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And I thought george had a big ego! What does this have to do with technical diving? At 08:33 AM 10/26/1999 -0400, you wrote: > >or next thing you know this rudder-device-adding bonehead would > >be dropping celebrity names the way he seems compelled to boast > >about "his" mig > > >Yeah, I'd have to read you the list of people I have carried >in the Gulfstream before I went to work for Dassault, but >you'd probably gag when I told you how I earned the >US Presidential cuff-links that I wear (he was retired when >I got them, not claiming to have flown Air Force 1, and >he -didn't- fall down the ladder of -our- airplane.. ;-) > >He was a nice guy, though. And a good golfer. > >Let's see: I carried Al Pacino to his lifetime achievement >award ceremony, and took Tony Bennet to Frank Sinatra's >80th birthday party from Atlantic City to LA. Got to go to the >party as his guest, Hmmm... November 19th, 1995. >My backstage pass to the show is serial number 0990. >Got it hanging over the desk. Go look that up too. Used to >carry Demi Moore from Teterboro to Sun Valley Idaho, >with a fuel stop coming back at North Platte Nebraska. >(she looks like any other 30-ish woman shen she's in a >T-shirt, BTW. And her dog used to piss on the tire of >the Gulfstream). > >Gotta be carefull, eh? never know what insult may end up >making ya look like a fool. Hollywood, indeed. What nonsense. > >Ya just never know, do ya?? > > > > >so, you "own" this mig do you? > >S/N 1C-1705, US Reg# N1705 to be exact. But no bother, it's >the -17th- military jet that I've owned. Look 'em up. > > > > >it must be very special to own a > >mig - and, to repeat myself, to be such an aeronautical > >engineering genius that you feel safe and qualified to start > >welding crap to it as improvements... > >Life is good! It pleases me. Holding an A&P (airframe and >powerplant) license from the FAA helps too, as does access >to all of the military support that I require. . > > > >yea, you go right ahead and weld extra devices to "your" mig and > >that should save us the bother of filtering your inane messages > >to this forum > >Not so sure about that. Been running them since 1984. First >from China and then from Russia, Hungary, and Poland. USN >Test Pilots school PAX River and International Test Pilots School >Woodford England seem to like 'em, since they both lease time >in them. PS: We rivet, not weld. the rumors about the MiG being steel >is not true, at least for the 17 and 21. > > >Have fun in Quatar. Much technical diving out there in the desert? >Probably good diving within a reasonable commute to the >Red Sea. > > >Best regards (really!), > >Dave Sutton > > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. ---------------------------------- Kevin Connell <kevin@nw*.co*> NW Labor Systems, Inc http://www.nwls.com ---------------------------------- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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