ALWAYS ASK, NEVER ASSUME !!!!! - The Firearms Forum

Ranger-1 · 01-26-2010, 06:14 PM

His request approved, the CNN News photographer quickly used a cell phone to call the local airport to charter a flight.

He was told a twin-engine plane would be waiting for him at the airport.

Arriving at the airfield, he spotted a plane warming up outside a hanger.

He jumped in with his bag, slammed the door shut, and shouted, 'Let's go'.

The pilot taxied out, swung the plane into the wind and took off.

Once in the air, the photographer instructed the pilot, 'Fly over the valley and make low passes so I can take pictures of the fires on the hillsides.'

'Why ?!?' asked the pilot.

'Because I'm a photographer for CNN, he responded, and I need to get some close up shots.'

The pilot was strangely silent for a moment, finally he stammered, 'So, what you're telling me, is . . . You're NOT my flight instructor ?!?'

"Life has it's ups & downs !!!

Nighthawk · 01-26-2010, 06:46 PM

coreyacp · 01-26-2010, 06:52 PM

navis128 · 01-26-2010, 06:55 PM

My daddy will like this one too...

artabr · 01-26-2010, 06:58 PM

Art

glocknut · 01-26-2010, 08:59 PM

Kinda grabs ya by the booboo dont it man....

gn

petesusn · 01-27-2010, 04:18 AM

Is this when the "pucker factor" comes into play?

Trouble 45-70 · 01-27-2010, 12:12 PM

Must have been a tense landing.

swiftman · 01-27-2010, 08:54 PM

Getting them off the ground is the easy part, landing in one piece on the right spot is the hard part, but you are going to land somewhere.

01-26-2010, 06:14 PM	#1
Ranger-1 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: So. California Posts: 53	ALWAYS ASK, NEVER ASSUME !!!!! His request approved, the CNN News photographer quickly used a cell phone to call the local airport to charter a flight. He was told a twin-engine plane would be waiting for him at the airport. Arriving at the airfield, he spotted a plane warming up outside a hanger. He jumped in with his bag, slammed the door shut, and shouted, 'Let's go'. The pilot taxied out, swung the plane into the wind and took off. Once in the air, the photographer instructed the pilot, 'Fly over the valley and make low passes so I can take pictures of the fires on the hillsides.' 'Why ?!?' asked the pilot. 'Because I'm a photographer for CNN, he responded, and I need to get some close up shots.' The pilot was strangely silent for a moment, finally he stammered, 'So, what you're telling me, is . . . You're NOT my flight instructor ?!?' "Life has it's ups & downs !!! -->

01-26-2010, 06:46 PM	#2
Nighthawk Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: South Central Texas Posts: 3,330	Re: ALWAYS ASK, NEVER ASSUME !!!!! __________________ Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives." --John Adams, letter to Benjamin Rush, April 18, 1808 NRA Life TSRA Life GOA Member

01-26-2010, 06:52 PM	#3
coreyacp Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Portland Oregon, USA Posts: 787	Re: ALWAYS ASK, NEVER ASSUME !!!!! LOL

01-26-2010, 06:55 PM	#4
navis128 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 1,392	Re: ALWAYS ASK, NEVER ASSUME !!!!! My daddy will like this one too... __________________ A British general reported to London that the rebels, though untrained, had earned his respect: "Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob will find himself much mistaken." "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." The Declaration of Independence

01-26-2010, 06:58 PM	#5
artabr Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: New Iberia, Louisiana Contributor Posts: 7,859	Re: ALWAYS ASK, NEVER ASSUME !!!!! Art __________________ God and the soldier we like adore, In times of trouble, not before. When troubles ended and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier is slighted. Francis Quarles 1592 - 1644 __________________ When asked for my race, I answer CauCajun. Hope is not a plan, and not all change is good. The resistance is here; the resistance is now. RESIST! These hands are neither cold nor are they dead!!

01-26-2010, 08:59 PM	#6
glocknut Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: THE FORUM MASCOTT... Posts: 12,482	Re: ALWAYS ASK, NEVER ASSUME !!!!! Kinda grabs ya by the booboo dont it man.... gn __________________ Where O where are you tonight? Why have you gone and left me alone? I searched to world over and a thought i found true love... You met another and PTThhh you were gone....

01-27-2010, 04:18 AM	#7
petesusn Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: San Joaquin Valley, Ca. Posts: 614	Re: ALWAYS ASK, NEVER ASSUME !!!!! Is this when the "pucker factor" comes into play? __________________ Self Defense: A basic human right The 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1787, refers to the National Guard, which was created 130 years later, in 1917. A man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile...can respond with a great deal of pride and satisfaction, "I served in the U. S. Navy." John F. Kennedy VFW Life Member

01-27-2010, 12:12 PM	#8
Trouble 45-70 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: NE Ar. W. of Black River Contributor Posts: 2,703	Re: ALWAYS ASK, NEVER ASSUME !!!!! Must have been a tense landing. __________________ Psalm 12 verse 8: The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted.

01-27-2010, 08:54 PM	#9
swiftman V.I.P. Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: East Central Ill Posts: 220	Re: ALWAYS ASK, NEVER ASSUME !!!!! Getting them off the ground is the easy part, landing in one piece on the right spot is the hard part, but you are going to land somewhere.