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
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Take me! Take me!
I’ll go!
Flyin’ Hornets Down Under – life would just totally suck.
I’d have to get back into shape first though. Hmm, a regimen of 12 ounce curls (Fosters) should start me out just right, mate!
As I said over at Skippys place:
Last I heard the max age for air crew is 39.
That said you only need to be a FLTLT so there may be exceptions for those with a little more bling on the shoulders.
BTW – Only 24 Super Bugs have been ordered, all the rest are the vintage variety.
39?
My name is Jack Benny and I hereby apply.
b2
I’m with you b2 — been celebrating anniversaries of my 39th birthday for — ahem — a while.
When I finished my AA in Info Systems (yeah, I went backwards and got an AA after my BS) I looked at Federal jobs — the coooool ones. The meanies told me 35 was their max age to start, because they had mandatory retirement at 20 years and age 55. I whined. A lot. Who said I want to stay that long? Anyway, it was just a dream — no way we’d be moving
But it was fun to think about … and a way for an “old” woman to participate in something grand.
Throw somebody in the trunk? Not some of that “Talking Ballast” I used to hear my dad speak of!
Pinch – I always loved my NFOs, but I usually introduced them as “200 pounds of gas I don’t have”.
Nose
PS Nice pic. Triple bubble and a pretty slick looking wing. Must be going over 200 NM.
Har har har. I kill myself.
The airlines here are sucking up RAAF pilots as fast as they can. The well-connected manage to hang around on reserve status. It helps if you you know somebody, but I hear they are interested in foreign instructor pilots…no hard and fast rules, if they like what they hear, they’ll talk.