The wife of my youth was perplexed this morning over the news about hair gel explosives and potential homicide bombers. Her question, "How am I going to keep your hair under control?" She takes a personal interest in my appearance. Near the top of the list is hair.The little red "uh-oh" light is flashing... I have a funny feeling that a crew cut is in my future.
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You won't need a crew cut if you use that hair gel. I can remember seeing Walter Mondale, on the back of a speedboat, when he was running for President. Everyone else's hair was blowing in the breeze, wrapping across their faces but not his. Nary a lock twitched during the journey. I think it was hard enough to qualify as an industrial safety helmet.
I've always wanted a crew cut, but while all my coworkers can get away with shaved heads or crew cuts, it would be weird and unprofesional if I showed up shorn. So I look windblown all day.
Dave, most of my male workmates and friends would be delighted if they had enough hair to get a crew cut, let alone use gel!
Thanks for your delightful subtle humour at an otherwise very tense time in the world today. :-)
So, even the bags of the flight crew are searched for potentially lethal bottles of water and hair gel? So they trust you with a 60 million dollar, but not to control your hair...
Have you seen "Something about Mary".
At this dangerous time, there should be MORE people in cockpit, not a crew cut.
....Something about Mary!... hahahah don't give them any ideas, that stuff will be banned next!
Hey Dave,
Today as I ran past DCA, I noticed several U.S. Airways jets (the smaller ones) parked just ten feet from the public parking lot. One had the door open and the stairs up to it for hours. The only thing separating the public from these jets was a eight-foot chain link fence.
What stops a group of armed and trained terrorists from jumping the fence and stealing the empty aircraft, going airborne and crashing it into the White House or Capital just two miles away. The F-16s wouldn't even have time to react.
Why bother with a full plane and heavy security when you can grab an empty plane with no security.
anon, I guess that scenario could happen, if all the ducks were lined up. It is highly unlikely that a terrorist crew could get into a cold, dark aircraft; power it up, start the engines, get the systems on-line, set the flaps correctly, taxi past the airport security alerted by the tower, then make a successful take-off. If they were a working airline crew for some middle eastern airline, then it might be a possibility. Remember, the hijackers of 9-11 infamy took over aircraft in cruise configuration, with no need to change anything except altitude.
Starting a jet is hard work and they would have a hard time pushing back from the gate not to metion getting the FMC going the apu off, the flaps set ect, ect, ect.
The bigest porobelm i see is fear.
David...they may trust the crew with a $60million plane but given that one of the English Muslim choir boys detained in England was a Heathrow airport employee, it'd probably be prudent to ban the substances in crew baggage too. Very sad but also very true.
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