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Freedom and Prisons
Gliderports and Prisons - http://tinyurl.com/cd7sf4
Come to think of it, don't Tehachapi and Avenal have nearby prisons, too? Hmmm.... |
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Freedom and Prisons
Jean NV does too.
Medium Security is closed, Minimum security is open. Normally they house prison fire fighting teams there during "season". B "Kevin" wrote in message ... Gliderports and Prisons - http://tinyurl.com/cd7sf4 Come to think of it, don't Tehachapi and Avenal have nearby prisons, too? Hmmm.... |
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Freedom and Prisons
Yep, a number of us in the West US have noticed this. Both activities
need lots of cheap land (airport) in places where the average person wouldn't live. Kemp On May 4, 9:36*pm, "BT" wrote: Jean NV does too. Medium Security is closed, Minimum security is open. Normally they house prison fire fighting teams there during "season". B "Kevin" wrote in message ... Gliderports and Prisons -http://tinyurl.com/cd7sf4 Come to think of it, don't Tehachapi and Avenal have nearby prisons, too? Hmmm.... |
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At 12:57 05 May 2009, kizuno wrote:
Yep, a number of us in the West US have noticed this. Both activities need lots of cheap land (airport) in places where the average person wouldn't live. Kemp Come to think of it, don't Tehachapi and Avenal have nearby prisons, too? Hmmm.... We lost a crosswind runway at Hobbs, NM to a big industrial prison. Pretty sad when towns lobby for prisons. The American dream now involves casinos, pawnshops, and the steady jobs that a prison brings. I should know, I live in Nevada. Rant over... Rick |
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Actually the prison at Jean is "off airport", but under the traffic pattern,
they "the guards" don't like that, but its the glider pattern, we are a little busy to be dropping contraband into the yard. They hate the helicopters flying patterns there. B "kizuno" wrote in message ... Yep, a number of us in the West US have noticed this. Both activities need lots of cheap land (airport) in places where the average person wouldn't live. Kemp On May 4, 9:36 pm, "BT" wrote: Jean NV does too. Medium Security is closed, Minimum security is open. Normally they house prison fire fighting teams there during "season". B "Kevin" wrote in message ... Gliderports and Prisons -http://tinyurl.com/cd7sf4 Come to think of it, don't Tehachapi and Avenal have nearby prisons, too? Hmmm.... |
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Freedom and Prisons
A few years ago during a group outing from Chicago to John Dupree's
glider operation in Canon City (home of several prisons including a "supermax") one of our pilots landed a rented SGS 2-33 in a prison farm field. Neither the local prison officials or John Dupree were too happy about this at the time. Of course the machine had to be disassembled under guard. A few pilots there to reposition the aircraft lamented that our pilot landed at the men's prison and not the women's facility. On May 4, 10:16*pm, Kevin wrote: Gliderports and Prisons -http://tinyurl.com/cd7sf4 Come to think of it, don't Tehachapi and Avenal have nearby prisons, too? Hmmm.... |
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BT wrote:
Actually the prison at Jean is "off airport", but under the traffic pattern, they "the guards" don't like that, but its the glider pattern, we are a little busy to be dropping contraband into the yard. They hate the helicopters flying patterns there. B Add Boulder (CO) and Dalhart (TX)...though Boulder is a municipal airport near/in town & the prison is the city prison, while Dalhart is similar to Hobbs in that the (state) pen is on (former?) airport property. The Boulder city lockup is directly under the glider crosswind pattern entry, while the at Dalhart the pen is essentially one of the house thermals. I've been told the Dalhart guards don't like airplanes flying over (& by extension sailplanes circling) low over it, but I know at least one of the pen's local employees is friendly to gliders. Tangential to Rick Walters' (sardonic?) observation, I'll bet a considerably higher percentage of glider guiders know of the underlying reason for Alexis de Tocqueville's historic visit to the U.S. than the public at large. That's by (very) indirect way of agreeing w. R.W. btw... Regards, Bob W. |
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I spent some weeks flying at Canon City Colorado too and couldn't help
notice the vast prison complexes. The juxtaposition of my activity of freedom with those grim hell holes was chilling. |
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On May 6, 6:10*am, wrote:
I spent some weeks flying at Canon City Colorado too and couldn't help notice the vast prison complexes. *The juxtaposition of my activity of freedom with those grim hell holes was chilling. Recall the periodic sirens? Frank Whiteley |
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On May 6, 5:10 am, wrote:
I spent some weeks flying at Canon City Colorado too and couldn't help notice the vast prison complexes. The juxtaposition of my activity of freedom with those grim hell holes was chilling. That's exactly how I feel while thermalling over the Avenal prison... B. |
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