Re: [HOE] The Baron O' The Sky!!

["Jeff Shoffner" <shoffner@esper.com>]

>Granted that makes him a more likely canidate(sp?) but remember that the
>criteria for a saint is that they fought the Reckoning. Indeed perhaps a
>pilot who fought in the wat mightn't be the best canidate at all. One of
the
>avaiation pioneers of yesteryear might actually be better. Amelia (I think
>I've got it right) Lockhart for example. See, I wasn't toally kidding when
I
>suggested (Sir)Charles Kingsford-Smith.
>
>Alex (Sorry 'bout the misleading title)



I think you mean Amelia Earhardt.  As for why the sainthood, true, but
Werner could've always fought the "Dead From Above."  :-)

[lightbulb turning on]

Ah-HAH!!!!  Patron Saint of Flyers is the B-17 bomber pilot from Heavy
Metal!!!!  Don't know his name, but I got the orignal cel artwork on my
wall.  If you're not familiar with the story from Heavy Metal, a group of
bombers are on a bombing run in the Pacific (which is totally untrue as the
B-17s were in Europe while the B-25s & 26s were in the Pacific, but I
digress) when a glowing rock slams into our plane, causing the dead crew to
come alive & kill the remaining crew.  The pilot is the only one to abandon
the plane, but lands on an island surrounded by skeletons of downed planes,
& all of their dead crew come out to kill him....

Jeff S