Think Tank

Michael McCafferty
This personal web site is large, and is overflowing with great thoughts, brilliant pictures, business ideas, all put together by a truly great mind and entrepreneur... Michael McCafferty. Michael is an aviator, and a very successful individual in many different fields of endeavor. Take your time looking through the site...because the more you look, the more you will feel like this guy has truly discovered the very essence of life. He freely shares his thoughts about his failures, being a free spirit, and his many successes. I believe he sets a great example in finding your way in our sometimes frustrating world. This is an enjoyable journey with someone that will seem like a long time friend when you finish.

Wings Over Canada
John Lovelace has put together an excellent website... Wings Over Canada... A Bush Pilots Odyssey of Discovery in Wilderness Canada. This section deals with a collection of some great aviation related humor. We refer to other parts of Wings Over Canada in some other areas, but as long as your looking... take off into the other sections and take a look at a very successful series of adventures in Wilderness Canada. An on-going adventure that I hope will never end. John has created an evolving masterpiece that allows us to catch a real glimpse of the Canadian wilderness.

General Aviation Wisdom & Humor

Airspeed
Speed of an airplane. Deduct 25% when listening to a Air Force Pilot.

Angle of Attack
Pick up lines a pilot uses

Bank
The folks who hold the lien on most pilots cars

Barrel Roll
Sport enjoyed at squadron picnic, usually after the barrels are empty

Carburetor Icing
A phenomenon happening to aero club pilots at exactly the same time they run out of fuel

Cone of Confusion
An area about the size of New Jersey located near the final approach beacon at an airport

Crab
The squadron Ops officer

Dead Reckoning
You reckon correctly, or you are

Engine Failure
A condition which occurs when all fuel tanks become filled with air

Firewall
Section of the aircraft designed to let heat and smoke enter the cockpit

Glide Distance
Half the distance from an aircraft to the nearest emergency landing field

Hydroplane
An airplane designed to land on a wet runway, 20,000 feet long

IFR
A method of flying by needle and parachute

Nanosecond
Time Delay built into the stall warning system

Parasitic Drag
A pilot who bums a ride back and complains about the service

Range
Usually about 30 miles beyond the point where the fuel tanks fill with air

Roger
Used when you are not sure what else to say

Spoilers
The Federal Aviation Administration

Stall
Technique used to explain to the bank why your car payment is late

Tactics
What a clock sounds like when it needs fixing

Yankee
Any pilot that asks Houston tower to "Say Again"

Don't name a pig you plan to eat

Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight, and bull strong.

Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce

Keep skunks and lawyers at a distance.

Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps.

A bumble bee is faster than a John Deere tractor.

Trouble with a milk cow is she won't stay milked.

Don't skinny dip with snapping turtles.

Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.

Meanness don't happen overnight.

To know how country folks are doing, look at their barns, not their houses.

Never lay an angry hand on a kid or an animal, it just ain't helpful.

Teachers, Moms, and hoot owls sleep with one eye open.

Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.

Don't sell your mule to buy a plow.

Two can live as cheap as one if one don't eat.

Don't corner something meaner than you.

You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, assuming you want to catch flies.

Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds.

It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

Don't go huntin' with a fellow named Chug-A-Lug.

You can't unsay a cruel thing.

Every path has some puddles.

Don't wrestle with pigs: You'll get all muddy and the pigs will love it.

The best sermons are lived, not preached.

Most of the stuff people worry about never happens.

The Ten Commandments display was removed from the Alabama Supreme Court building. There was a good reason for the move. You can't post Thou Shalt Not Steal, Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery and Thou Shall Not Lie in a building full of lawyers and Politicians without creating a hostile work environment.

Don't Squat With Yer Spurs On

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