Let's get high.

"Gatt" wrote:

If America as a whole is ever hit with a disaster as heavily as Katrina hit
the gulf coast states, I hope that we as a nation are able to endure and
rebuild with the tenacity, resiliance and determination that I saw from the
people in Gulfport, Biloxi, etc. Talk about a stiff upper lip; southerners
are some tough f'ing people!

I think Americans everywhere are tougher than they realize.


--
Dan
T-182T at BFM

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:02:45 -0500, "Dan Luke"
wrote:

I think Americans everywhere are tougher than they realize.

So do I.

We bitch, we moan...

But when Katrina, 9/11, Andrew, the NYC blackouts, name a disaster...
hit, people step up and suck it up. I wasn't there for Katrina, but I
was there for 9/11, and I saw it with my own eyes.

Sometimes, I think our comfortable lifestyle, as well as our ability
and freedom to bitch and moan is taken as softness. Try to take it
away...

Look at the people who simply show up unorganized from 100's of miles
away to help at a disaster like Katrina and 9/11.

"B A R R Y" wrote in message
...

I think Americans everywhere are tougher than they realize.

Look at the people who simply show up unorganized from 100's of miles
away to help at a disaster like Katrina and 9/11.

Motivational stuff, guys, and I hope it's true.

My cousin who lives in Gulfport (refuses to leave because she works with
animals there) said that the first responders after Katrina were the good
ol' rebel flag types from upstate who came down in pickup trucks loaded with
food, water, shovels, etc. Then she had a knock on her door; it was a
National Guard humvee distributing MREs, more or less without official
orders. Like the heroes of New Orleans--the US Coast Guard helicopter
crews--they didn't waste time waiting for the bureaucracy to give them
permission to mobilize. There's glory in that.

-c

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:07:47 -0700, "Gatt"
wrote:


Motivational stuff, guys, and I hope it's true.

I SAW IT MYSELF on 9/12 in Fairfield County, CT.

Folks were showing up at organizational areas along I-95 in CT and NY
asking "what can I do?" I'm sure the same happened down south, after
Katrina.

The USCG has a long history of dumping bureaucracy and getting it
done.

Sounds cool Dan. I must have missed the "bought a new plane"
post...assuming this is your bird. Yeah, higher/faster...very cool.
For now, however, I'll live in the 12K ft range and high 130's/low 140's
KTAS in the Arrow as it fits in the budget. Still...if I won the
lotto, er something, higher/faster sounds nice.

"Jack Allison" wrote:

Sounds cool Dan. I must have missed the "bought a new plane"
post...assuming this is your bird.

Yep:

http://rides.webshots.com:80/album/559437187xuvaYf


Yeah, higher/faster...very cool. For now, however, I'll live in the 12K ft
range and high 130's/low 140's KTAS in the Arrow as it fits in the budget.
Still...if I won the lotto, er something, higher/faster sounds nice.

Nothing wrong with that. That's a fast Arrow you've got.

--
Dan
T-182T at BFM

Dan Luke wrote:
Sounds cool Dan. I must have missed the "bought a new plane"
post...assuming this is your bird.

Yep:

http://rides.webshots.com:80/album/559437187xuvaYf

Man, and a glass panel to boot! That's one nice ride you have there Dan.

Yeah, higher/faster...very cool. For now, however, I'll live in the 12K ft
range and high 130's/low 140's KTAS in the Arrow as it fits in the budget.
Still...if I won the lotto, er something, higher/faster sounds nice.

Nothing wrong with that. That's a fast Arrow you've got.

Speed mods: plane came with aileron/flap/stabilator gap seals, wing root
fairings, gear lobe fairings and hubcaps.

Yeah, I can't complain about the speed/fuel burn tradeoff we have. When
I can cruse at these speeds burning right at 8 gph, it's pretty decent.

Bill Watson writes:

I was thinking the other day as to how piloting is already nearing
obsolescence. Things like the Predator have already demonstrated remote
piloting.. a noncom sitting in a bunker in Colorado or something
piloting a aircraft over in Iraq. Autopilots able to fly from chock to
chock are clearly possible if not already demonstrable.

Such systems have already been developed and demonstrated, but they are not
currently cost-effective for commercial air travel.

Nevertheless, the fondest dream of the airlines is that they'll one day be
able to eliminate human pilots. I don't see any insurmountable technical
obstacle that will prevent this.

Mxsmanic wrote:
Bill Watson writes:

I was thinking the other day as to how piloting is already nearing
obsolescence. Things like the Predator have already demonstrated remote
piloting.. a noncom sitting in a bunker in Colorado or something
piloting a aircraft over in Iraq. Autopilots able to fly from chock to
chock are clearly possible if not already demonstrable.

Such systems have already been developed and demonstrated, but they are not
currently cost-effective for commercial air travel.

Nevertheless, the fondest dream of the airlines is that they'll one day be
able to eliminate human pilots. I don't see any insurmountable technical
obstacle that will prevent this.

That's because your depth of knowledge only extends to a brief skimming
of wikipedia articles and playing flight simulator.

--
Jim Pennino

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writes:

That's because your depth of knowledge only extends to a brief skimming
of wikipedia articles and playing flight simulator.

No, it's because I know what the technology can actually do.