I was on a flight (LA to PHX, I think) with Kareem a few years back, but he was in first and I was back in cattle class.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[airtwardo 7]

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...he was in first and I was back in cattle class.

Guess ya picked a bad day to quit sniffin' glue!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[airtwardo 7]

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Very cool person for Captain Mom to meet!!

Indeed...but hey travel that much.

Once she sat down at break next to Robin Leach, she was preparing for the 1st ever 'Around the World Air Race' and had all kinds of stuff she was going through trying to get organized.

Robin kept watching her, then asked a few questions and was quite impressed...until he introduced himself she didn't recognize him.
He took the phone number & said he had a friend that 'may' have some interest in sponsorship if they needed some help with the race.

The next day I answered a call from the personal assistant of billionaire John Paul DeJoria, of Paul Mitchell fame...inviting us to a party in their home that weekend, where they could discuss the race.

The 310 ended up getting a white with black lettering paint scheme ~ "The Spirit of Paul Mitchell" came in 3rd out of 30 racers, and everywhere they stopped the two female pilots got out to a waiting crew of professional hairdressers.

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[wildcard451 0]

airtwardo

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Very cool person for Captain Mom to meet!!

Indeed...but hey travel that much.

Once she sat down at break next to Robin Leach, she was preparing for the 1st ever 'Around the World Air Race' and had all kinds of stuff she was going through trying to get organized.

Robin kept watching her, then asked a few questions and was quite impressed...until he introduced himself she didn't recognize him.
He took the phone number & said he had a friend that 'may' have some interest in sponsorship if they needed some help with the race.

The next day I answered a call from the personal assistant of billionaire John Paul DeJoria, of Paul Mitchell fame...inviting us to a party in their home that weekend, where they could discuss the race.

The 310 ended up getting a white with black lettering paint scheme ~ "The Spirit of Paul Mitchell" came in 3rd out of 30 racers, and everywhere they stopped the two female pilots got out to a waiting crew of professional hairdressers.

You need to quit talking. Your stories are too boring.

[JohnMitchell 16]

airtwardo

He pointed to the 'Dive Hawaii" shirt I was wearing and said,"Don't tell me... Sea Hunt changed your life."

About that time Capt. Mom walks by (in uniform) and gives me a bag of snacks & smooch on the kisser...

I looked over at Lloyd and said, "No...Airplane!"

Ole guy about fell outta his chair laughing!

That's one of the best F-in' stories ever. . . Love it.


Soooo....
WHO sat next to YOU?

[skymama 37]

I've never had anyone famous sit next to me on a flight, but I did have a Southern Baptist minister witness to me for 3 hours. Worst flight ever. Actually it was for 2 hours, I pretended to be asleep for an hour. When I "woke" up, he said, "you pretended to be asleep, didn't you?" You would have thought my precious and loving teenage children across the aisle would have come up with a way to rescue me; instead, they sat there snickering!

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[JohnMitchell 16]

skymama

I've never had anyone famous sit next to me on a flight, but I did have a Southern Baptist minister witness to me for 3 hours.

O-M-G.

Why can't some people learn to shut up when you're not buying what they're selling? I would have had to get pretty rude to the guy.

I always take a good book on flights. Do you think he would have stopped witnessing if you had said "Sorry, but I don't want to talk. I'm trying to finish my book."?

[normiss 883]

I'm still surprised when she can't be anything but nice, but that's Andrea.
She really can't help it.
It's fucking maddening.

[billeisele 130]

sat next to Jesse Jackson from Charlotte to DC, if the flight had been longer it's possible that he might have said something intelligent while talking to the other passengers

after not agreeing to give up my first class seat for his nephew, guess he just didn't like me

Give one city to the thugs so they can all live together. I vote for Chicago where they have strict gun laws.

[NewGuy2005 53]

I sacked Peter Fonda's groceries when I was 16, but I did not recognize him. Does that count?

[skymama 37]

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I'm still surprised when she can't be anything but nice, but that's Andrea.
She really can't help it.
It's fucking maddening.

Even when I try to be mean, I end up making myself cry!

I can only imagine what you would have said to the guy. I probably would have been trying to crawl under my seat by the time you finished with him.

And, John, I will take your advice and bring, "War and Peace" with me on the next flight so I'll make sure there's no way I could finish it!

