Still waiting for the ticket. But been drooling for one since they started putting metal detectors in.
I won't submit to big brother, so no commercial flying for me. Besides how do you tell what the pilot had to drink, or even if he can handle an emergency. Nope, if I go down it is my fault and I will live with it or not. Plus I have never stolen or lost my luggage. Would love to have a jet, the gulf stream was a blast to fly, like going from a pacer to a Lamborghini. Helicopters are out for me, just don't have the knack for it I guess, and don't have the time and money to just force myself to get it. SHTF I could get off ground and away, but might be pretty messy on landing. Although with these computer fly by wire systems they have now who knows. They are dumbing down the flight systems for the worst instead of training pilots for the best. Just look at the space shuttle, the computer kept compensating for the wing drag from the tiles missing till it couldn't anymore. It should have been blaring warnings something was wrong from the get go instead of just making the thing fly straight hiding the problem. Wouldn't shock me a college kid wrote the software for his first job.
I have never look at how things should work, always wonder what happens if it doesn't. First thought to me on 9/11 is just repel down the side to get out, 1000ft run down the face what a rush that would be. I used to be teased because I had a rope and d-rings when I worked on the 15th floor, never needed them but I had them and a plan. Helped when I found myself on two wheels in car, when I had to do a 180 on a narrow street to maintain control. Gets expensive having to trash equipment so you can practice, but after you are dead it is to late to complain you didn't practice.
Blowing out my rear window to check on deflection of bullet was worth it, cost me a power antenna from the skip but now I know to use the hinge and latch plate to remove the window quickly. In three decades i've only had one chance to try my barricade evasion tactic and they got out of the way, but I am prepared for it if needed. Good reason to OC on a bike, if you are thrown from it you can draw while flying through the air a lot easier. I think I can take down a helicopter, can't test the system on one, but at least I have planned for the need since waco so I have a fighting chance. Faster aircraft still have me stumped, things that will work are illegal so it is a catch 22. Surprise might help as they will never plan for private citizens being able to retaliate, but the best methods would put me on the wrong side of the law, but technology has ways of making options given time.
Have a couple of ideas for my pistol design that would not work for mass production, but one off manufacturing where quality doesn't need to be sacrificed will be interesting for SD. Never thought the world ending would be so liberating, and even if it doesn't I won't need to care either way. To be able to make a sheet of plywood from a log of wood, or a car from scraps of metal, your own electricity, or building your own pistol, ammo, powder, and primers from scratch. The 1911 was made 100 years ago, there is no reason you can't make one today with all our advances and knowledge. Maybe a hybrid composit is out, but I can live with a steel frame, and if my
propellants aren't the cleanest, I can replace worn parts. Who knows in a few years I might be the only one with powder that doesn't have a shelf life, and won't care a bit about it. They tricked me with the freon ban, never again.
Judges can only lock you up, there is no death penalty for not breaking the law. I don't mind if he throws me out of the court room and deny me my day in court. No trial, No conviction, works for me. I don't know what is going on, used to get a ticket every few weeks for not breaking the law. I really miss laughing at the excuses people use. Junkyards and court rooms, people tell me i'm like a kid in a candy store in both.
