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You have to earn your seat around this campfire. The price of admission? Well, you have to fly, skydive or be one of the rare few "regular folks" (non aviators) who accepted an invite and actually showed up -- and most never show up (most people balk when "no facilities and no trees or bushes" is mentioned). The tall tales told around this fire range from true-life, truly harrowing "there I was", stories, to amusing anecdotes born from the diverse professional backgrounds of fly-in participants. But "there I was" type stories dominate. |
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Tall
Tales Did a group of pilots really throw a live chicken out of an aircraft at 500 feet after wagering amongst themselves whether or not the chicken would fly or fall? If you toss a bowling ball from an airplane, will it really whistle like a freefalling bomb? If you were standing in the camp when this bowling ball came whistling in, would you run, hide, crouch, duck under a truck or test the statistical likelihood that standing upright you are a smaller vertical target, and therefore less likely to be hit? (thanks to Joe for proving this theory -- and thanks to Frank for being such a great bombardier -- the bowling ball was skillfully planted safely away from camp.) Do we really set up targets and have pumpkin bombing contests from 200 feet? Did one pumpkin bomber accidentally throw the pumpkin into the propeller of his aircraft? Did a Mooney (that's a type of airplane) really race a Ford Mustang (that's a car) around the lakebed at 90mph and 20 feet off the deck? Did the Mooney win? Did a US Navy FA-18 Hornet jet fighter really buzz our campsite one year? Did we really leave two f-cked-up "ravers" (those kids who drop E and party all night) stranded in their truck all night, and all the next day, because they wouldn't come into our camp and apologize for harassing us the night before? There's one way to find out; come out and take your seat around the fire. |