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Name The Pilot
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:26 am
by admin
Name a pilot who was famous and connected in some way with Rickenbacker.
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:28 am
by longhouse
Are you serious?
It's impossible to do an internet search for Rickenbacker (Ebay especially) without getting a tutorial on the person you're referencing.
Still, there are probably some who don't know.
So I'll shut up.
~n~
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:28 am
by teeder
Eddie
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:30 am
by bmi_guy
Eddie it is! - I know ma' 'merican history...
Also - I think Pete Townsend has a pilot's license...
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:49 am
by admin
Eddie Rickenbacker is one possibility, however, I am not thinking of him. Carry on Rickenbacker.
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:00 am
by johnhall
I have to admit I'm stumped, and as a pilot, I guess I should know the answer. Peter's got something up his sleeve . . .
I could say Pierre Thuot but everyone would say "huh"?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:24 am
by phlemmy
Lemmy can fly, but it's usually meth induced. Does that count?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:54 am
by admin
Neither Pete, Pierre nor Lemmy.
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:10 am
by longhouse
Well strike my first comment from the record.
There is a Rickenbacker Int. Airport and a Rickenbacker Air Reserve Base, but I can't think of any particular pilot beside Edward Vernon Rickenbacker.
hmmm
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:33 am
by marty
Although not famous for being a pilot ,I'm pretty sure I read a Maurice Gibb interview somewhere where he mentioned piloting a Cessna plane, or co-piloting a plane with his brother Andy at the controls and Maurice giving Andy instructions...Is it Maurice by any chance?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:34 am
by admin
No I did not have Maurice in mind, however, if what you say it true, I will the next time. I like your interpretation though.
I would make the distinction between a pilot who was famous and a famous pilot as you have done.
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:34 am
by johnhall
I'm not sure how famous he is as a pilot, but how about Jimmy Buffet?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:37 am
by admin
Not Jimmy, but, at this rate, I am about to be found out any time soon. So any of these answers would have to be as good as the one I intially thought of.
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:00 am
by leftybass
Alright, I'll throw this out:
How 'bout the bass player in the band 'Pilot'(their hit was "Magic") who played a 4001?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:13 am
by admin
Good but no cigar Lefty.