Deliverance
I once rode shotgun on a cross-country flight (Van Nuys airport to La Guardia Airport) in a 4-seat Beechcraft Bonanza. The pilot was a Russian pediatrician named Vladimir. It was a two-day trip, and I'll never forget flying blind through heavy fog as we approached St. Louis and having to be talked down by the air-traffic controller there. You couldn't see a blessed thing for minutes on end, and all you had to go by was the voice of this kindly, intelligent and very comforting man on the radio speaker.
And then suddenly the air-strip lights appeared, and as anti-religion as I am today and was before, I nearly wept when it hit me that the lights really do form a crucifix. William Wellman knew whereof he spoke.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 16, 2008 at 6:23 PM
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Walter Sobchak says ...
Good thing it wasn't a Beechcraft Baron with Dana Andrews at the stick. He probably would've had a heart attack and flown your plane right into the cockpit of a Columbia Airlines 747... the flight crew of that 747 would be incapacitated so controlling that four-engine beast would've fallen into the hands of nervous, crazy-eyed stewardess.... of course she wouldn't have been able to land the plane at Salt Lake, the runways are two short and there's trouble with number 2 engine... somehow they'd have to come up with a way to put a pilot INTO flight 401... but how?.. and who?
Posted by Walter Sobchak at August 16, 2008 6:44 PM
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joncro says ...
That reminds me of McCain's 'cross scratched in the dirt of the prison camp parade ground' story.
Posted by joncro at August 16, 2008 7:33 PM
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filmsofdust says ...
OFF TOPIC:
No wonder Woody Allen has been irrelevant for years, he has never turned on a computer and has no idea how one works.
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Posted by filmsofdust at August 16, 2008 11:41 PM
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nelson37 says ...
Guess that means he'll never find out that filmsofdust thinks he's irrelevant.
Posted by nelson37 at August 17, 2008 5:24 AM
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colby says ...
"So long, you ancient pelican. "
Posted by colby at August 17, 2008 12:55 PM
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