Sundaze 11/01/2009

By lex, on November 1st, 2009

What a weekend.

Tailspin Tom offered us the opp to head up to CRQ and take a turn at a cherry 1968 Beech Debonair that has seen some tender loving care over the last 40 odd years. The hardest part about any new airplane is safely getting her started and configured at the hold short, but there really wasn’t much to it: Mixture full rich, prop flat, throttle cracked a half an inch and just a few moments on the fuel boost pump for to get her primed. She started on a couple three blades and after that it was find our way to the runway. Me on the left, Tailspin on the right, Chief Barnstormer Bronco (pictured below) a-snoring in the back.

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Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex