[Spits] Funny and Interesting Quote on Planes and Triumphs

[Kevin Rhodes]

LOL - the good old "diesel-9". I've been a Northwest (sadly now 
Delta) frequent flyer for many years and have flown countless miles 
on them. That writer had it wrong - most of those birds were born in 
the early-mid 60s, so quite likely older than the pilot's car (older 
than the pilot quite possibly). Reliable like my Spitfire - not as 
much to break!

Kevin Rhodes
Westbrook, Maine
Freddy the mongrel Spitfire (owned 15 years in July - good grief, how 
old does that make ME!?)


At 08:17 AM 5/3/2010, Doug Mitchell wrote:
> >From the Detroit Free Press, Sunday 05-02-2010
>in a travel section article:
>Planes: All except two were your basic crowded
>Boeing 737s or Airbus A319s.
>The smallest was
>a surprisingly comfortable 60-seat Embraer RJ145
>from Houston
>to Mexico City. The oldest was a
>1970s B-era DC-9 on a Delta route between
>Detroit
>and Hartford, Conn. When things got bumpy, that
>DC-9 bounced around
>like a dog on a trampoline.
>
>bWhen are you going to get rid of this old
>plane?bI
>asked the pilot as we were exiting. He grinned and
>said he loved
>flyB-ing it because it was reliable and
>like driving his old TriB-umph sports
>car.
>B
>B
>Doug Mitchell
>--
>dmitchel at sbcglobal.net
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