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Old 16th Jul 2013, 11:52
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john_tullamarine
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Remember that a PA18 (Piper Cub) is the safest aeroplane ever built....it can only just kill you.

.. ah, but having cut my teeth on glider towing with the Super Cub many decades ago ... it sure can frighten you very effectively from time to time as only a young and foolishly overconfident chap knows ... real good for wave soaring after all the plastic fantastics have launched for the day though ..

Definitely the best fun one can have with clothes on.

As has been said in various places, the only differences between killing oneself in Aircraft A versus Aircraft B are ..

(a) the size of the hole and the amount of smoke

(b) whether, and on which page, the news is recorded the following day.
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