Hank was the real deal...great guy and a trail blazer and superb athlete. When the Atlanta stadium was being named here a big important person was Ted Turner (as in founder of CNN). He was already very famous and rich. When they named the stadium Hank Aaron Stadium was the favored name for...
Called "auto-rotation" as I know it...supposedly a "glide" using the rotors as much as that works.
My good friend, Dean, was a chopper pilot in VN. He had to auto-rotate into Cambodia (an operation the US constantly denied actually happened). He said the landing is not smooth...they survived...
I did have one family call me to rescue their cat...the previous "tree guy" that showed up could only get about 45 feet up when he "ran out of rope". Cat was about 70 feet up.
The teenage girl had asked him how he planned to save the cat before he started up the tree (shirtless he was, she...
Do NOT call me to rescue that one when she gets up in a tree....:D
I have had people tell me, "when you get up to the cat just put her on your shoulders...she likes to ride there..."
yeah, right....:lol:
Both were male. One was 17 yrs old and I was probably 23 yrs...he had been "challenged" since birth I think...probably schizophrenic...an incredibly talented artist but very "different" from most young folks.
The other one was my cousin that was my age...we grew up together. He fought his...
That is interesting, Jim. I did not see that thread but I have had two first cousins kill themselves over the years. Both by gunshot to the heart which as I understand it is unusual.
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