Saw this this morning... not good.



fyi

Zane...computers are not toys. The Special Olympics poster was funny, but this is going to hurt someone's feelings.

It's all I could drum up for April Fools. Either you have a sense of humor, or ya don't. Of course I love Maules.

Like I said...this is going to hurt someone's feelings...

That's funny, really. It honestly had me going for a second until I started reading it.

Mind if I steal it, put it on the Maule site and sit back and watch?

That's up to you...I think it's obvious enough that it's a joke, but I don't want the Maule Co calling me up.

OK, I'm too stupid, but somebody's got to do it, it needs doing. Zane, would you? or someone else?

I don't know how. Is it easy enough for you top tell me how?

Zane, We have the Friendly Aviation Aphids from the MIDO in the plant now doing our ACSEP inspection now. Of course they also do Maule.
I just slid by and left your "news article" on the table. It had them all going for quite a while. When Clark Walker asked me if it was true. I asked him what was today. Clark is a good sport.

OMG that was funny. I really like the “We know they’re no Cessna 170 in the looks department, but they’re the best hands down.” That is what caught my eye and made me think it might be a joke. And to imply the narrow minded Maule owners are the cause of the company going under. Great job Zane!!!!!!!!!

Zane
As a Maule owner for many years, My Dad had his first one in 1969!
I found the post very very?????
And when I realised the day of which it is ( my DADs 88th birthday)
I took it to him and we both Laughed our Whatevers OFF!!!!
He said they might not be pretty but damn sure a good airplane.
In 1971 he took the wings and engine off after he encountered a pine tree with his wing about 40' up in the tree.
Took him a year to get his medical back and he and my Mom went to Moultre to pick up a brand new M5 $37,000 dollars in 1972.
Thanks for the Smiles with my Dad.
GT

Here's another one.

http://www.aero-news.net/#d

Internet bullying
With the click of a key, bullies are humiliating their peers. What are websites doing to tame this behavior?

By Amanda Paulson

For one Maule owner it was a rumor, circulated via text messaging, that he had made a go around while on a trip to Smiley Creek. He returned to his home field and found nobody would come near him.

For an overweight pilot in California, it was cellphone pictures, taken of him on the sly while he was showering in the public restroom at Johnson Creek and then sent to many of his peers.

And for the owners of the very capable and often under rated aircraft manufactured by Maule Air Inc. of Moultrie, GA. it was a website - backcountrypilot.org - on which vicious gossip and biggoted and threatening remarks grew so rampant that most of the site was affected.

The actions themselves - rumors, threats, gossip, humiliation - are nothing new. But among today's pilots - a generation of instant messengers, always connected, always wired - bullies are starting to move beyond slams and whisper campaigns to e-mail, websites, chat rooms, and text messaging.

While in some ways it's no worse than old-fashioned bullying, cyberbullying has a few idiosyncrasies. Websites and screen names give bullies a mask of anonymity if they wish it, making them difficult to trace.

The pressure for pilots to be always online means bullies can extend their harassment into their victims' homes and hangars.

And the miracle of the Web means that sharing an embarrassing photo or private note - with thousands of people - requires little more than the click of a key.

"It used to be if something happened at your airfield, someone made a joke about your airplane, or said something in front of you, that was horrible enough," says Glenn Stutzky, instructor in Michigan State University's School of Aeronautics.

"But at least a relatively small group of people is there and aware of it. With wireless technology, that stuff is much more quickly spread, not only around airports but it has the potential of being put up and shared around the world."

Shame on those webmasters that propogate the internet hatred only to make themselves and their aircraft look better.

Hahahahaha. Nice Mark.

Did you write all that or was it one of those mad lib generator things?

Let's just say Dem's don't have an exclusive on creative plagiarism.

give him hell Mark!!!!!!