Gary Edwards wrote:
>
> Gregg Iverson wrote:
>
> > One of my student's parents used to work for the State of Maryland. He
> > once told me that they flew over the state (I think in a Leer Jet)
>
> They only used the Leer Jet when the day's schedule included overflights of
> the Happy Bottoms Nudist Camp!
Ha! Good one.
Otherwise, it's Learjet, after Bill Lear, a
> hell of an engineer and entrepreneur, who conceived, but did not design the
> original airplane (a team of Swiss engineers did, based on a Swiss trainer.)
>
> Gary Edwards
>
Yeah, I used to date a gal who did the wiring on the instrument panels
at the Learjet factory in Tucson. You need great dexterity for that job
and she... Ooops, climb back out of the wayback machine, George
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