NickDG

Scrubbed . . . NickD

Wind hold. Wind @ 21 knots . . . NickD

They are having some WX issues at the moment. I think they should have at least put Ham's great grandson in the nose cone. But in consideration of modern times PETA would have a cow! Just heard they are cleared to launch! Small WX window though! NickD

Rest in Peace, Loy! Another brick in skydiving's foundation is gone. NickD

It's only a matter of time! You're beautiful . . . NickD

This is as close as gets . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nm8pNgqBAk NickD

We used to throw all our C-rats into one steel helmet over a fire with a half bottle of Tabasco and then right at the end pour in all that canned cheese. That was living large. I suppose you can't cook in a modern Kevlar helmet . . . NickD

>>I can just see the Applebee's list of select entrees for vets:

Very well done . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT7NqlL5blI NickD

My favorite Soupy bit was when he played Philo Kvetch, the private detective . . . NickD

Now, you got the nod . . . !!! Have a good one, Bro! Old age ain't no place for sissies. ~Bette Davis NickD

>>Yes, it's called an autonomic reaction

I was in the fourth grade, and sitting in class, at the time President Kennedy was assassinated. They had a public address speaker in all the classrooms and the news was announced by the Principle. She also said classes were canceled for the rest of the day and told us all to go home. There was a photo of President Kennedy on the wall and I remember staring at it trying to make sense of what I'd just heard. As I walked home the people in the streets of New York City were openly crying. Many gathered every few feet around automobiles listening to the radios. When I got home both my mother and grandmother were in tears. In these politically charged times it's hard to understand how most of us felt at that time. But I remember the following weeks being filled with sorrow, anguish, and a sense of loss the likes of which I've never experienced since. History tends to elevate and tarnish the dead with equal inaccuracy. But a good quote for perspective on John Kennedy would be, "Big heroes have big flaws." As far as conspiracy goes I find it interesting to talk about, but living the whole episode and its aftermath I truly believe a lone frustrated wanna-be radical was wholly responsible for the assassination and he was killed by a lone frustrated wanna-be gangster. I find my comfort in the fact the CIA, the Mafia, the Cubans, or any other implicated entity couldn't have kept the secret of killing a President for this long. And that's also the very reason I know there are no aliens being stored at Area 51 . . . NickD

I loved that too . . . click click click click click click click click click down and done . . . People today are a bunch of winders. NickD

You have my official permission to change your sig line. "Once we got to the point where twenty/something's couldn't operate a bumper jack we were doomed . . ." -NickDG NickD

That explains a lot. That part of Colorado is already at least 5,280-feet above sea level . . . NickD

I'm now in for twenty five dollars . . . I put in honor of Harvey Milk. NickD

It's not our fault . . . Anyone remember when the news wouldn't dare run a story until it was confirmed three ways from Sunday? We didn't change. Journalism did . . . NickD

Woah! I missed that one. I have a few spare bucks. Where do I send it? NickD

Actually I do all of the cooking. Like a lot of otherwise successful and very busy woman, Julia she can't cook a lick. And when she does it's more like a laboratory experiment than anything else. When I'm watching a football game and hear, "It's almost ready," I start praying for a heart attack, earthquake, or something else equally dinner avoiding! I can forgive her though, after all, in the meantime she went to Mars with Spirit & Opportunity, landed with Phoenix on the Martian Pole, and now oversees all the radio telescope arrays on planet Earth. But we now get phone calls in the middle of the night from university professors in Russia who, besides not being able to figure out timezones, after I ask, "Aren't we still at war with you guys," hang up abruptly realizing they got the wrong part of the family. If ET ever calls I'll know it, albeit second hand, but still long before any of you do. And if they do, I more than expect they'll ask for Airtwardo. And yes, that makes me look like a loser - except in the kitchen. And, oh yeah, except in the bedroom too. . . ! NickD

Julia an I have dinner every night with nothing else going on besides each other. I look forward to it all day. Doesn't everyone do that? NickD

So this will be the next big interview "get". Larry King: Little Falcon - fore de hour? NickD

>>So.. who foots the bill for all of this?

He was hiding in a box in the attic of his home . . . NickD

I really wish the FAA would get away from the "experimental" category of aircraft. In reality it just means home built. And rather than truly being experimental these are mostly based on a hundred years of what worked before. Go to Oskosh and look at the home built aeroplanes. They are some of the fastest, slickest, most economical, and fun to fly, aircraft being produced. But because of the "experimental" tag the public sees them as dangerous. I understand the FAA makes home builders placard their aircraft as "experimental" so innocent passengers can make an informed decision weather to fly in it or not. But that's a decision you need to make anytime you step into an aircraft. From your friend's Cub to the next 747 you get on. They should rename the experimental category to the "This aircraft complies with acceptable aircraft practices but wasn't mass produced by some corporation that is probably out of business now anyway," category. Yeah, I guess that would be a large placard . . . BTW, Falcon is alive and home safe! NickD