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Wow, tough call. I guess mine would be the Buddha. But pretty good bet that is in all the people I respect: Philosophers, Warriors, Artisans, Teachers.
 
Table for five (including myself :-)

Benjamin Franklin
James Madison
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Sitting Bull or Sun Tzu (his sum)

This list doesn't necessarily denote admiration (tho mostly it does), but given the mix I think the conversation would be fascinating.

pittspilot - Do you fly a Pitts and perform aerobatics? I have a couple of hours in a Marchetti 260 - nothing fancy. Yoyo's and rolling scissors. Can't imagine pulling 6 negative G's.

Cliff
 
For dinner conversation? Mark Twain.

People smarter than me? Sun-Tzu (I invoke the Star Trek Clause, which means he somehow happens to speak English)

People bigger, stronger and faster than me? Bill Kazmaier

People braver than me? Audie Murphy

I can go on and on.
 
G. Washington, to ask why he started the habit of sending jack booted thugs out to enforce taxes in the Whisky Rebellion and betrayed the Revolution.
As for the hero? Easy Audie Murphy.

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Yeah Cliff, I both fly and teach aerobatics in Pitts, Extras, and decathlons. Mostly high Performance stuff.

The Marchetti is nice, just not the greatest acro mount. You can't tumble it heheheh

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"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...Because it is the quality that guarantees all others"

"If we go on waiting upon events, how much shall we throw away our resources now available for our security"

"Where there is a great amount of free speech, there is always a certain amount of foolish speech"

Winston S. Churchill
 
This should spark some interesting dinner conversations:

John Wayne
Teddy Roosevelt
Sam Colt
John Garand
John Moses Browning
O.F. Winchester
Eliphalet Remington II
Arthur Savage
Lieutenant Evelyn Owens

OR for something completely different ...

Billy Connolly
John Cleese
Robin Williams
Katherine Hepburn
Spencer Tracy
Humphrey Bogart
... oh, and Liz Hurley for me (sigh!)

B
 
I'll have dinner with whoever is going to tell me whos really buried in Grant's tomb!

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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!
 
Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. I want to find out what really happened.

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"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats." H.L. Mencken
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Andrewh:
so many people. All of you have brought up great people, and makes me think. Funny though, I noticed there are no women on the lists. [/quote]

If you want to make it a double date, pair me up with Dorothy Parker and we'lll set Conan Doyle up on a blind date with Dorothy L. Sayers.
 
WRONG! I have chosen Barbara Bush! See my earlier reply. And even elaborated as to why!
;)

DOC

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"Government is not the solution to the problem, Government is the problem!"--Ronald Reagan

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Samual Adams - One of the True Father's of the Revolution.

Jefferson, Madison.

Cal Ripken

Vin Suprynowicz

There are many others too numerous to even think of.



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"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.
In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains
seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all
must be most aware of change in the air - however slight -
lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
--Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
 
The Great One is now going to lay the smackdown on your candy-ass:

Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Elmer Keith
Samuel Clements (Mark Twain)
Sun Tzu

For the alive side of the house:
Jeff Cooper
Richard Marcinko
Vin Suprynowicz

Oh, and how about my dad's dad's dad's dad. I wonder if he looks just like me. Or better yet, all of us at the same table at about the same age. That would really mess the waitress up.

(BTW I'm nicknamed clone, jr. at work by the ESI queen...)

TR
 
Leonardo DaVinci...Sniping and flight
Glen Curtis...Showed the euro elites how to fly.
Chuck Yeager..Warrior and pilot extraordinare
Jacklyn Cochran...Pilot, leader and teacher.
John M. Browning...ultimate tinkerer.
Igor Sikorsky....built em in all shapes n sizes.
Charlie Kaman...."so it's funny lookin, it works"
Burt Rutan..."what do you mean it cant work"
Pancho Barnes...hell of a pilot and ran a cool bar.

Put em all up at Pancho's place and let it happen.

Sam

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Sam I am, grn egs n packin

Nikita Khrushchev predicted confidently in a speech in Bucharest, Rumania on June 19, 1962 that: " The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag...the American people will hoist it themselves."
 
Actually I have had the displeasure of meeting the bitter old man that is Chuck Yeagar. I was really looking forward to meeting him and he was just like I heard he was but did not want to believe, an A-hole.

Don't you hate it when childhood hero's turn out to be anything but hero's. However Bob Hoover is a great pilot, and a good guy who beat the FAA when they came after him.

Mark Twain is a good choice, I love that guy.

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"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...Because it is the quality that guarantees all others"

"If we go on waiting upon events, how much shall we throw away our resources now available for our security"

"Where there is a great amount of free speech, there is always a certain amount of foolish speech"

Winston S. Churchill
 
Yeager choice for deeds, not personality. I concur with your assessment of Bob Hoover, first met him in 61.......Sam
 
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