Then or Than

Then or Than... rather confusing.

I once was riding jump seat in a Lear 23 from Atlanta to Oklahoma City... What a rocket... or the  nearest to one I will ever be... 45,000'  It can reach the 50,000 ' plus mark, Very Sharp looking as well  for being made in the early 60's  still has the  Sexy looks.....  we were hitting up on the Oxygen and  delivering widgets for G.M. or something.... a big rush, rush, was on, can't stop the assembly line  that is costly.

Upon landing the Pilot in command says to the Co- Pilot... hey you better get on the brakes... the Co -Pilot says I am standing on them and nothing is happening.....

The P.I.C. with the speed of a cat... pulled a panel cover off and pulled a ring on a nitrogen bottle to blow the brakes on... we came to a  chattering halt... a fair way down the runway down at the other end... hydraulic fluid was dripping off the inboard trailing edge of the right wing red..... I guess you never know when the brakes may fail  no reverse buckets or hush kit's rather loud..........a fading era turning illegal this Christmas, due to noise restrictions, ironic it can still out perform today's state of the art Private Jets.

Charmed like so many things........ and. to whom do we thank?

I was thinking of the idea of conceptualizing a view point... and the idea occur'd to me...
If different then your own... maybe one could still show some respect, but up to what point?

Or Pull the ring and blow the brakes before we trundle off the end of the runway and burst into a ball of flame,  and getting all crunchy....Thank you for your quick response time, I was still thinking.......... scratching my whiskers as was the Co Pilot.

I am kind of glad the Captain took action...  better then the potential outcome, of  my just sitting there in the jump seat.. watching the evening pass.

What a lovely Toy an Old Lear 23 would be...

It could take one anywhere very quickly.

On another occasion I was working the Ramp.. for an Aviation Company with  a teenage  fellow employee named Evander Hollyfield... A Lear 24 or 25 Taxied up and this Drunk Cowboy Oil Man 10 gallon hat and all   from Texas got out of the Air Plane.. and Pissed right there in front of God and everybody  on the ramp.. ...   I guess when you have his kind of money , you can do whatever the Hell you want............ or maybe he just really had to go.  Of course a homeless man would go to Jail for indecent exposure and get put on a sexual predator list...

See how it goes?

The Stars in the Heavens are aligned in this moment just so..................

Then or Than.