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re: 6 years ago today the "Sky King" stole a Bombardier Q400 and did a barrel roll
Posted on 8/10/24 at 8:17 pm to Hester Carries
Posted on 8/10/24 at 8:17 pm to Hester Carries
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Which he clearly had the talent to be a good one.
I don’t think Microsoft flight sim and a lucky barrel roll makes you “talented” to be a “good pilot”
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Posted on 8/10/24 at 8:18 pm to SouthPlains
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It’s a sad indirect commentary on society that so many men resonate with this story.
I watched band of brothers the other day and the shite really depressed me for a couple of days. I had to continually remind myself that war was hell on earth, but man those guys lived a hell of a life. Well never experience anything like that.
Posted on 8/10/24 at 8:29 pm to SouthPlains
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An average Joe living a mundane existence, but intelligent enough to realize he’s not special, never will be special, and just wants to feel something, anything exciting in a vast sea of hopelessness and just…grey drudgery.
Sounds like a typical OT baw!
Posted on 8/10/24 at 8:40 pm to LegendInMyMind
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There was the guy in Mississippi, I think.
He somehow put it down in a field. Then died in federal custody a few months later. Wild
Posted on 8/10/24 at 8:48 pm to jcaz
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Then died in federal custody a few months later
I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you.
Posted on 8/10/24 at 8:50 pm to stout
The o-t thread on that was legendary
Posted on 8/10/24 at 8:50 pm to stout
Sky King was a name of a TV program in the late fifties. The program dealt with a plane called Sky King and I think that the plane was used to apprehend the bad guys.
Posted on 8/10/24 at 8:52 pm to Rize
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Was there another guy that stole a plane and crashed it more recently?
You may be thinking about a kid from North Carolina who stole a Cessna 172 from Addison Airport in January. Intentionally crashed it about an hour and s half later.
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"About right now you'll probably realize that I’m not going to listen to y’all's instructions and I’m just heading to East Texas," he said, according to ATC recordings obtained by NBC News. "I’m going to pull the comm 1 circuit breaker and the comm 2 circuit breaker right here soon, as soon as I unkey the mic."
Posted on 8/10/24 at 10:10 pm to stout
The most striking thing was ATC and the Skyking bonding briefly over the beauty of Rainier and the Olympic mountains.
Posted on 8/11/24 at 12:14 am to 0x15E
quote:What about taking off, cruising around for hours, being calm and chopping it up, and doing flips and barrel rolls with exactly zero seconds of flight experience?
I don’t think Microsoft flight sim and a lucky barrel roll makes you “talented” to be a “good pilot”
You’re staying that doesn’t show he could be a good pilot?
Posted on 8/11/24 at 12:35 am to 0x15E
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I don’t think Microsoft flight sim and a lucky barrel roll makes you “talented” to be a “good pilot”
You dont think he should aptitude?
Cmon man.
Posted on 8/11/24 at 12:41 am to highup7
quote:I remember being buck-toothed and skinny, writing them letters to Sky’s niece Penny
Sky King was a name of a TV program in the late fifties.
Posted on 8/11/24 at 1:07 am to Gaggle
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remember being buck-toothed and skinny, writing them letters to Sky’s niece Penny
For the love of Jimmy Buffett ...
He was "writing FAN letters to Sky KING AND PENNY."
Posted on 8/11/24 at 1:45 am to White Roach
I’ll give you ‘fan’ but he definitely says ‘sky’s niece’
Posted on 8/11/24 at 1:48 pm to stout
This kid deserves a folk song about him
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