"Hey, Jack," I started kidding him, "I hear that you practiced
upside-down landings for months, and that finally you made one. Is there
any truth to that?"
He clamped his jaws but grinned back at me. "That's all right," he said,
"but if I remember correctly I saw a pilot by the name of Jimmy Collins
just miss landing upside down once."
"Yeah, Jack," I said, "but--" I hesitated: this was too good not to
emphasize--"but I missed," I said.
Jack just glared at me. There wasn't any answer.