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To: sharkhawk
Note to Southwest:

Hire more ex-Navy pilots.

8 posted on 12/08/2005 5:40:47 PM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: piasa

#3 wire please


24 posted on 12/08/2005 5:43:56 PM PST by ChefKeith ( If Diplomacy worked, then we would be sitting here talking... And I'm getting sick of talking!)
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To: piasa

Did you know....

Southwest has a Space Shuttle Commander flying their planes? "Hoot" Gibson who did 4 flights as Commander and one as Pilot.

He retired from NASA and needed a job! His wife is Rhea Seddon, another very experienced astronaut, who did 3 shuttle flights.


54 posted on 12/08/2005 5:58:47 PM PST by Central Scrutiniser (Christmas is annoying, Happy Festivus)
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To: piasa
Hire more ex-Navy pilots.

Need tailhooks.

55 posted on 12/08/2005 5:59:16 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
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To: piasa

"...Hire more ex-Navy pilots...."

If he is still with Southwest, Robert L. "Hoot" Gibson is a former Navy jet jockey and a former astronaut.


127 posted on 12/08/2005 6:35:51 PM PST by NCC-1701 (RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ERADICATED ASAP)
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To: piasa

"Note to Southwest:
Hire more ex-Navy pilots."

I'm just tuning in....I take it you're an ex-navy pilot. Wasn't that what the airlines did after Vietnam? ....hire ex-military pilots? That was probably their greatest source of experienced pilots. Am I correct?


228 posted on 12/08/2005 7:45:05 PM PST by toldyou
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To: piasa
Hire more ex-Navy pilots.

Maybe that was the problem...he missed the three-wire!

281 posted on 12/08/2005 9:32:40 PM PST by poindexter
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