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mark.j(at)yakuk.com
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:32 am Post subject: having fun

Guys I was wondering if you can help me. We have this sort of informal aerobatics club over here in quaint old England and try as hard as we can we just can't get the damn planes to fly straight and level for hours on end. As you guys in the US seem to have this down I was wondering if you might give us some pointers. We are obviously so crap at doing this by ourselves so we really need your help.  

   

Just to show you how bad things have got I have attached a video of our ridiculously piss poor performance.  

   

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-339593460784738519  (this link ends in “9”)  

   

Please help we are desperate.   

   

I have seen your video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2772544527369613198 (this link ends in “8”) apart from Bud Granley it seams to depict a lot of aircraft being polished, taxiing, and talk about flying, OK there are a few nice shots of solo a/c also. One thing we cant muster in UK is the L-39’s you beat us there, cheap gas I guess. Nice to see them flying.   

   

Oh and if we do really really well can you see your way clear to letting us have one or two of those cute little patches that you have ?   

   

Thanks in advance Mark Jefferies  

PPFP  

   

Piss  

Poor  

Formation  

Pilot  

   

Ps, before someone get realy hot under the collar don't take me to seriously

Frank

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 69

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:51 am Post subject: having fun

Nice  video, Mark. Liked the music too and it fits with the  aircraft. Strikes me as a celebration of flight in honor of our  Russian friends who designed the aircraft.

  

 Frank

gus.fraser(at)gs.com
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:52 am Post subject: having fun

I am just waiting for the Chang response, this should be  awesome.

  

 Gus



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		           From: owner-yak-list-server(at)matronics.com    [mailto:owner-yak-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Frank    Haertlein

Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 6:51 AM

To:    yak-list(at)matronics.com

Subject: RE: having    fun

   

   Nice    video, Mark. Liked the music too and it fits with the    aircraft. Strikes me as a celebration of flight in honor of our    Russian friends who designed the aircraft.

    

   Frank

L39parts(at)hotmail.com
Guest

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:42 am Post subject: having fun

First, you'll need to go to a bigger country.   A straight line from Lands End to Berkwick-upon-Tweed is less than 400 miles and  even then you have to jog east around the Cheviot to stay in England.   A good many 400 mile flights in the US don't even get us to a  different state.  If we start in the dead center of the US we can do  that at least 2 more times before dealing with Customs and  Immigration.  If we start from a corner...  Good thing gas is cheap  here.  

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pilling.k(at)btconnect.co
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:16 am Post subject: having fun

Pleased you accepted Mark's  tongue-in-cheek  humour in the spirit intended. Some of our US friends have  failed to translate UK humour in times past.....no names mentioned  Jim. 

  

 Regards

 kp 

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brian

Joined: 02 Jan 2006
Posts: 643
Location: Sacramento, California, USA

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:25 am Post subject: having fun

Mark Jefferies YAK Uk wrote:

 	  Quote: 	
		   Guys I was wondering if you can help me. We have this sort of informal

 aerobatics club over here in quaint old England and try as hard as we

 can we just can't get the damn planes to fly straight and level for

 hours on end. As you guys in the US seem to have this down I was

 wondering if you might give us some pointers. We are obviously so crap

 at doing this by ourselves so we really need your help.


	


Actually, old man, you don't need to. You see, we need to be able to fly

for hours and hours and hours and hours straight and level because our

country is so starkly, uncomprehendingly, unimaginably *huge*! Why just

two weeks ago I had to fly straight-and-level for 13 hours in an

airplane that goes 170 kts to get from one side to the other.



You, on the other hand, live in a more (ahem) "modestly" sized country.

{sigh} Let's face it, your country is barely bigger than your aerobatic

box. You don't *need* to fly straight and level for hours on end. Heck,

if you flew for more than 30 minutes in any one direction you would have

to start speaking French, Dutch, German, Welsh, Scottish, or Irish. (I

know, technically the Scots and the Irish speak English but they only

tell you that to fool you.)



We understand and applaud your preoccupation with aerobatics. You need

that capability to keep your aircraft within your own borders. And a

fine job you do of it too! Keep up the good work!



So relax. Go flying. Take fifteen minutes to get reacquainted with your

country's geography, what there is of it, and then nip on down to the

pub for a pint. Treat yourself to a pasty in the knowledge of a job well

done!



By the way, bloody good show!



Stiff upper lip and all that!



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		   Ps, before someone get realy hot under the collar don't take me to seriously


	


PPS: don't take me too seriously either. 



-- 

Brian Lloyd                         2243 Cattle Dr.

brian-yak at lloyd dot com          Folsom, CA 95630

+1.916.367.2131 (voice)             +1.270.912.0788 (fax)



I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . .

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Brian Lloyd
brian-yak at lloyd dot com
+1.916.367.2131 (voice) +1.270.912.0788 (fax)

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . .
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

pilling.k(at)btconnect.co
Guest

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:37 am Post subject: having fun

Lands End is for Tourists and  Berwick-upon-Tweed is for those that know no better.

  

 Fly South and then East and  take in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Denmark(minor track deviation)Germany  again ( former East Germany), a fragment of Russia, then Poland  and finally Lithuania....8 countries and languages in a single  day......even in a Yak.....a cultural extravaganza ! Awesome.

  

 At least Marks thread  interrupts the Nitrogen thread overload

  

 kp

  

  

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pilling.k(at)btconnect.co
Guest

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:37 am Post subject: having fun

Henry Kissenger and Al Haigh  could have learned a thing or two from Mark don't you all agree ?

  

 kp

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viperdoc(at)mindspring.co
Guest

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:26 am Post subject: having fun

Hey, we have that right here in the colonies....without customs to deal with! Well maybe that has been fixed now with the EU thing.

 We can go from near "proper English of the NE, southern, Mid Western, Chinese, Viet Namese, Spanish, and  EBONICS without even leaving the contentinat bounders of the Colonies!

 Doc

  

 



  

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gus.fraser(at)gs.com
Guest

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:48 am Post subject: having fun

I would just like to point out that the size of your country is not

important it is what you do with it that counts, just think what we would

have done with this place ))



Gus 



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pilling.k(at)btconnect.co
Guest

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:18 am Post subject: having fun

Laughed out loud at this post !



Smile



kp

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viperdoc(at)mindspring.co
Guest

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:00 am Post subject: having fun

Tommy..was he that littl' %$(at)#'r?

Doc

[quote] [Original Message]

 From: Kevin Pilling <pilling.k(at)btconnect.com>

 To: <yak-list(at)matronics.com>

 Date: 1/19/2006 12:18:04 PM

 Subject: Re: having fun



 



 Laughed out loud at this post !



 Smile



 kp

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barry(at)flyredstar.org
Guest

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 7:12 am Post subject: having fun

On Jan 19, 2006, at 11:59 PM, Gus wrote:



 	  Quote: 	
		   just think what we would

 have done with this place ))


	


You tried that once already....I think had you succeeded most of us 

west of Louisiana would be under Vincente Fox's rule!!!!  <phew> God 

Bless George Washington and the Founding Fathers.  Just think about how 

complicated our flying machines would all be had they not succeeded!   

Ever seen the insides of a Spitfire, Sea Fury, or Gnat?  

GEEESSH!!!!!!!!!!!



Barry

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