Iowa City Airport in the News

"airman" wrote

Now, if only we can convince Wal-Mart to sell AvGas or open a Pilot Shop.
Should have been part of the sales contract.


Yea, and a place you can get your oil changed, and your tires rotated! :-)
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Jim in NC

And what the heck! Another bonus is that WalMart roofs make a pretty good
small plane emergency landing place! (WINK-GRIN)

I suspect they wouldn't hold up, but does anybody know for sure?

Jose
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Go to http://registry.faa.gov/arquery.asp and search for the names
WAL-MART and WALMART. I heard of a case where an employee complained
of harrassment and WM had an investigation team from headquarters in
the store before the day was over. Sam Walton puttered around from
store to store in the early days in a Tri-Pacer.
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"Morgans" wrote in message
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"airman" wrote

Now, if only we can convince Wal-Mart to sell AvGas or open a Pilot
Shop.
Should have been part of the sales contract.


Yea, and a place you can get your oil changed, and your tires rotated!
:-)
--
Jim in NC

No way in hell would a minimum wage (or lower) Wal-Mart employee touch
something that my life depended on.

And what the heck! Another bonus is that WalMart roofs make a pretty
good
small plane emergency landing place! (WINK-GRIN)

I suspect they wouldn't hold up, but does anybody know for sure?

Jose

I have seen pictures of small planes landing on retail store roofs (or was
it a factory?) before. Not much damage, as long as you don't hit one of
those big AC units! A some factories have big skylights, too. I suspect
that dropping a nosewheel would suck, too!
--
Jim in NC

Yea, and a place you can get your oil changed, and your tires rotated!
:-)
--
Jim in NC

No way in hell would a minimum wage (or lower) Wal-Mart employee touch
something that my life depended on.

Ahh, grasshopper, note the smiley figure. That was the irony.
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Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:
Yea, and a place you can get your oil changed, and your tires rotated!

:-)

--
Jim in NC

No way in hell would a minimum wage (or lower) Wal-Mart employee touch
something that my life depended on.


Ahh, grasshopper, note the smiley figure. That was the irony.


He couldn't help it. He was overcome with his rage against Walmart.

Jose wrote:
And what the heck! Another bonus is that WalMart roofs make a pretty
good
small plane emergency landing place! (WINK-GRIN)


I suspect they wouldn't hold up, but does anybody know for sure?

Roofs in this area of NJ are designed for a snow load of around 30 pounds per
square foot. I expect they're stronger in Iowa, but they're still not designed
to hold a typical small plane.

George Patterson
Whosoever bloweth not his own horn, the same shall remain unblown.

OK you can subsidize the employer's wages by a 30% premium to bring them up
to your trailer-park wage level. Next time you call line service for a tow,
tie-down or fill-up, tell them they're not worth the air you'd have to
breath to say they're worthless pieces of s**t. Ensure you do that before
they make the choice between pumping 100LL or JetA in your tanks. Bring cake
for them to eat to get the message across.


"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
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"Morgans" wrote in message
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"airman" wrote

Now, if only we can convince Wal-Mart to sell AvGas or open a Pilot
Shop.
Should have been part of the sales contract.


Yea, and a place you can get your oil changed, and your tires rotated!
:-)
--
Jim in NC

No way in hell would a minimum wage (or lower) Wal-Mart employee touch
something that my life depended on.

George Patterson writes:

Jose wrote:
And what the heck! Another bonus is that WalMart roofs make a pretty good
small plane emergency landing place! (WINK-GRIN)
I suspect they wouldn't hold up, but does anybody know for sure?

Roofs in this area of NJ are designed for a snow load of around 30 pounds per
square foot.

Surely they're designed to hold more than that over a smaller area than the
entire roof, though. Otherwise you couldn't even think about standing on them.

I expect they're stronger in Iowa, but they're still not designed to hold a
typical small plane.

No doubt.

Dan.

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