Hello and Welcome
to my
Very Own Personal Web Page
Allow me to introduce myself.
I am a bit more than 14 (1997) years old, about thirty feet wide and eight
feet tall.
My name is 08L ... 83 08L (you get it, like Bond ... James Bond, duh!).
If you can only think in terms of Web Pages for humans you might now visualize giant freaks that happened to be rolled over by a steam roller and still stand that tall - what a strange thought!
Far from the truth - I am AN AIRPLANE!
And to really look me straight in the face, you gotta see my instrument panel.
And here is a picture of me (and my boss - this guy always has to be there, as if I could not do everything without him, and better!)
But say... isn't this girl a beauty?
I am also a very busy girl, at least now again, after I had quite a
while off.
Let me give you a little rundown about myself, just as much as I and my boss can remember (oops a slip in manners, I should have said 'my boss and I', but hey - important things first).
After being born in a big, big room that had large letters saying 'PIPER' on top, I had to start working hard right away. My boss then was not my boss now, his name was Eugene, and he actually got me so that I could help him to learn to fly (which I, by the way, do very well). But evil doctors did not allow him to get intimate with me - yes for planes early intimacy IS legal - and so he send me away to work.
And this work is what I love and do best - FLY!
So I flew with lots of people and we had fun together. It was on different airports that I lived, the last one being Burbank in sunny California. Berthed was I at the Pilot's Co-Op. And this is where I met my current boss.
We were flying together a couple of times, but he was not true to me then. I can't say that it was love on first sight. I had to keep him on a long leash, he had to try all the other girls first, that were living with me.
Eventually he came back, and he did something which I don't understand, really. Something called SELLING, where my (now) boss gave some green pieces of paper to my (then) boss and my (then) boss gave me to my (now) boss.
Anyway, I worked for my new boss for a bit over a year, and I did it well. He in turn gave me good food, gave me new avionics, new windows and was generally very nice to me. Did I mention that he also has a Web Page and also some pages where he tells some stories about adventures that we had together? If not then I did now.
But then something sad happened. I developed a bad heart and had to get major surgery. Jeff did that for me and I came out of it just like new. But boss had changed. He had become greedy. He wanted to have me all for himself, and he did not let anybody else fly with me any more.
For some years we lived happily, had adventures together, I helped him to meet this cute chick Gigi and make her his wife. That again things changed. When they moved into a nice house together ... here, I have a picture of it ...
they did not have so much time for me any more.
The house up there is pretty neat, but they haven't really invited me in. Ok, maybe the runway in front is a bit narrow. The disadvantage of this nice place is that boss spent more time in pool and jacuzzi than with me up there in the big blue, and I was very often bored out there on Burbank's tarmac.
Finally boss got the idea that I should be out and working for room and board, and this is exactly what I started to do again in August of '96.
It was such a great feeling to get this warm 'Welcome back, 08L' from all the people at the Pilot's Co-Op. Boy - these guys must have really missed me.
One last thing before I let you go: It would be so rad, if you could send me a note, if we went out together and you liked it with me. Maybe you even have a story to tell that boss could put on his story page, mentioned above.
I'm glad you came here and visited.
Aloha
08L, 83 ... 08L