Hillsboro Air Show

Officials have decided that the Hillsboro Air Show will NOT be cancelled due
to the Hawker Hunter accident last summer.

I am of course glad to hear this. The airshow has been going on for well
over a decade, with Intel as one of its primary sponsors. Intel built a
factory under the downwind leg of the main runway, housing developments
sprung up to support the factory...and then everybody freaked out when a
plane crashed into homes in the general vicinity of the factory... that,
again, Intel built near the airshow that Intel sponsors at the airport
that's been there since Hillsboro was a collection of meadows with an
airport in the middle of it.

http://www.katu.com/


A Google Earth point to the crashsite is at
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthrea...?Number=621393

-c

Bad zoning decision.

gatt wrote:
Officials have decided that the Hillsboro Air Show will NOT be cancelled due
to the Hawker Hunter accident last summer.

I am of course glad to hear this. The airshow has been going on for well
over a decade, with Intel as one of its primary sponsors. Intel built a
factory under the downwind leg of the main runway, housing developments
sprung up to support the factory...and then everybody freaked out when a
plane crashed into homes in the general vicinity of the factory... that,
again, Intel built near the airshow that Intel sponsors at the airport
that's been there since Hillsboro was a collection of meadows with an
airport in the middle of it.

http://www.katu.com/


Hell, you might as well have an airshow. If you are going to allow
hobbiest Homer fly his Piper in and out of the airport, you might as
well allow a highly train fighter pilot zip around in his well
maintained jet.

lein wrote:

Hell, you might as well have an airshow. If you are going to allow
hobbiest Homer fly his Piper in and out of the airport, you might as
well allow a highly train fighter pilot zip around in his well
maintained jet.

In fact you might say it was "Hobbiest Homer" who crashed last show.
He was not officially part of the show and was only there to show off
his airplane. The only blame one can place on the air show is that it
was the show that attracted him there. There is nothing to prevent
someone with a similar aircraft from showing up at that airport any
time.

"lein" wrote in message
oups.com...

Hell, you might as well have an airshow. If you are going to allow
hobbiest Homer fly his Piper in and out of the airport, you might as
well allow a highly train fighter pilot zip around in his well
maintained jet.


Yep, except it wasn't a "highly trained fighter pilot" in a "well-maintained
jet" that caused the ruckus. And, he wasn't zipping around. He was on the
downwind leg trying to return to the airfield.

-c

On 16 Nov 2006 13:09:12 -0800, "hal lillywhite"
wrote:


lein wrote:

Hell, you might as well have an airshow. If you are going to allow
hobbiest Homer fly his Piper in and out of the airport, you might as
well allow a highly train fighter pilot zip around in his well
maintained jet.

In fact you might say it was "Hobbiest Homer" who crashed last show.
He was not officially part of the show and was only there to show off
his airplane.

As were all such folks who flew in.

He just happened to have a Much cooler airplane than did most.

The only blame one can place on the air show is that it
was the show that attracted him there.

Airplane drivers like to hang with other airplane drivers, and as a
general rule that's somewhere near an airport.

Best time to do that is when there's Something Interesting going on.

There is nothing to prevent
someone with a similar aircraft from showing up at that airport any
time.

Precisely.

But during an air show works just fine too.

Airplanes crash, sometimes. Mechanical failures are seldom
predictable.

Hate to lose a lovely aircraft like that one, though.

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:29:22 -0800, "gatt"
wrote:


"lein" wrote in message
roups.com...

Hell, you might as well have an airshow. If you are going to allow
hobbiest Homer fly his Piper in and out of the airport, you might as
well allow a highly train fighter pilot zip around in his well
maintained jet.

Yep, except it wasn't a "highly trained fighter pilot" in a "well-maintained
jet" that caused the ruckus. And, he wasn't zipping around. He was on the
downwind leg trying to return to the airfield.

Only after the power loss problem that caused him to try to return, so
he could land upwind.

"Don Homuth" wrote in message
...

Airplanes crash, sometimes. Mechanical failures are seldom
predictable.

Hate to lose a lovely aircraft like that one, though.

Indeed. PBS had a documentary on last night showing one of the reproduction
Me-262s in flight (modern engines, thankfully.) Never thought I'd see that.



-c

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:09:41 -0800, "gatt"
wrote:


"Don Homuth" wrote in message
.. .

Airplanes crash, sometimes. Mechanical failures are seldom
predictable.

Hate to lose a lovely aircraft like that one, though.

Indeed. PBS had a documentary on last night showing one of the reproduction
Me-262s in flight (modern engines, thankfully.) Never thought I'd see that.

The axial flow BMW is pretty much how all Modern engines are now
built. The main difference is in the materials and casting techniques
used.

It was a remarkable aircraft without question. Though to be honest,
the sound of a RR Merlin 12 roaring by still is The sound of a WW2
warbird to me.

The P-51, Spitfire and Hurricane all shared that venerable sound.

I just plain Love to hear it.

"Don Homuth" wrote in message
...

Yep, except it wasn't a "highly trained fighter pilot" in a
"well-maintained
jet" that caused the ruckus. And, he wasn't zipping around. He was on
the
downwind leg trying to return to the airfield.

Only after the power loss problem that caused him to try to return, so
he could land upwind.

Jets don't make good gliders. The problem was, he couldn't have turned
directly back toward the field because if he'd have overshot he'd have gone
directly into the crowd.

The HIO airshow has been going downhill for a long time, since they shuffled
the warbirds though and caused a couple of minor ground accidents just so
Truckasaurus or whatever that was could have its full show. I'm surprised
they haven't suspended air demonstrations for Kenny Rogers on the main stage
or something.



-c