It figures....

Stubby wrote:
Jay Honeck wrote:
...
They were idiots, but they weren't "accidentally" hitting the building,
like this guy apparently was. The Teamsters did it for sport.

Do any teamsters have pilot licenses?




A few did but,,,,, gravity soon weeded out those idiots.. G

at least your airplane was not inside the hanger.. and the paving company
should have insurance for that.. the airport commission should have demanded
a bond from the insurance company for damage before the contract was started

BT

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
8 years ago I got into "airport advocacy" in response to the crying
need to re-pave our taxiways here in Iowa City. 8 long years of
meetings, during which the "fix" went from a relatively cheap
top-coating (or even asphalt sealing) to a complete re-do, simply
because the powers-that-be stalled for so long.

But props and paint were being ruined, and we eventually prevailed. At
long last, the great day arrived, and the pavers got to work. Within
12 hours they had completely dug up all the horrible old taxiways
around our T-hangars (there really wasn't much to it.). Within three
days everything was graded for proper drainage, and some new sewers
were installed. Paving was about to begin.

Then, our airport commission president flagged me down after a flight
with Montblack, as we were returning from the Stearman fly-in. Had I
seen the damage, yet?

Um, what damage?

It seemed that one of the paver's suppliers had backed a semi into our
hangar, smashing the back wall and ripping the back door out. There
is now a man-sized hole in the back wall, and it's going to take some
time to fix...

*sigh* It figures...

:-(
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Stubby wrote:


Jay Honeck wrote:

...
They were idiots, but they weren't "accidentally" hitting the building,
like this guy apparently was. The Teamsters did it for sport.


Do any teamsters have pilot licenses?

Only as sport pilots according to Jay. :-)

Matt

"Stubby" wrote in message

Do any teamsters have pilot licenses?

I believe IBT represents UPS pilots, plus a few of the nonsked operators. I
think Fedex voted them out a few years ago. I don't know about Airborne or
DHL.

Do any teamsters have pilot licenses?

NetJet pilots are Teamsters.

Jay Honeck wrote:

Then, our airport commission president flagged me down after a flight
with Montblack, as we were returning from the Stearman fly-in. Had I
seen the damage, yet?

Um, what damage?

Once again Jay, what should have been a relatively benign activity turns
into interesting r.a.p fodder. How do you do it man? You're like a
magnet for stuff like this. Hmmm, a tornado almost hits the hotel...a
semi backs into your hangar...I think I'll stand farther away from you
the next time I see spinning propellers in the vicinity. You're not
planning any trips to the left coast soon, right? If so,
we...um...temporarily moved somewhere...but I hear Steve and Stephanie
have plenty of room! :-)

Glad that Atlas/Mustang/Family/other assorted hangar goodies (not
necessarily in that order) were not harmed.

There
is now a man-sized hole in the back wall, and it's going to take some
time to fix...
At least it's not "airplane size". That would have meant you now have a
shade hangar.

--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane

"To become a Jedi knight, you must master a single force. To become
a private pilot you must strive to master four of them"
- Rod Machado

(Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail)

If you don't have the depth perception and judgement to know
what you're seeing, all the looking in the world won't prevent accidents of
this type.

Is somebody going to tell me now that a deer was driving?

Jose
--
There are more ways to skin a cat than there are cats.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

("Jose" wrote)
Is somebody going to tell me now that a deer was driving?


We thought that part was obvious.

....since the hangar wasn't moving.


Montblack

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
Was the driver from Mexico? Maybe he couldn't read the instructions?

It's funny that you ask, but the paver's work crew appeared to be
all-Mexican. (Although this was apparently NOT the paver's truck driver
that hit the hangar.)


Paver's dump trucks had very clean, all white boxes - he said they're clean
because, 'he wants to keep up his company's image'


Montblack
"Captain, the irony meter can't take much more of this!"

"Jose" wrote in message news:J95Ng.322

Is somebody going to tell me now that a deer was driving?

What relevance does that comment have? Could you clarify?