Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!sun!concertina!fiddler From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Don't Mess with NASA (afterburners) Message-ID: <117411@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 24 Jul 89 21:18:04 GMT References: <33335@apple.Apple.COM> <28805@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 20 In article <28805@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, berry@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Berry Kercheval) writes: > In article <33335@apple.Apple.COM>, stadler@Apple (Andy Stadler) writes: > >I used to consider that a stereotype until about the 3rd time a Bonanza > >tried to run me down.... Why is it always Bonanzas making straight in's > >at uncontrolled airports? > > Alene calls this the "Cadillac driiver" phenomemon, as she has noticed that > a disproportionate number of Cadillacs seem to be driven by jerks. Or watching the 310 driver sail into a *WIDE* down wind leg to Angwin (top of a ridge north of Napa) which just happened to coincide with an active jump zone at nearby Pope Valley (I *told* you it was wide...), apparently with his head down in his lap. Could just as well been under the hood at the time. Couldn't understand why everyone was, like, irritated at him. (I *called* in on Unicom...!") The jumpers in the air (on their way down, literally) were just glad that he missed all of them.