Re: OT: Personal aircraft, vertical takeoff and landing

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>> >> >> >> Sailing - The fine art of getting wet and becoming ill, while going >> >> nowhere slowly at great expense (equivalent to standing in a cold >> >> shower, fully clothed, throwing up, and tearing up $100 bills, while >> >> a bunch of other people watch you). >> > >> > You are thinking of power boats. In a kayak you have to paddle as >> > well! >> > >> > Rick C. >> >> And it's cold. You can't have your kayak and heat it. > > No, you wear a wet or dry suit and then the problem becomes cooling. > But that's an easy one, rotary cooling. We also call that rolling. >

All that may be true but you seem to have missed the (old) joke reference to the phrase; "You can't have your cake and eat it." :-)

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Johnny B Good
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Johnny B Good
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Which was the punch-line to a long story (one of many) told by Frank Muir and Denis Norden in the BBC radio programme "My Word". (IIRC the kayayk was, improbably, crewed by Ab, Abdul and Abdullah.)

Mike.

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Mike Coon

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