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Old 1st Sep 2001, 01:40
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Vsf
 
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Hey, B.Loser:

Gimmee one of those Wal-Mart applications, please. I dunno if this fixed wing career is going to work out (yet, but I'm doing my best...), and the guys at the blood bank won't buy any more pints from me. Hard to trade in my great photo album (rotary wing adventures) for a mortgage or orthodontics for the dependents.

If I was a rich, or even well to do, airline pilot, I'd buy me a Bell 47 to tinker with on weekends. It would scratch the rotary urge and the $65K or so it cost would be chump change compared to the forsaken earnings stream of a f/w to r/w shift.

And, when it's yer own toy, they don't tell you to fly that single engine bird at night...over mountains...in marginal weather...
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