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[airtwardo 7]

JohnMitchell

***I've never had anyone famous sit next to me on a flight, but I did have a Southern Baptist minister witness to me for 3 hours.

O-M-G.

Why can't some people learn to shut up when you're not buying what they're selling. I would have had to get pretty rude to the guy.

I always take a good book on flights. Do you think he would have stopped witnessing if you had said "Sorry, but I don't want to talk. I'm trying to finish my book."?

Had an evangelist working on me a few months back on a L.A. to Houston flight.

Half into his spiel I nodded and told him the fuckin' shit I did getting IN to prison weren't nuthin' compared to what I done did on the inside, could use me some God...I'm only two weeks in the free & Gotdamn horney - dare lotta young, healthy men go to yer church?

He was pretty quite the rest of the trip.

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[EatSleepFly 0]

I fly corporate/private jets for a living, so naturally have flown a decent amount of "well known" people. A few months back, we had an older couple on board who were friends of friends of our owners or something. At one point I was in the back getting a drink and a snack and stretching and the gentlemen asked if he could come up and chat with us for awhile. Sure, I said. It was immediately obvious that he had some kind of aviation background but wasn't a pilot. After some prodding, we found out that he was an aeronautical engineer by education, a backseater in various fighters during the early parts of the Vietnam war before eventually getting tapped to work in the Apollo program, which he did for the remainder of it's duration. After dropping that on us, he casually says he's going to go back and teach his old lady to play strip poker for the remainder of the flight.

Would have absolutely loved the chance to buy him some beers and hear some stories.

[ryoder 1,590]

When I was in college, I was living in one of the "Graduate Houses", because I was a "non-traditional-undergrad", i.e. >24yo. So most of my neighbors were grad students, with a smattering of ex-Gi's.

I became good friends with a guy a few doors down the hall who was working on his Phd in Electrical Engineering, by doing research in electrodynamics. I'm positive this guy was well into the genius range. He had that machine-gun-burst style of speech which I've occasionally encountered in extremely intelligent people. One of his side-interests was reading about the debunking of paranormal claims, and he subscribed to magazines like Skeptical Inquirer.

Over time, I became aware he had a weekly appt with some dude who would show up on Thursday evening with some books in hand, and the two would disappear for a couple hours in his room. I never asked what it was about.

One morning, I encountered him and he announced with a big cheesy grin:
"Well, my Thursday evenings will be free from now on!"

"Huh?" I asked.

"Yes, the Jehovah's Witness I've been debating every week for three months, has decided there is no hope for me."



I kid you not. This avowed atheist loved debating so much that he strung this JW along until the JW just gave up.

This guy is now college professor.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[skymama 37]

You are so bad!

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[JohnMitchell 16]

normiss

I'm still surprised when she can't be anything but nice, but that's Andrea.
She really can't help it.
It's fucking maddening.

That's why I want to meet her. She be nice to even ME.

[JohnMitchell 16]

airtwardo

He was pretty quite the rest of the trip.

Bet ya had a lot of fuckin' elbow room too.

[JohnMitchell 16]

ryoder

I kid you not. This avowed atheist loved debating so much that he strung this JW along until the JW just gave up.

Damn, that's amazing that the JW would even debate. It can be so frustrating trying to use logic against things people "believe." I quit years ago.

[airtwardo 7]

JohnMitchell

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He was pretty quite the rest of the trip.

Bet ya had a lot of fuckin' elbow room too.

Yeah...go figure huh?!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[piisfish 140]

normiss

I'm still surprised when she can't be anything but nice, but that's Andrea.
She really can't help it.
It's fucking maddening.

dont complain about how she is. If she were any different, you would be history

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[Squeak 17]

JohnMitchell

***I'm still surprised when she can't be anything but nice, but that's Andrea.
She really can't help it.
It's fucking maddening.

That's why I want to meet her. She be nice to even ME.
She hasn't met ME yet

You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

[normiss 883]

You could not be more correct my friend!

[shropshire 0]

Squeak

******I'm still surprised when she can't be anything but nice, but that's Andrea.
She really can't help it.
It's fucking maddening.

That's why I want to meet her. She be nice to even ME.
She hasn't met ME yet


But you're a Pussy Cat .... I think that's what Jane said (might have just been a rhyming thing)

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[skymama 37]

You guys are silly, and Le Fish is definitely correct.

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon