Rain Forest #65

Well, for one, Dannon, I'd sure buy your book if you wrote it. You have the words as well as the experiences.

Thanks Ma,

We all have interesting stories to tell - some more than others I am sure.........

There are many more things I think of that I've experienced.......

Like """Saint Elmo's Fire""" while flying and watching B-52's lighting up the landscape W of the RVN.

Seeing "TWO" complete circle rainbows one inside the other.

or,

One day, which was clear blue skies, there was a tiny cloud over a fire in the landscape below that was actually dropping rain??????

Or,

One day, just tooling along, I looked down and saw multiple explosions from mortars below my plane. Thinking, to myself, mortars go up - and mortars go down - JEESE!! I'm flying through a mortar attack!!

or, on a more purposeful day,

After completing the mission, just having some fun flying on the way back to base. Like - an isolated artillery base - way out in no-man's-land....... I would fly low to the ground around the base of the hill they were on until I saw tiny sparks from the landscape. Then I knew that at least the guys on the hilltop knew where the "bad guys" were. Hmmm, after all these years, I'm actually wondering who the "bad guys" really were in that conflict.

Dan, great stories!

I've never flown an airplane in quite the same conditions as your accounts <thanking the universe> - your stories are really good meriting
documentation. Ya gotta write a book, Dan!

Terrific reading, thanks.

Thanks for the stories.

And yes, I would buy that book too.

Well, I lost THAT one in cyberspace. Start again. I love your stories, Danon. Keep them coming.
Question: was there a trainer for the F-80 that had a prop? It would have been the precurser to the t-33. maybe. We had a C.A.P. cadet campout in 1947 at Westover Field and the absolute high point was going up in this incredibly fast two seater, doing barrel rolls - but I thought it was a prop plane.

Here's the thing, Dan: at the time these little vest-pocket "adventures" befell you, they were probably no more than a momentary shot of adrenalin to the nervous system, a brief shaking of the head, maybe worth telling once at the O-Club, then -- for all practical purposes -- forgotten. But they are resurfacing now in a somewhat different light and you certainly have the skill with words to regale a wider audience with these experiences. Now I'm getting serious: you should write them all down in whatever sequence seems best to you. There's a book in there. I know there is.

I'll second that! Go to it, Dan.

danon, your vest-pocket chapters are giving me lil adrenaline rushes. Better than caffeine!

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aktbird57 - You and your 284 friends have supported 2,130,595.8 square feet!

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Hehehe, glad to entertain you all. A book?? What a novel idea........... I'll think about it.

OK.

One evening my friend in Vietnam had just returned from a flight to Saigon. He was shaking his head in wonder. I asked him what was bothering him. He said, "As I neared Saigon I tuned in the tower to report my position and request landing instructions - you know, the usual stuff. I heard this Vietnamese in the tower trying to direct traffic and failing miserably at it. Then there was this silence - and all of a sudden the Vietnamese tower guy told us "Everybody Saigon area, go away and come back in 10 minutes!!!" Saigon airfield is the busiest airfield in the world.......So everybody just started landing as they could."
After that, I was shaking my head.

All clicked

Keep goin',Dan. Great stuff.
I suppose everybody knows this, but I'll say it anyway: when the first screen comes up for the Rainforest, I don't sign in but just click, since the URL is in the familiar akbird number. Then I go on with my others.That gives an exra click a day. Is that correct?

That is correct wayfarer........! Great clicking.....

Also, after you have clicked your first name - hit the logout button - the Thank You and you've been signed out screen comes up - then hit your URL for the rain forest screen that you bring up for that first "free" click - (((now WAIT 60 secs))) and without signing in just get another free click - then go ahead and sign in and click again as usual. It's all in the timing..... I noticed they made this change about a year ago and it would on average take about a minute then you would get a free click again. It works everytime for me. I play Minesweeper in between named clicks because it has a second timer.

Late clicks for me today.
I drove to Texarkana early this morning to get a right rear window motor for our auto. There is a huge wrecking yard there that has a few autos like mine. I pulled the part I wanted and came home and installed it. Works great.

I'm a licensed Airplane Mechanic too. Did that to work on my own plane years ago. grin

Hmmmm, after re-reading the above - it's confusing.......

Ok,

There are "groupings" in multiple clicks - ie., one person clicking for more than one person =

We normally sign in and click for the first person.

Then we log that person out - That is the first grouping - and, go back to the original URL and sign in the next person and click. Log that person out and follow the above example. Right??????

Well, after you Sign In the first person and click for that name and then log that person out - You use the same URL that you used for the first person to bring the next screen up . Then when the Log In screen comes up - instead of SIGNING in the next person - WAIT 60 SECONDS - then bring up the URL that you used to click the first time and just click the Rain Forest......!!!!! It's a FREE click in between each name click that you click. IE., for each SEVEN clicks that I have registered - I get FIFTEEN clicks each day.

It's all Legal, Legitimate and Accepted by the current rules governed by the Care2 people.

Go Click AKTeam!!!!!!!

aktbird57 - You and your 284 friends have supported 2,132,937.2 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 85,800.7 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 284 friends have supported: (85,800.7)

American Prairie habitat supported: 44,030.1 square feet.
You have supported: (11,026.0)
Your 284 friends have supported: (33,004.1)

Rainforest habitat supported: 2,003,106.4 square feet.
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has anyone seen devriesj?

Not recently.

((Love the Santa Caps....))

Aren't they a hoot! I'm sure mrs. hamburger will giggle when she sees them.

o.k. - off to do devriesj's click

grrrrrrrr
something's wrong with the password
grrrrrrrrrrr

Passwords are the pits and in dire need of a little John Weitz..................

Anyone know where I can get refills..??

- - - of the John Weitz,

Been looking for years - can't find any..........

It's a man's cologne.

aww, cute caps, ehBeth!

Dan, checked fragrance.com <terrific selection btw>- but no John Weitz cologne. You can find cloths by Wietz at eBay though. Research said John Weitz passed away recently.

A lovely tribute written by a good friend of Weitzs....

http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20021027cloud1027fnp1.asp

{sigh} I grow old, Father William..er Father Damon. I somehow can't wrap my head around the method, but the idea of ten clicks rather than five is quite compelling, so I will continue to try to figure it out.