What Happened to DouglasBader

He is as active, and condescending on the AOPA Forum as he was here. :D
 
He died in 1982.
 
Matthew said:
"DouglasBader has not made any friends yet"
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It's a direct relation to aviation experience. I think you'll find the people with the least amount of friends have the greatest amount of aviation knowledge. :D
 
I dunno. I think he, and some others, have more knowledge in their little fingers than I ever will. Folks that get that much experience, and that variety of experience, don't get that far without certain Type A traits.
 
Jaybird180 said:
This guy:

http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/member.php?u=11371

I was reading an old thread and he was the last poster in the thread, but it wasn't his last.

He was fun - taking the contrary opinion and all...
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Don't worry, he's alive and miserable over on the AOPA forums. Trolling and making people angry seems to be a hobby for him. He's been over there long enough now that most everyone has sort of figured him out and deal with him in their own way. Some treat him as some sort of aviation prophet and others see him as a joke. The moderators over there give him a wide berth to belittle others because I guess he fits the mold and stereo type of the Red Board, a bunch of cranky old men.

The sad thing about DB is, he does have a lot of knowledge and he does have some interesting stories. He would be awesome if he could just restrain himself from being an internet trolling jack ass. Sadly, that's the whole reason he posts.
 
Dav8or said:
......he does have a lot of knowledge and he does have some interesting stories. He would be awesome if he could just restrain himself from being an internet trolling jack ass. Sadly, that's the whole reason he posts.
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He must have stayed at Holiday Inn Express last night then.
 
Yeah he did have some stories. Seems like he flew everything in the book. I was waiting for him to say "well when I was flying the Concorde..."
 
DB reminds me of some of the crusty old pilots around here. They have or have had a friend that has done just about everything in an airplane one could imagine. Some of their friends didn't make it though ...

Needless to say, I do tend to read what DB has to say. My only critique is that he needs to just walk away at times. There is the E-Series "super guru" over on BeechTalk. Same thing: he writes something, you read it. The only difference is if you act dumb (or if he just doesn't like what you have to say) - he ignores you.
 
Velocity173 said:
It's a direct relation to aviation experience. I think you'll find the people with the least amount of friends have the greatest amount of aviation knowledge. :D
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If this is true, then I should be an aviation god. :D
 
What Happened to DouglasBader
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Short answer: who cares?

If you want to experience his rabid abuse then you can visit the red board. I'm sure you'll get a gut-full of him quite quickly. I put any thread that he posts in on ignore pretty quickly because they always devolve into a pizzing contest quite quickly.
 
MikeELP said:
DB is kinda like this.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkZzLUvuLLU

:D

Mike
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Kind of. The differences being I have come to believe that many of his stories are likely authentic and also he would have started an argument with the guy asking the questions after question two. By response three, or so, that other guy would have gotten up and left.
 
Velocity173 said:
It's a direct relation to aviation experience. I think you'll find the people with the least amount of friends have the greatest amount of aviation knowledge. :D
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I should be a freaken aviation genius then.
 
There is something a bit unseemly to ragging on a guy who hasn't posted in two years.

Regardless of what you think of him, talking behind his back is less than appropriate.

I'm sure you can find him on the red board if you want.
 
MAKG1 said:
There is something a bit unseemly to ragging on a guy who hasn't posted in two years.

Regardless of what you think of him, talking behind his back is less than appropriate.

I'm sure you can find him on the red board if you want.
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I don't see anyone here "ragging" on him. Just wondering where he went. It appears he was worried about getting sued by some POA member.

Seriously, I enjoyed his input to POA. Didn't think he used the best tact at times but plenty of other people here are pretty blunt in their comments.
 
MAKG1 said:
There is something a bit unseemly to ragging on a guy who hasn't posted in two years.

Regardless of what you think of him, talking behind his back is less than appropriate.

I'm sure you can find him on the red board if you want.
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Seriously, do you think he would even care? People do tell him he's an ass on the forums frequently. He never considers an opposing view and he really doesn't care what people think.
 
