Ring makers – Bob Boettger, Sandy Taylor, and I used to make rings and other things from the pieces of duralumin which we cut from the bent and broken airscrews found in the graveyard before the wreck was ploughed into the earth. One rainy day, Bob and I went to the graveyard to get a supply of duralumin before they bulldozed a new wreck into the soil. In the process of nosing through the wreck, Bob pulled back what was left of an instrument panel and somebody’s brains oozed down. This ended our hobby of making rings and other jewellery in the machine shop.
O’Driscoll vs. Kennedy – Don O’Driscoll was a card and he always put a spade where a spade ought to be. He was just getting airborne with Squadron Leader Kennedy for his wings test when Kennedy, as he did with me, closed the throttle. O’Driscoll, amazed, opened the throttle as quickly as possible without flooding the radial Wasp engine and hollered into the communication tube, “What the hell are you trying to do, kill both of us?” Kennedy related later that he couldn’t help but laugh, but I bet a dollar-to-a-doughnut that the instructor was reminded of a certain methodology that was, probably, not taught to O’Driscoll.
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