“Remorseful am I, exceedingly with regard to my behavior dilatory. Repentant am I to readership my, for providing not literary sustenance new to scintillate minds your.”

As written above in “Yoda” code, I extend my sincerest apology for this period of silence. I have written so much revelatory disclosure over the past few weeks that I have chosen to “lay low” to determine if THEY are seeking after me for retaliatory purposes. I believe for the short term I am safe and thus have chosen to break this brief silence. I have resurfaced due to a recent event. An event THEY have said could never happen, but it did.

Well, today I have determined to “set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven” to answer the mystery of “The passing of planes”

Now I am not talking about some type of “event where a person is in dispose” as some might joke. No, I am saying in fact that a few weeks ago while driving my car I literally overtook and passed a small plane as it flew in front of me and then above me and then behind me. It was pulling one of those great big advertising banners and I just passed it by. Zippy, Zoomy.

Why I must have been goin nigh on to 54 miles per hour. My heart was a racin. My head was poundin. My one hair was blowing straight back. My gums were a flappin. I could hardly hold on to the steerin wheel cause of the g-force pushin me back. I had to take my teeth out cause I got a big ole bug stuck in them while I was lookin out the window.

It was incredible. It was cathartic. I could see myself goin out in a blaze of glory. There were parts fallin from my car as I hurtled forward. I thought it was going to disintegrate. My life passed before me. "This is it,"  I thought. But, actually it was just flatulence. Dang! At my age it's hard to tell whether you're passin gas or passin on. They're almost identical.

Anyway, so you get the picture right? Gosh, the things a fella’s gotta explain to assure his readership gets the picture, whew.

Anyway, now THEY say (smirk) (smirk), “Okay, humor the old guy. He’s had one too many Dr. Peppers again.” But I tell you, I literally overtook and passed a plane while driving down the highway. YES, no longer can it be said that THEY know everything because obviously THEY don’t.

THEY said it could never happen. But it did and in that very moment all the basic deceptive tenets THEY built their reign upon were shaken.

However, to my chagrin I have learned that since that time, THEY told NOBODY they could believe me but if NOBODY believes me, then nobody else, besides NOBODY, will believe me. DO you see the predicament.

Thwarted again! How do THEY do it? NOBODY knows!

I’m getting a headache.

See the related "History of They"

-- Modified on 11/27/2007 4:13:02 PM

It looks like you were driving into a strong headwind.  If a light aircraft is flying into a strong headwind, it will be flying its normal airspeed, maybe 85 mph (or less).

Because of the wind, which could be 40 mph or more, his ground speed would be his airspeed minus the wind speed.  85mph minus 40mph equals 45mph.

Depending on the aircraft and the wind speed, a light aircraft flying into the wind could have a negative ground speed.  He could actually appear to fly backwards in relation to the ground.

Given the right circumstances, unusual things do happen.