It's the lot of the business or charter pilot -- you often
aren't ready to go at the time you filed on your flight plan.
Personal pilots, too, may be affected by passenger schedules or
other delays.
Nickname for the part of some Approach Light Systems consisting of
sequenced flashing lights, called "strobes" or the "rabbit," that
look like a ball of light moving rapidly toward the runway.
"I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to
vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery
crash with the vomit hovering over me."
Source: Actor William Shatner -- aka James T.
Kirk -- giving his reasons for declining the free trip into space
offered by Virgin Galactic onboard its first passenger-carrying
suborbital trip.
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