Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 12:42:41 -0800
Subject: Heard on the air - rec.aviation.misc #500

In article <NILES.92Nov5194226@pizzicato.parc.xerox.com>, niles@parc.xerox.com (Les Niles) writes:
|> This morning at San Jose:
|> 
|>   SJC tower: American 269, runway 30 left, cleared for takeoff.
|> 
|>   American 269: Cleared for takeoff, 269.
|> 
|>   Tower: American 269, do you have that polar bear in sight at 12 o'clock?
|> 
|>   AA269: We thought it was a white elephant.
|> 
|>   Tower: No, if you look closely you'll see it's a polar bear.
|> 
|>   AA269: Most of us pilots are blind anyway.
|> 
|>   Tower: You just gotta adjust the trifocals.
|> 
|> The punch line is that there really *was* a polar bear.
|> It was a hot air balloon, a mile or two southwest of the field, having
|> trouble finding a landing site.  The tower kept calling it as traffic for
|> at least half an hour.  
|> 
|>   -les  niles@parc.xerox.com
|>         Skylane N2461G