Don't forget, on Saturday and Sunday, April 17-18, 2004, Anita Landwehr will be joining over 10,000 other cyclists riding 180 miles from Houston to Austin in the annual BP MS 150 Bike Tour. (Ouch - talk about saddle sore!) The tour is a charity fundraising event supporting the National MS Society's fight against multiple sclerosis. She will be riding as part of the Baker Botts team. Let's all support her by contributing to the National MS Society. By making a pledge, you are supporting MS research, programs and education. You are also helping her achieve her fundraising goal of $300.00! Instead of going to the trouble of mailing a check, you can use the following link to donate online in her name. You can "cut and paste" the below link into your web browser to go to the BP MS 150 site, where donating is fast, easy and secure. At the website you will be able to choose an amount to donate and make the donation immediately. Anita will be notified via email as soon as you make your pledge. Go, go, go Anita!

http://www.ms150.org/ms150/donate/donate.cfm

Be sure to fill in her name, Anita Landwehr and email address, anita.landwehr@eds.com so she will get credit. If you would like more information about the tour and about MS, the site has a wealth of information.

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Chuckles!

Subject: Truisms for pilots

Forget all that stuff about thrust and drag, lift and gravity; an aeroplane
flies because of money !!!

It's better to be down here wishing you were up there, than up there wishing
you were down here.

If you're ever faced with a forced landing at night, turn on the landing
lights to see the landing area. If you don't like what you see, turn' em
back off.

A check ride ought to be like a skirt, short enough to be interesting but
still be long enough to cover everything.

Speed is life, altitude is life insurance. No one has ever collided with the sky.

Always remember you fly an airplane with your head, not your hands.

Never let an airplane take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five
minutes earlier.

Don't drop the aircraft in order to fly the microphone. An airplane flies
because of a principle discovered by Bernoulli, not Marconi.

"Unskilled" pilots are always found in the wreckage with their hand around
the microphone.

If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger; if you pull the stick
back, they get smaller. (Unless you keep pulling the stick back-then they
get bigger again.)

Hovering is for pilots who love to fly but have no place to go.

The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.

Flying is the second greatest thrill known to man. Landing is the first!

Everyone already knows the definition of a 'good' landing is one from which
you can walk away. But very few know the definition of a 'great' landing.
It's one after which you can use the airplane another time.

The probability of survival is equal to the angle of arrival.
IFR: I Follow Roads.

You know you've landed with the wheels up when it takes full power to taxi.
Those who hoot with the owls by night, should not fly with the eagles by day.

A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and round and
reciprocating parts going up and down - all of them trying to become random
in motion.

Helicopters can't really fly - they're just so ugly that the earth
immediately repels them.

Pilots believe in clean living. They never drink whiskey from a dirty glass.

Things which do you no good in aviation: Altitude above you. Runways behind
you. Fuel in the truck. Half a second ago. Approach plates in the car. The
airspeed you don't have.

If God meant man to fly, He'd have given him more money.

What's the difference between God and fighter pilots? God doesn't think he's
a fighter pilot.

Flying is not dangerous; crashing is dangerous.

A good simulator check ride is like successful surgery on a corpse.

Asking what a pilot thinks about the FAA is like asking a tree what it
thinks about dogs.

Trust your captain but keep your seat belt securely fastened.

An airplane may disappoint a good pilot, but it won't surprise him.

Any pilot who relies on a terminal forecast can be sold the Brooklyn Bridge.
If he relies on winds-aloft reports he can be sold Niagara Falls.

The friendliest flight attendants are those on the trip home.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

Being an airline pilot would be great if you didn't have to go on all those trips.

Aviation is not so much a profession as it is a disease.

The nicer an airplane looks, the better it flies.

There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately, no
one knows what they are.

It's a good landing if you can still get the doors open.

Passengers prefer old captains and young flight attendants.

The only thing worse than a captain who never flew as copilot is a copilot
who once was a captain.

It's best to keep the pointed end going forward as much as possible.

If an earthquake suddenly opened a fissure in a runway that caused an
accident, the FAA would find a way to blame it on pilot error.

Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwind.

A thunderstorm is never as bad on the inside as it appears on the outside.
It's worse.

It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation. You start with a large fortune.

A male pilot is a confused soul who talks about women when he's flying, and
about flying when he's with a woman.

A fool and his money are soon flying more airplane than he can handle.

The last thing every pilot does before leaving the aircraft after making a
gear up landing is to put the gear selection lever in the 'down' position.

Try to keep the number of your landings equal to the number of your takeoffs.

Takeoff's are optional. Landings are mandatory.

You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

The difference between a fighter pilot & a pig? A pig doesn't sit at a bar
until 0300 waiting to pick up a fighter pilot.