Blue Angels plane crashes

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:00:19 -0700, Mike Hunt postmaster@localhost
wrote:

With military people dying everyday in hostile actions elsewhere in the
world, one death from an stunt flying aviator really doesn't make that
much difference.

What a truly stupid thing to say.

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On Apr 21, 6:24 pm, Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:
On 21 Apr, 23:08, Mxsmanic wrote:

See

http://us.cnn.com/2007/US/04/21/blue...ash/index.html

aren't you the little ray of sunshine.

What's it to you anyway? Noone flies in your world, wannabe boi,

Bertie


Some times people like you make me ashamed to be part of this group.
Grow up, and show some sensitivity to an event that took a pilot's
life.

My prayers go out to the victim's family.

Prayers to whom?

Do we pilots have a patron saint?


Saint Joseph of Cupertino

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Cupertino

HTH.

JohnT

I notice we're lumped in there with "people with mental handicap"

mike

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Do we pilots have a patron saint?


Saint Joseph of Cupertino

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Cupertino

HTH.

JohnT

Mike Hunt wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:

See

http://us.cnn.com/2007/US/04/21/blue...ash/index.html


Interesting quote he

"On an F-18, you have two motors, and if they take [a bird] in the
engine, it could cause engine failure and shut that down," he said. He
said the plane is capable of flying in excess of 450 mph.

An F-18 can fly in excess of 450 MPH.. Who would've guessed?

Yes, and I've never seen a motor propelling a jet before either...

Matt

Do we pilots have a patron saint?

Saint Joseph of Cupertino
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Cupertino

I notice we're lumped in there with "people with mental handicap"

The patron saint of air travelers, aviators, people with a mental
handicap, and bad students.

On Apr 22, 3:58 am, Mike Hunt postmaster@localhost wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:
See

http://us.cnn.com/2007/US/04/21/blue...ash/index.html

Interesting quote he

"On an F-18, you have two motors, and if they take [a bird] in the
engine, it could cause engine failure and shut that down," he said. He
said the plane is capable of flying in excess of 450 mph.

An F-18 can fly in excess of 450 MPH.. Who would've guessed?

Those CNN guys *are* slick aren't they? 1.8 Mach IS faster than
450mph. My Convert-O-Matic program sez it's actually 1,383mph. (Mach
speed figure is from Boeing)

Happy Dog writes:

Do we pilots have a patron saint?

Our Lady of Loreto

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john smith writes:

The patron saint of air travelers, aviators, people with a mental
handicap, and bad students.

The patron saint of pilots is Our Lady of Loreto, in Roman Catholicism.

"Our Lady" is another name for the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, in RC.

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B A R R Y writes:

What a truly stupid thing to say.

I don't see anything stupid about it. It's important to keep things in
perspective.

I'm always amazed by how skewed the perceptions of death can be. When 32
people are shot by a nutcase, it becomes a Major Media Event and a national
day of mourning. When 150,000 are killed by an atomic bomb in a distant
foreign country, it is a cause for celebration, with not a single tear shed.

People become indignant when others refuse to wail with grief over the deaths
of those the former consider important, but they simultaneously show precisely
the same indifference towards the untold millions of others who are dying
throughout the world. It's an extreme case of tunnel vision, and it's a form
of irrational emotion that is dangerous to society.

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NoTrollz wrote:
B A R R Y wrote:


On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:00:19 -0700, Mike Hunt postmaster@localhost
wrote:

With military people dying everyday in hostile actions elsewhere in the
world, one death from an stunt flying aviator really doesn't make that
much difference.

What a truly stupid thing to say.


From what I've read he's the king of saying stupid things.

It's one death. Not any more important than the deaths of others dying
in the military.