Dav8or said:
Seriously, do you think he would even care? People do tell him he's an ass on the forums frequently. He never considers an opposing view and he really doesn't care what people think.
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Doesn't change a dang thing.

Still bad form.
 
MAKG1 said:
There is something a bit unseemly to ragging on a guy who hasn't posted in two years.

Regardless of what you think of him, talking behind his back is less than appropriate.
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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: You're funny. Bader is just another example of someone reaping what they sowed.
 
IMHO, one Douglas Bader lost his legs and remained a superb pilot while different one lost his marbles and became a cranky old man.:D

I recall one thread on the Red Board where he ragged on me about my meager flying experience when I mentioned getting my Tail Wheel endorsement and I replied about my experience in F-14's at Miramar NAS and he never answered. Don't know why that was. :wink2:

Cheers
 
MikeELP said:
Please enlighten me as to how you can talk behind someone's back on an open internet forum. :dunno:

Just asking.

Mike
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He's not here.

You're presuming he's aware of it. Maybe he is and maybe he isn't.

It's still gossip, and it's still not a good character trait. Usenet has been (nearly) dead for almost two decades.

How would you react to a thread on some other random board that people use to say YOU were a jerk?

Only a coward would do so where he can't defend himself. Presuming he doesn't want to is not your decision.
 
Is Douglas Bader this person's real name? I met the WW2 legless ace Douglas Bader many years ago in a meeting when he worked for the UK Department of Transport and Civil Aviation.
 
creweite said:
Is Douglas Bader this person's real name? I met the WW2 legless ace Douglas Bader many years ago in a meeting when he worked for the UK Department of Transport and Civil Aviation.
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I really doubt it, but it might be.

There are a whole bunch of Charles Taylors out there, for instance. Only one of them is a brutal former dictator. Another is much more interesting to aviation.
 
creweite said:
Is Douglas Bader this person's real name? I met the WW2 legless ace Douglas Bader many years ago in a meeting when he worked for the UK Department of Transport and Civil Aviation.
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MAKG1 said:
I really doubt it, but it might be.

There are a whole bunch of Charles Taylors out there, for instance. Only one of them is a brutal former dictator. Another is much more interesting to aviation.
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If you do a search of his posts, it's fairly clear that he's younger than WWII vintage, actively flies or did at the time, and is from the U.S.
 
MAKG1 said:
I really doubt it, but it might be.



There are a whole bunch of Charles Taylors out there, for instance. Only one of them is a brutal former dictator. Another is much more interesting to aviation.
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True. I currently work with an Ed Swearingen.....and though he is a pilot, he isn't the aviation pioneer who recently flew west.
 
MAKG1 said:
So? Do it to his face then. Lots of people have.

I make no complaint about the negative post. Only that it's in the third person.
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So it's your place to tell other folks what to do?
 
Clark1961 said:
So it's your place to tell other folks what to do?
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It's his place to express his opinion, which he's doing.

It's our place to decide whether we agree with his opinion, and to express our agreement or disagreement if we choose to do so.
 
MAKG1 said:
There is something a bit unseemly to ragging on a guy who hasn't posted in two years.

Regardless of what you think of him, talking behind his back is less than appropriate.

I'm sure you can find him on the red board if you want.
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I agree, this is tacky. The OP asked "What happened to him?" not "What's wrong with him?" Question answered, let's move on.

dtuuri
 
MAKG1 said:
He's not here.

You're presuming he's aware of it. Maybe he is and maybe he isn't.

It's still gossip, and it's still not a good character trait. Usenet has been (nearly) dead for almost two decades.

How would you react to a thread on some other random board that people use to say YOU were a jerk?

Only a coward would do so where he can't defend himself. Presuming he doesn't want to is not your decision.
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You may have a point, I'm not sure. However, we don't actually know whether he's been reading this thread or not. If you're really concerned about the possibility of his not knowing what people are saying about him, it might be more effective to inform him of the conversation yourself, because trying to get other Internet posters to modify their behavior rarely works.
 
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