Re: Got lucky at the drive thru

On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 19:01:21 -0400, Dave Smith
<adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2025-04-12 6:10 p.m., Mike Duffy wrote:

On 2025-04-12, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
 

(re: 'Day of the Triffids')

 

The 1963 film, the 1981 BBC series, or the 2009 BBC series?

 
The 1981 series, although I seem to recall it as one movie.
Probably I binge-watched it.
 
The funniest part for me was the military officer saying
how many helicopters he crashed learning how to fly one,
presumably with no instructor or simulator, &c.
 

Back in those days planes were relatively cheap. I have been reading a
number of books about WW II and air force stuff lately and recently came
across a factoid that in WWII there were more training deaths in
training and in accidents than in combat.
>
On a related note.. my father did 18 1/2 operational flights.

The half flight's intriguing. I hope that's not a flight he didn't
return from.

Due to him
having had contact with thee Danish Resistance he was not allowed to go
on operational flight over Europe so he spent some time as an instructor
at a conversion unit in England and was then sent back to Canada to work
at a operational training unit.  One of his best friends as killed in a
training accident there.  One of the guys in this unit was Robert
Cloutier who ended up playing Relic in The Beachcombers.  I remember him
staying with us for a while and how he helped my father sod the lawn in
our new house. My mother later commented on being amazed at him being
able to help because he had been in a crash and had broken half the
bones in his body and spent about a year in hospital.

First he didn't want to help but then he thought "Oh, sod it!"

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Bruce
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