I guess to play it by the rules, we oughta humor that little ol' light. faint chuckle, long pause, as if to say, I'm not even sure all this is really worth going into-still, it may amuse you."But. I don't believe that little ol' red light knows what it's talkin' about-I believe it's that little ol' red light that iddn' workin' right". We've got a little ol' red light up here on the control panel that's tryin' to tell us that the landin' gears're not. the voice that tells you (on a flight from Phoenix preparing for its final approach into Kennedy Airport, New York, just after dawn): "Now, folks, uh. the voice that tells you, as the airliner is caught in thunderheads and goes bolting up and down a thousand feet at a single gulp, to check your seat belts because "it might get a little choppy". with a particular drawl, a particular folksiness, a particular down-home calmness that is so exaggerated it begins to parody itself (nevertheless!-it's reassuring). "Anyone who travels very much on airlines in the United States soon gets to know the voice of the airline ing over the intercom. In his 1979 book The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe begins Chapter 3 - titled "Yeager" - with this extended observation: The first human to break the sound barrier and live to tell about it, legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager, died Monday at age 97.
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