June 6th Flying the SNJ

Disclaimer: This page was not created at work, nor at work computers, nor is by any means in any way supposed to create money. It is also not work related besides the fact that most of the following events happened right across the street at the VA Tech airport. I hereby also want to warn anyone at work or with a week heart not to watch this webspace since I can not be hold accountable for any work lost or any other problems that might occur through too much laughing while viewing this webspace.

Now having this "disclaimer" out of the way, let me tell you about this page. First of all it's nothing related to a web-page it has gotten no fancy menus, no organized Web lay-out nor a links section, but is a little something I throw together last night about June 6th. To navigate click the shortcuts on the main page, those are easily identified by the -><- and by the different color. Just click on those and you will be transferred to a new page. To navigate back, either press the back-button on the page, or if non exist,s the Back Button on your browser, remember this site just vaguely classifies right now as a webpage.Now back to June 6th, D-Day, the day when I, Ludwig Gantner, set foot on the VA Tech airport and started my first and until fall last flying lessons in a World War II SNJ Fighter WarBird(that's an aircraft).

June 6th, is also exactly to the day, 2 years, 1 week and 3 days after I signed a pact with the most evil of Organizations, known to men, as SunCom. I hereby mean no disrespect to this company and it's employees except for the ones that signed and created my sell-phone contract and caused me 3 month of agony while quarrelling about the fine print. I hereby also thank the President of SunCom for giving me an unbelievable good deal, which in no way had anything to do with me staying with your company. :)

Now considering the comlexity of the following story,to keep things simple in coming paragraphs, all different dates for events will be listed as June 6th, 2004.

June 6th 2004, a day that will live in infamy for generations to come or not. The day when I sat off from my homebase:

->The USS RB-14<- to make a long and agonizing journey of hundreds of miles to the VA Tech airport(for all that don't know, it's across the street). Finally there, on this so called day of infamy, the Japanese attacked(no offense ment to any Japanese, but you did attack...), perfectly on schedule, but since we were not pepared, I ordered them a couple of pizza's, Dominos of course. Here is a ->portait<- of these unimaginable powerfulweapons, as they will go by in History.

Now delaying this sneek-attack through un-canned and never before seen skill we had time to make prepariations. So let's take a look at ->my aicraft<-.

Now it was time for Take-Off. Ok, not yet, let's first meet my ->flight instructor Ott Clement<-. Well he did give me some good advice, the one standing out in my mind is never to "Drink and Drive" our in our case never to ->"Drink and Fly"<-.

Let's go back to the famous date of June 6th, 2004, an UFO was sighted, cycling over the New River Valley creating a crop-circle, but not to be boring, of a different kind. I call it an ACC or air-crop-circle, patent still pending. Apparently physicists and astronomers and other kinds of furtune tellers have come together to create a ->star-map<- to retrace the origin of the UFO's that created this ACC.

Well let's take a look at the counter for my webpage, if anyone's still interested.

Hmm..not bad, but let's help it a bit... ...now that's better.

Ok, now enough joking around. Back to the SNJ and me flying it. ->Here<- you can see the inside. Now we're familiar with the cockpit and the controlls, so let's start the rotor. -> Start <-

->We're airborne!<-

Well it's time to finish up, so let's see what else we have to do. Click on the ->Link<-.

I think now it's time for some more serious discussion, so the first topic I want to lay my hands on is ->Money<-. Another problem I want to touch on are computer virii. I.e. Do not, I repeat do not click this ->Link<-. Well, I appreciate you not clicking the link so let's get to the last topics before our Wrap-Up. Since we all had a very stressful and intense time, I created a little ->funpage<- And now the last point is something that I want to call the ->"ABC's of Achievement", something that I found and modified to fit this post.

Now it's time for the ->"Wrap-UP"<-. I appreciate everybody who stayed with me to the end and I would appreciate if you let me know what you think about this site. I might even update it to a real fancy looking Webpage...and as answer to the last question, please feel free to share this "link" with anyone you feel appropriate.

-Ludwig Gantner signing off-