Those require very specialised training to fly. Something like a Hind may be a rather easier conversion.
We should buy him an all expenses paid trip to Wanaka, New Zealand where he can have fun in a dual control P51 Mustang.
Hey, it’s the thought that counts right? And we’re thinking about getting you this really cool stuff.
Mental note: Never fly too close to Johnny L.A. when the doors are off, too!!!
Johnny, didn’t you have a thing for old jeeps, too? Seems to me, back in the day, we traded pictures of old jeeps we had once had.
If so - my gift is a chance to go racing around the dunes in the desert, a laRat Patrol-style. You drive, and I’ll man the 50-cal. on the back, and assuming I haven’t shot holes in our own radiator, we’ll trade off now and then.
Edit: Great shot of jeeps jumping the top of the dunes at about 3:45, too. If you’ve got the 50-cal then, hang on tight!!!
That reminds me of when I used to do joyrides in a Pitts Special. I’d taken a young boy, maybe 8 years old, up for 15 minutes of hair raising aerobatics. As we were rolling out after landing he said, “wow, awesome, that was the best thing I’ve ever done with my clothes on.” :eek:
Hey, here’s something cheap, how about someone designs a Straight Dope Message Board patch in the style of a squadron patch and he can sew it on to one of his flying jackets.
Wanaka is a beautiful spot, but he can fly the Collings Foundation Mustangwhen the Wings of Freedom Tour is in his area later this month (Everett on the 23rd-25th, Seattle on the 25th-28th).
Indeed. I started The CJ2A Page. The guy I gave it to kept the format I started with (which I’d ‘borrowed’ from The CJ3B Page since I thought it would be nice to have similar pages). I had to sell my CJ2A several years ago. I wish I still had it, but this is not the climate for it and I don’t have a garage. I’m sure it’s much happier in San Diego.
You did a nice job on it, too. I found my jeep still listed there.
Is it today? Happy Birthday!
Yep, it was today yesterday! Thanks! 
Well then, Happy Flag day today. My birthday is 10 days from today, but no one mention it, please, I’m so old they’ve run out of numbers. The fire department took my candles. Being over the hill, I’ve picked up so much speed I’m invisible.
Thanks, I’ll be here all week… Try the veal. 
What I actually got for my birthday:
My friend who just graduated nursing school, and with whom I spent the weekend so I could attend her pinning ceremony (incidentally, the ceremony was a Hawaiian-dress potluck – so she was pinned and lei’ed in the same afternoon) gave me an ‘antique’ teapot. She knows I like tea. I have three other pots I use, and one that I don’t. I’ll be sure to use this one when she visits. 
Alas, nobody bought me a helicopter. Not even a Mini-500, which I don’t care if it’s a death trap!