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Technology Stocks : Aahh...iNEXTV (AXC) The NEXT Thing! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Trenton A. Scott who wrote (3695)	5/13/2001 10:05:19 PM
From: bootsup1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4169

Trent...thank you again for all of your work with the models...Fantastic! and Hal....your post regarding the little big boy with his superlative innocence reminds me of a story told by an old pilot friend back in the 1960's. He had flown airfreight for "Tigers" in the '60's...flying Convair 880's or Boeing 707's...(I dont remember which for sure now). Anyway...upon shortly after touchdown, Flying Tiger's procedures called for the Captain to ask the Flight Engineer to deploy the thrust reversers to slow down the airplane. Of course since the thrust reversers had the appearance of big buckets at the rear of the engines when they deployed, the command took on the vernacular of "Buckets!!"......and so upon landing, when the Captain deemed it just right, he would smartly announce "Buckets!"..and the Flight Engineer would observe check list etiquitte by deploying same. Well.... My friend left Tigers and went to work for the same carrier I flew for over many years, an Asian airline where although English was certainly spoken and mandated by int'l airline procedures for all air/air/ground communication....quite often subtle english nuances and cliches were understandably missed by many sitting in the cockpit. My Captain friend was now flying the same airplane he flew at Tigers...w/a whole new set of procedures. On one flight into Osaka, the weather was acting unpredictable and as my friend was making his final approach there the wind switched around to his tail and he was coming in hot. Upon touchdown...which was quite smooth...he realized he was about 20 knots too fast...and forgetting that he the Captain was responsible for the thrust reverers and NOT the FE he failed to pull the thrust reverers back...and instead "smartly announced...Buckets."..... Nothing happened and so again he announced "Buckets.".... Nada.... "BUCKETS!!!!"....he yelled...(and then he thought, omigosh!...I AM BUCKETS!), and he quickly pulled the reverse levers on the throttle controls back himself, slowed the airplane down along with the smoking brakes he'd been standing on practically....and pulled off on taxiway "W"..... His white shirt w/epauletes and all was soaking wet...peanut butter armpits...and he turned and looked at his oriental Flight Engineer somewhat sheepishly... and the Flight Engineer with a big gold toothed smile said... "That No Fucket, Captain, That velly good landing!" A true story. And so....AXC is also very capable of being misinterpreted here....I'm not going to call for any "buckets"...but I'd sure like to be calling for Vr!