Travolta - did he ever ditch an aircraft?

Paul,

Please tell us how you would handle a complete electrical failure, at
night, in IMC when your flight instruments are not vacuum powered, but
are electrically driven.

It's funny, but very accomplished people, such as actors, sometimes
become very accomplished pilots as well. Ability in one area is not
necessarily mutually exculsive with the other. Danny Kaye, for one,
who set an around the world speed record in a Learjet. Another was
Bob Cummings who flew a Cessna Airmaster all over this country.
Arthur Godfrey flew his personal DC-3 (often single pilot) all over
the place and because he regularly landed it on his 2,500 foot long
farm strip in Virginia and because an Admiral who was also a naval
aviator was once aboard for the exercie, his short field technique was
later taught to naval aviators in piston powered equipment. You may
not like Mr. Travolta, but it just may be the case that he can truly
fly well.

But then again, because we in the aviation community are such a small
group of people, we do our best to promote aviation among the general
public by sniping at anyone within the community whom we perceive as
getting to big for his britches; thus we are assured that lots of
people will want to join our community.

All the best,
Rick

(Paul Tomblin) wrote in message ...
In a previous article, Billy Harvey said:
Why is it you criticize his actions here and yet a few posts ago you
stated:

This is only rumour, and I've never been able to find confirmation ...

Because he goes around making himself out to be a big hero, telling the
non-flying public that "most pilots" wouldn't have been able to handle it.

I refuse to believe that this was a failure mode that would kill "most
pilots".