Comments on: Fingers in the Airport Fence Entwined – And the Book Is Out! http://airspeedonline.com/2007/12/fingers-in-the-airport-fence-entwined-and-the-book-is-out/ Mon, 15 May 2017 14:44:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: Rick Marriner http://airspeedonline.com/2007/12/fingers-in-the-airport-fence-entwined-and-the-book-is-out/#comment-66 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:21:00 +0000 http://airspeedonline.com/?p=86#comment-66 I just got my 4 copies in the mail of “Airspeed: The first two years.” Two copies are getting wrapped for each of my CFi’s, one for my Pop and one for my and my wife & kids reading.

It is great stuff and I highly recommend the book. Having a printed copy of the ballad, “Fingers in the Airport Fence…” is a nice touch. Glad Tupper waited to publish until this part was done. The kids make me read parts of it over and over again.

Fly safe,
Rick

P.S. I used this Christmas 2 week break to add 35 more landings and 5.7 hours to my training logbook. Winter cross winds are kicking my rear down here at KDWH. Happy holidays.

]]> By: Stephen Force (Steve Tupper) http://airspeedonline.com/2007/12/fingers-in-the-airport-fence-entwined-and-the-book-is-out/#comment-63 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:19:00 +0000 http://airspeedonline.com/?p=86#comment-63 Many thanks for the kind comments. There was a fair amount of labor in bringing this one into the world. Guess the small amount of Robert Service that I thought I had in me had to be beaten up and dragged out. But I’m nevertheless very happy with the result.

About the only thing other than the title that came easily was the F-16 part. If I may be so bold, I’ll echo mcetter’s comment that the F-16 line gets me all choked up, too. I fucking love F-16s, F/A-18s and F-15s. Love, love, love. Lots of other very capable airplanes out there, but those just get me at a visceral level.

The C-130 roaring overhead was the “hey, what’s up?” element, but I wanted to have a “this is serious shit” realization for the narrator and a two-ship flight of F-16s was the very thing. “F-16″ and “serious shit” are near-synonymous. You can look it up!

Sorry for the rough language, but I feel these things deeply and the language is broad for a reason. I keep the show audio family-friendly, but I can vent every now and then on the blog.

Thanks, everyone! You really keep me going !

]]> By: leiafee http://airspeedonline.com/2007/12/fingers-in-the-airport-fence-entwined-and-the-book-is-out/#comment-61 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:07:00 +0000 http://airspeedonline.com/?p=86#comment-61 Oh dear, I was in floods of tears very quickly indeed.

Beautiful.

]]> By: mcetter http://airspeedonline.com/2007/12/fingers-in-the-airport-fence-entwined-and-the-book-is-out/#comment-60 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:38:00 +0000 http://airspeedonline.com/?p=86#comment-60 I still have no idea why, but after listening to this three times, “Viper-Six is a two ship flight, and Sir, we’re F-16s” is where I get all choked up.

Wow. What a treasure this episode is. “Take your kids to the airport” and “Why I Fly” were great. But this sets the bar very high indeed.

]]> By: Rick Marriner http://airspeedonline.com/2007/12/fingers-in-the-airport-fence-entwined-and-the-book-is-out/#comment-59 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:28:00 +0000 http://airspeedonline.com/?p=86#comment-59 This poem deeply moved me. I don’t know what put me in the “able to be moved” mood, if it was the rainy weather or because I am way the heck over here on the wrong side of the Atlantic Ocean missing my wife and kids, but your poem nearly shook me up.

I had to do the old Navy Officer sleeve wipe to get the “haze” out of my eyes to regain my composure.

This was the first podcast of yours I listened to, but it was enough to make me buy a couple copies of your book in order to pass them out as Christmas gifts to my CFI and some closer friends who fly. I am only 4.2 hours into getting my PPL so still building a network of friends down here at KDWH.

It was perfect timing. This morning I took a online test for the PPL just to see what I don’t know and scored less than 60% over 100 questions. I needed your poem today to get me thinking again about how exciting it is to fly and how I can’t wait to get back home this week and get back in that old Piper Cherokee and fire it up.

Well done and very moving. Looking forward to getting the books from Lulu in the mail soon.

rem

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