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Old May 11th 05, 11:34 PM
Charles O'Rourke
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Hi all -

According to the CNN web site, CNN will be having a program tonight
entitled, "Defending the Skies: The threat small planes and their pilots
pose to security." It's on at 8 PM EDT (on "Paula Zahn NOW"). Should
be interesting to find out how much of a threat we are.

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/

Charles.
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Old May 11th 05, 11:36 PM
Kev
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In contrast, ABC's website already has a decent editorial by their
resident pilot advisor:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/Travel/story?id=748540&page=1

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Old May 12th 05, 12:41 AM
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Kev wrote:
In contrast, ABC's website already has a decent editorial by their
resident pilot advisor:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/Travel/story?id=748540&page=1


I liked what he had to say.

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Old May 12th 05, 12:26 AM
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In article OLvge.12444$iU.459@lakeread05,
Charles O'Rourke -net wrote:

Hi all -

According to the CNN web site, CNN will be having a program tonight
entitled, "Defending the Skies: The threat small planes and their pilots
pose to security." It's on at 8 PM EDT (on "Paula Zahn NOW"). Should
be interesting to find out how much of a threat we are.

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/


should be a short program. :-/

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Old May 12th 05, 12:50 AM
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"Charles O'Rourke" -net wrote in message news:OLvge.12444\

According to the CNN web site, CNN will be having a program tonight
entitled, "Defending the Skies: The threat small planes and their pilots
pose to security." It's on at 8 PM EDT (on "Paula Zahn NOW"). Should
be interesting to find out how much of a threat we are.


I better chain my TV down so I don't throw it.

Assuming it wasn't filled with explosives or a dirty bomb, just how much
damage could a Cessna 152 do to a building anyhow.

I have a better idea, given that my brother just reported home alive from
the Syrian border:
"Defending America: The threat that politicians and their policies pose to
security."

-c


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Old May 12th 05, 02:55 AM
Larry Dighera
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On Wed, 11 May 2005 16:50:00 -0700, "gatt"
wrote in ::

"Defending America: The threat that politicians and their policies pose to
security."


With the temperature rising on the nuclear activity in North Korea and
Iran, and the asinine antics of this administration, it's beginning to
feel like the apocalypse is nigh. :-(


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Old May 12th 05, 03:17 AM
W P Dixon
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Larry,
I will have to agree with you it sure does look gloomy, Iran would be no
problem if we were not already stretched in Iraq. But I really worry about
North Korea, their Chinese buddies liked helping them out during the first
go around. And strategically it would behove the Chinese to help the North
Koreans again. That IMHO, could get mighty ugly.

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech


"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
news
With the temperature rising on the nuclear activity in North Korea and
Iran, and the asinine antics of this administration, it's beginning to
feel like the apocalypse is nigh. :-(



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Old May 12th 05, 05:03 AM
Jonathan Goodish
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In article ,
"W P Dixon" wrote:
I will have to agree with you it sure does look gloomy, Iran would be no
problem if we were not already stretched in Iraq. But I really worry about
North Korea, their Chinese buddies liked helping them out during the first
go around. And strategically it would behove the Chinese to help the North
Koreans again. That IMHO, could get mighty ugly.



This isn't an international politics group, but Larry can't help taking
shallow pot-shots at the President for some reason.

Both Iran and North Korea are so skilled at propaganda, unless you're
deep into the intelligence community, I doubt that any of us has the
slightest picture of reality in those countries, nor the qualifications
to determine how much of a threat, if any, they pose at this point.


JKG
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Old May 14th 05, 08:31 PM
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Jonathan Goodish wrote:
In article ,
"W P Dixon" wrote:
I will have to agree with you it sure does look gloomy, Iran

would be no
problem if we were not already stretched in Iraq. But I really

worry about
North Korea, their Chinese buddies liked helping them out during

the first
go around. And strategically it would behove the Chinese to help

the North
Koreans again. That IMHO, could get mighty ugly.



The Chinese are playing both sides here. Crazy Kim serves their
purposes but they have to make sure not to give him too much leash. The
elephant in the room is Japan. Their air force and navy are first-class
and very modern. They reprocess plutonium for power plants and they
already build satellite-launching rockets that could deliver a nuke
quite nicely. Technologically they are far ahead of anyone except us,
and that's only because they've refrained from investing in defense the
way we do. It would take them 5 years at best to become a regional
military superpower, and the Chinese don't want that to happen. The
last thing they want is the Japan Self-Defense Forces standing between
them and Taiwan. So long as the Japanese aren't too scared they stay
largely pacifist, but this is changing as the WWII generation dies out.

-cwk.

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Old May 12th 05, 04:55 AM
Mike W.
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Even packed with explosives, an airplane is not a good delivery vehicle
against concrete buildings. No velocity, no penetration. Just leaves a big
charred mark on the outside I would think.

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Assuming it wasn't filled with explosives or a dirty bomb, just how much
damage could a Cessna 152 do to a building anyhow.



 




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