On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 03:56:34 GMT, griffin wrote:

>Welp, I finally just finished reading all of these posts and three things
>have become clear:
>
>1. I have no idea what any of you are talking about and I'm now deathly
>afraid of flying in a small aircraft any higher than cornstalk.
>
>2. I'm deathly afraid of driving my carburated Jeep in the -30 degree
>weather here this winter for fear of my throttle sticking, my carb freezing,
>propane exploding, or the slight possibility of some small aircraft
>reversing G's in a float bowl and diving into my Jeep.
>
>3. I have no idea which of you, Ted or Bill, is right ...but I do know that
>Bill has helped me several times and his input is always positive and
>almost, if not always, correct ...so I see no reason to pick on him.
>
>Now, with that said, I'm going to try and erase everything I've just read
>from my brain before I begin to fear all things relating to gases and
>carburated engines.

LOL
Well, at least I was talking about early WW2 aircraft. I'm sure 4
decades have improved things immensely, although my current Lycoming
powered Worrier doesn't stand up as an example of those improvements.

;-)

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GW