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A great 'clips' worth Tony!!!

Posted by Will Fowler on Sun Mar 10, 2002 09:48:48 PM

In reply top Re: A project owner :-) posted by Tony on Sun Mar 10, 2002 06:55:55 AM

Excellent message Tony, I would not have been so nice to the guy :-)

Kind regards,

Will

: Having been away for the weekend, turning live ammunition
: into Brass at the taxpayers expense :0) , I haven't spoken
: to Mick, so I'm not sure exactly why Mick has come in , w
: ith these 2 statements, and I'm not sure, that he hasn't m
: issed the word...DISCUSS in this statement.
:
: My own personal experience in the matter, is by and large,
: warbird owners, are quite an approachable bunch. It seems
: strange, but on a couple of occasions, the warbird owners
: , who i thought would be really open, turned out to be pro
: per a-holes, and the owners, who I thought would be very a
: nti, through necessity...The Late Doug, and Tom's boss.. w
: ill bang on for hours if u let them, about their pet proje
: cts.
:
: I already mentioned, that Doug gave myself and a friend a
: personal tour , when he was based at Blackbushe, (having t
: old us to f*** off his airfield first of all - lol)
: and Tony, gave me a very enthusiastic conversation,on the
: day I just dropped into Booker, with no appointment, and l
: et me see and touch the newly arrived 190, while he enthus
: ed about the Pilot's skill in putting the aircraft down, a
: nd the state of the tyres and airframe etc, and I had NO a
: ppointment! Tony just took the time, because he genuinely
: likes to talk about aircraft, and 2 people who might provi
: de leads, on where others might be.
:
: I have no doubt there are some moron owner/operators out t
: here. There are even more in the Sunday flyer PPL set. I h
: ad the priveledge, of meeting a truly stupid 19 year old"D
: addy's little girl" type, when I refuelled her aircraft, w
: hile she was doing a cross-country on what was obviously a
: b-initio training. She landed, I played the tyro....
: "What's it like to fly one of these then, I'm afraid I hav
: en't got the money to learn"
: "Oh it's brilliant, but you do have to be educated as well
: , to get the most out of it"
: "oh, well that lets me out, errrrrr I have done some glidi
: ng"
: "Oh gliding is nothing like flying, have you refueled my a
: ircraft yet?" At the time, I had 100 hours P1 (post licenc
: e) and something in the order of 750 glider launches.
:
: That angered me, because her comments, if I really had bee
: n just an average Joe Gas-monkey, might have put me off fl
: ying for life.
:
: On the second part..... I have, as I'm sure we all have, m
: et some truly ANAL enthusiasts. Mick so have you, and you
: know which board they populate. I met one such arsehole, i
: n Poland, obviously on a George Pick tour in Poland, at th
: e bar in the Ruropa in Warsaw. I knew he was an enthusiast
: , because he was wearing a pair of surplus RAF lightweight
: flying boots, and was about 5 stone outside acceptable RA
: F pilot limits, the fat tosser.
: Me.... "Sorry to ask, those boots, they look great for hik
: ing in, who makes them?
: Him, "They are RAF boots"
: Me. "Are they, are u a Pilot?"
: Him. "Yes (U wanker) I'm here with a few people on an orga
: nised tour, to fly in helicopters, as guests of the Polish
: Air Force."
: Me. "That sounds really exciting, is there any chance I ca
: n join this tour?"
: Him "NO,(after he looked down his nose)it is a VERY exclus
: ive tour, the Polish Air Force don't just allow anybody to
: fly in their aircraft, and frankly, you wouldn't be accep
: table to them, (whatever he fcuking meant by that)
: Me. "Oh thats' a shame, I would have liked to go up in a h
: elicopter.... Oh by the way, I have some photos of Polish
: aircraft I took, would u like to see?"
: Him"Oh ok, did u take them at the airport?"
: Me "No, this is me strapping into the front of an Iskra...
: this is me with the Pilot, , Major Tyzl.... this is me ha
: ving coffee with the Pilots, this is me post flight, it wa
: s a really good sortie, we did some low level stuff, this
: is me with one of the Iskras I just bought.. This is me in
: a Hind, this is me in the front cockpit of an Orlik, at t
: he PZL factory in Warsaw etc. etc. etc. lololol the look o
: n his face was priceless...
: Him "errrrrrrr"
: Me. "So be careful who u talk down to, in bars in Eastern
: Europe, now get out of my face u wannabee wanker"
: Sorry , I had to share that, on my deathbed, I will still
: savour the look on his stupid fat face, hahahhahaaa.
:
: So , really, there are knobbers, wherever u look .... Howe
: ver, there are considerably less warbird owner/operator pr
: oper pr*cks, then there are proper self opinated anal self
: -righteous drama queen enthusiasts
:
: Just my 30 rounds worth
: Tony

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