$100 fine for landing in Manhattan. (1956)

[exncsurfer]

Interesting story, pretty unbelievable:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2...n-uptown-street-thats-where-the-bar-was/?_r=2

He swiped a plane and landed it on a NYC street, probably intoxicated, got a $100 fine. What would they do to this guy today.

 

[Sac Arrow]

That was a lot of money back then.

 

[Zeldman]

Those crazy young men and their flying machines....

Because a good story never starts with.... "Hold my salad".....

 

[cowman]

I wonder why we became so uptight since those days... and don't say 9/11, it started before that.

 

[RJM62]

That was a lot of money back then.

$882.56, to be exact.

Rich

 

[Sac Arrow]

There we go, see.

 

[luvflyin]

What a despicable show of total disregard for others and their safety. Who does he think he is, Mr. "I'm to cool for the rules." Shameful. That being said, I have a new Hero.

 

[exncsurfer]

Yea, well, still, you think you'd get out of that with $882.56 now?

 

[Joshuajayg]

I would have loved to buy him a beer.

 

[Timbeck2]

Or a salad.

 

[Joshuajayg]

Or a salad.

No, he would need another ten beers to see what the next hairbrained idea would be.

 

[SkyDog58]

Or a salad.

Only if it is a large Cobb Salad smothered in blue cheese dressing with a few beers to wash it down.

 

[flyingriki]

How about the kid that landed near Red Square? Not as tight but certainly as gutsy!

 

[denverpilot]

How about the kid that landed near Red Square? Not as tight but certainly as gutsy!

Supposedly he missed dying from a power line only because they had pulled it down for maintenance/replacement. Or so I've heard.

 

[Mason]

I wonder if he took the Rusty pilot course first.

 

[Skip Miller]

I wonder if he took the Rusty pilot course first.

I see what you did there!

 

[Acrodustertoo]

I wonder why we became so uptight since those days... and don't say 9/11, it started before that.

i always say that it was October 1987, the Minnesota Twins won the World Series.

 

[denverpilot]

KMHK ?