Interesting to have such clearly defined " Masonic and non Masonic " perspectives.
I shot coffee out of my nose with that one! I'm still laughing....
411A nailed it. His stock's up a few points (and it needed to be!)
The plaque on the wall of my flying club in the late eighties said it all: under a photo of the club's geared-up T-34A, it said,
"All the excuses in all the world will not help you if you run your aircraft out of fuel."