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On Dec 20, 10:27 am, Paul kgyy wrote:
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news...lowing_Emergen... Good thing he was so close to the ground. It would have been sad if he'd gotten stuck up there. We've never had anyone get stuck up their yet, we don't want to start now. |
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Dick Rutan makes emergency landing in C150
On Dec 20, 1:27 pm, Paul kgyy wrote:
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news...lowing_Emergen... The more I learn about flying, the more I realize you don't need a bunch of bells and whistles to make it fun. Considering all the toys Rutan has to choose from, the fact that he flew in a C 150 says alot about the guy. Same goes for Neil Armstrong, well known in the gliding community for his love of flying, or all the guys and gals out there flying Taylorcrafts, Cubs etc. Maybe if Cory Little had the same outlook he wouldn't have become part of someone's living room. Doug |
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Dick Rutan makes emergency landing in C150
On Dec 20, 11:25 am, gliderguynj wrote:
On Dec 20, 1:27 pm, Paul kgyy wrote: http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news...lowing_Emergen... The more I learn about flying, the more I realize you don't need a bunch of bells and whistles to make it fun. Considering all the toys Rutan has to choose from, the fact that he flew in a C 150 says alot about the guy. Same goes for Neil Armstrong, well known in the gliding community for his love of flying, or all the guys and gals out there flying Taylorcrafts, Cubs etc. Maybe if Cory Little had the same outlook he wouldn't have become part of someone's living room. Doug Cory Lidle's type of flying is fun too. Flying from New York out to California with his CFI is a blast. Its one of the reasons I traded in the Aeronca for a Mooney.I like to go deep into Mexico. You don't see any Taylorcrafts that far down and at least 1/2 the planes down there are Mooneys (probably because they have extra long legs). -Robert |
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Dick Rutan makes emergency landing in C150
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
... On Dec 20, 10:27 am, Paul kgyy wrote: http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news...lowing_Emergen... Good thing he was so close to the ground. It would have been sad if he'd gotten stuck up there. We've never had anyone get stuck up their yet, we don't want to start now. In all fairness, apparently "Daredevil pilot Dick Rutan" made some comment about being lucky it didn't happen when he was above the clouds, but yea, "Fortunately, he was flying below 1000 feet." is one of the dumber things I've read from the press. -- Geoff The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com remove spaces and make the obvious substitutions to reply by mail When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate. |
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Dick Rutan makes emergency landing in C150
We can snicker all we want at the clueless reporting of a liberal arts
major, low man on the totem pole, who gets sent to report on general aviation - but how many of us have contacted the paqper and the tv station and offered to take the general news reporter(s) flying on a saturday afternoon so we can teach them the basics? denny hand up |
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Dick Rutan makes emergency landing in C150
Marty Shapiro wrote:
There was an newscaster in the Bay area many years ago who read an report about a GA incident on the air. This report contained several factual errors about the incident, among which was the picture of a twin for the single engine aircraft involved. The irony was he was a well known local pilot. About a week later, he MCed an all day safety seminar. The first question asked of him was about the factual errors in his report. His response was "I receive a 7 figure salary for reading the news that is handed to me by the editors. If they give me advance copy and I notice an error, I'll point it out to them, but when I'm on the air, I am not going to jeapordize my salary by altering what they hand me." That's fine, but from that point I'd assume he knows no better and lacks credibility. If they handed him as report stating the earth was flat, he'd read it that way. How can you believe a word out of his mouth when the truth has such little importance? I remember many years ago when 20-20 did a hatchet job on an industry I was intimately familiar with. They neglected to report that the behaviors one organization (the target of the report) followed were the STANDARDS OF THE INDUSTRY. In other words, they had no story unless they wanted to castigate the entire industry. I forever assumed if they did that to something I knew, they did it to everybody they reported on. I never watched another show as I assume they're all hatchet jobs. No credibility = no viewers -- Mortimer Schnerd, RN mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com |
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Dick Rutan makes emergency landing in C150
Denny wrote:
We can snicker all we want at the clueless reporting of a liberal arts major, low man on the totem pole, who gets sent to report on general aviation - but how many of us have contacted the paqper and the tv station and offered to take the general news reporter(s) flying on a saturday afternoon so we can teach them the basics? I've never bothered. I have suggested to them that before they ever ran an aviation story, they ought to run it through their on-staff aviation expert to make sure it made sense: their helicopter pilot. He's just a phone call away, they already know him, and he knows flying. Judging from the quality of their later aviation stories, they couldn't be bothered. As a result, aircraft engines continue to stall and airplanes crash because the pilot's medical had expired. Is it any wonder that I take a newspaper's endorsement of a politician with a grain of salt? They **** everything else up; why not that? -- Mortimer Schnerd, RN mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com |
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