Roost Air Lounge => Current Strip => Topic started by: airtac on February 19, 2008, 01:14:56 PM
Title: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: airtac on February 19, 2008, 01:14:56 PM
HAAHA Chuck is such a Walter Mitty kind of guy---of course, I've found many pilots have "active imaginations" :D :P
Title: Re: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: Oddball on February 19, 2008, 04:42:08 PM
Know some model pilots like that too, dressing up in flight suits while at airshows so people can ask them what they fly then they point to thier model spitfire (not me by the way before any one says anything) ::loony::
Title: Re: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: Franz on February 19, 2008, 05:07:53 PM
Awesome strip, looks like a mixture of Oddballs signature and Snoopy to me . . . I wonder when Chuck whips out the angle grinder and welding gear to turn the Cessna into an open cockpit biplane ?
Title: Re: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: airtac on February 19, 2008, 05:25:51 PM
Awesome strip, looks like a mixture of Oddballs signature and Snoopy to me . . . I wonder when Chuck whips out the angle grinder and welding gear to turn the Cessna into an open cockpit biplane ?
YIKES!!! Don't give him any ideas ::eek::
Title: Re: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: Oddball on February 19, 2008, 05:28:28 PM
HMMMMm a open cockpit biplane cessna 150 (what type does chuck fly again?) ::thinking:: now where is that fuselage i had to make a wing for?
Title: Re: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: airtac on February 19, 2008, 05:33:45 PM
Know some model pilots like that too, dressing up in flight suits while at airshows so people can ask them what they fly then they point to thier model spitfire (not me by the way before any one says anything) ::loony::
Yeah Right Ian, Like you don't have a flight suit and goggles you wear to bed when you've been medicating ::drinking:: ::drinking:: ;D
Title: Re: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: leiafee on February 19, 2008, 10:13:14 PM
Funny, just the other day I was talking (typiing) with some friends about the quiet little fantasies we have about our flying.
Not that I ever step out onto the wing of my little tommy-hawk and gaze around the airfield after landing, imagining I look all windswept and intersting and am posed dramatically on the wing of something far more romantic. ::whistle:: A friend in a 152 admits he sits under the wing leaning against the wheel, daydreaming barnstormer thoughts.
Don't we all fly because we never grew out of those childhood daydreams...
Go Chuck! ;)
Title: Re: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: Rooster Cruiser on February 20, 2008, 12:33:15 AM
I could just see me in the past... sitting in my ole' Peterbuilt, window down, scarf around my neck and being drawn out the open window to flap in the breeze, checking my rear view mirrors for the "enemy", i.e., Smoky Bear. What a visual! Hehe. 8) ;D ;)
Title: Re: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: airtac on February 20, 2008, 01:24:01 AM
Funny, just the other day I was talking (typiing) with some friends about the quiet little fantasies we have about our flying.
Not that I ever step out onto the wing of my little tommy-hawk and gaze around the airfield after landing, imagining I look all windswept and intersting and am posed dramatically on the wing of something far more romantic. ::whistle:: A friend in a 152 admits he sits under the wing leaning against the wheel, daydreaming barnstormer thoughts.
Don't we all fly because we never grew out of those childhood daydreams...
Go Chuck! ;)
So True, So True !! Thank you |:)\ ::bow:: |:)\ ::bow::
Title: Re: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: Mike on February 20, 2008, 04:03:10 AM
Funny, just the other day I was talking (typiing) with some friends about the quiet little fantasies we have about our flying.
Not that I ever step out onto the wing of my little tommy-hawk and gaze around the airfield after landing, imagining I look all windswept and intersting and am posed dramatically on the wing of something far more romantic. ::whistle:: A friend in a 152 admits he sits under the wing leaning against the wheel, daydreaming barnstormer thoughts.
Don't we all fly because we never grew out of those childhood daydreams...
Go Chuck! ;)
Wow. Very nicely said! ::bow::
I remember when I was a young boy I once told a girl that I thought romantic could also be sitting underneath the wing of your airplane while watching the sunset.
She laughed at me and said "THAT's not romantic!!! A candle light dinner....that's romantic!" of course.....it didn't last.....
btw, sunsets on a fire are awesome !!! The way the smoke turns the sun all red !!! (of course I got to see more sun-rises than I care to as well.......)
Title: Re: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: TheSoccerMom on February 20, 2008, 06:10:15 AM
I remember when I was a young boy I once told a girl that I thought romantic could also be sitting underneath the wing of your airplane while watching the sunset.
She laughed at me and said "THAT's not romantic!!! A candle light dinner....that's romantic!" of course.....it didn't last.....
SHE HAD NO IDEA MIKEY!!!!!!!!!!!! ::bow:: ::bow::
And, well said leiafee!!!! ::bow:: |:)\
A fire friend of ours went to a funeral today, of an old pilot who made it to 81, and flew most all his life. There were photos of his old loves -- including the big bold Corsair of WWII -- and the many, many airplanes since. A military salute also.... Then, his local friends flew a fly-by for him, too, with one guy pulling straight up, out of sight!
Now..... THAT's romantic!!!
And he said the gentleman's wife just beamed, and loved it all......
Hat's off to you, Chuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |:)\
8)
Title: Re: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: Oddball on February 20, 2008, 01:08:38 PM
well artac you re not far off i hug my first edition Vulcan XH558 as i drift off to sleep. For me its sitting on the second top step of the club hut gazing down at the grass strip dreaming of me flying one of my fun fly's going low and slow doing touch and goes with a few aerobatics thrown in or flying formation with the local buzzards just as the sun goes down.
Title: Re: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: Fabo on February 20, 2008, 02:50:51 PM
She laughed at me and said "THAT's not romantic!!! A candle light dinner....that's romantic!"
Candle lit dinner is not romantic, its a cliché.
You ere the one right in here Mike!
Title: Re: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: Frank N. O. on February 21, 2008, 04:10:43 AM
Sorry for the late response. That was so fun, but howcome he does't just jump in the Pitts and fly? (I know, fuel prices). Btw, hair? What hair? :D
I agree with the thought that we never grow up from those dreams, and I don't think we need to either as long as we know dream from reality, especially for those that can make a dreamy reality :D
Frank
Title: Re: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: tundra_flier on February 21, 2008, 10:28:06 PM
So next week will be Sparky catching chuck removing the doors from the Cessna? :D Or maybe taking an ultralight lesson? 8)
Phil
Title: Re: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: Oddball on February 22, 2008, 08:07:19 AM
chuck wil be flying "little Nellie" from you only live twice next week lol
Title: Re: WIND IN HIS HAIR
Post by: FlyboyGil on February 22, 2008, 05:52:05 PM
