Flying-ANot everybody here is wearing sack clothes and ashes over his death. Some reasons why:
His first wife:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Kennedy
How he spent his spare time:
http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_5585&pageNum=5
How he beat the rap for a young woman’s death:
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20120819,00.html
He joked about it, too:
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-dont-know-if-you-know-this-or-not-but.html
Flying-ANot everybody here is wearing sack clothes and ashes over his death. Some reasons why:
His first wife:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Kennedy
How he spent his spare time:
http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_5585&pageNum=5
How he beat the rap for a young woman’s death:
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20120819,00.html
He joked about it, too:
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-dont-know-if-you-know-this-or-not-but.html
Flying-AI was afraid of something like this:
Air traffic controller suspended, was chatting on phone with girlfriend during Hudson River crash
By Kenneth R. Bazinet
With Erin EinhornNEW YORK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Updated Thursday, August 13th 2009, 8:13 PM
The exact moment when a tourist helicopter collided with a small plane over the Hudson River Saturday was captured by a tourist on a boat. See shocking new video below.
WASHINGTON – The air traffic controller at Teterboro Airport was on the phone with his girlfriend during the mid-air collision over the Hudson River.
His supervisor had wandered off and wasn’t even in the tower.
Horrified officials called their actions “unacceptable,” even though they were not blamed for Saturday’s crash.
Both controllers – who were not immediately identified – have been suspended and will likely be fired.
Crash probes by the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration revealed the two controllers seriously deviated from their assignments at the time of the collision.
Nine people died when a single-engine Piper plane with three aboard clipped a Liberty Helicopters sightseeing chopper carrying a pilot and five Italian tourists. Both aircraft plummeted into the river.
The NTSB and FAA discovered the controller lapses by listening to audio recordings from the Teterboro tower.
“We learned that the controller handling the Piper flight was involved in apparently inappropriate conversations on the telephone at the time of the accident,” FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said.
“We also learned that the supervisor was not present in the [tower] building as required.”
Babbitt said, “We have no reason to believe at this time that these actions contributed to the accident” but he called the laxness unacceptable.
“We have placed the employees on administrative leave and have begun disciplinary proceedings,” he said.
Air traffic control transcripts indicated no problems in the exchange between controllers at the New Jersey airport and the plane’s pilot, Steven Altman, who was heading for Ocean City, N.J.
The controller gave Altman two choices of route, and he chose a straight shot down the Hudson.
NTSB chairwoman Debbie Hersman has said the controller told Altman to switch his radio over to the Newark tower – and gave the correct frequency – but Newark never made contact.
The controller was also on a separate line with his girlfriend.
“The handoff was never made,” an aviation source said.
Mayor Bloomberg was alarmed by the development.
“If true, this is an unacceptable breach of the trust we put in those who watch the city’s sky,” he said.
New clues to the crash may be contained in a dramatic tourist video of the tragedy that surfaced Thursday on NBC News.
The footage, taken from a boat on the river, shows Altman desperately trying to lift his left wing to avoid hitting the helicopter.
Meanwhile, the remains of the five Italian tourists were welcomed home to Bologna by a large, emotional crowd of friends, relatives and mourners.
Silvia Rigamonti, who lost her husband and youngest son, threw herself at her husband’s casket.
Flying-AAnd the pilot credits Biggles for his survival!
Flying-ABumbleBee —
You are right to be concerned, because foxes do prey on domestic cats.
I would suggest contacting your local RSPCA office to find somebody in your area who humanely traps wildlife and releases them in the countryside.
Flying-ABumbleBee —
You are right to be concerned, because foxes do prey on domestic cats.
I would suggest contacting your local RSPCA office to find somebody in your area who humanely traps wildlife and releases them in the countryside.
Flying-ABelated thanks on the information on the name Avon Sabre.
I got around to reading some online information on the plane and its development has some parallels to the F-86H: redesigned fuselage for a new engine, replacement of fifty caliber guns with automatic cannons, and (eventually for the Avon Sabre) hard points for fighter-bomber work.
Flying-AThanks for the link! Whether flying or standing still, the Sabre was and is a beautiful plane. And adaptable, too.
By the way, I’ve seen the CA-27 called the Avon-Sabre. Was that an official or unofficial name?
Flying-AHow many Great War veterans remain in the whole world?
There are now just four known living WWI veterans: two British, one Canadian, and one American:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_surviving_World_War_I_veterans_by_country
Flying-AThe NTSB reports:
Safety Agency Blames Downdrafts for Steve Fossett Crash
Thursday , July 09, 2009
Associated Press (via Fox News)
WASHINGTON —
The aircrash that killed entrepreneur Steve Fossett, famed for his daredevil aerial feats, probably was caused by downdrafts that exceeded the ability of his small plane to recover before slamming into a mountainside, federal safety officials said Thursday.
Fossett, 63, disappeared on Sept. 3, 2007, after taking off alone from a Nevada ranch owned by hotel magnate Barron Hilton for what was supposed to be a short pleasure flight. His Bellanca 8KCAB-180, a single-engine, two-seater known as the “Super Decathalon,” crashed near Mammoth Lakes, Calif.
An extensive, high-profile search failed to turn up any clues to his fate. A year later, on Oct. 7, 2008, a hiker found some of Fossett’s belongings. An aerial search located the wreckage about a half-mile away at an elevation of about 10,000 feet.
On the day of the accident, no emergency radio transmissions were received from Fossett, nor were any emergency locator transmitter signals received, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a report.
However, after the wreckage was discovered, a review of radar data from September 2007 revealed a “track” that ended about a mile northwest of the accident site, the board said.
Fossett, who made a fortune in the Chicago commodities market, gained worldwide fame for setting records in high-tech balloons, gliders, jets and boats. He was the first person to circle the world solo in a balloon.
Within two days of Fossett’s disappearance, experienced pilots were speculating that even the master of aerial adventure could have fallen victim to the notorious winds on the Sierra’s eastern front that are so powerful and tricky they can swirl an airplane like a leaf and even shear off a wing.
“There’s been times when I’ve been flying in the wind and my blood turns cold,” Adam Mayberry, a private pilot and former spokesman for the Reno-Tahoe International Airport, said at the time.
Wind gusts in the area can whip up without warning from any direction, with sudden downdrafts that can drag a plane clear to the ground. Passengers flying even on commercial airliners between Las Vegas and Reno know to keep their seat belts fastened for a ride that is never smooth.
Mark Twain wrote about the “Washoe Zephyr” — named for the Nevada county — in the book “Roughing It.”
“But, seriously, a Washoe wind is by no means a trifling matter. It blows flimsy houses down, lifts shingle roofs occasionally, rolls up tin ones like sheet music, now and then blows a stagecoach over and spills the passengers,” he wrote.
In 1999, three well-known glider pilots were killed in two separate accidents after taking off from the Minden airport north of Yerington.
Flying-AP-6E in Michigan — one of the famous Snow Owls based at Selfridge Field?
Flying-AAlthough there are reports of new demonstrations this weekend, the mullahs and their enforcers seem to have matters well in hand for the time being.
With Neda Soltani dies the popular notion that today’s advance IT — cell phones, the internet, Facebook, Twitter, etc. — can bring down tyrannies. The mullahs of Iran have succeeded in blocking many of those technologies and using them to their own ends, tracking down dissidents and even hacking a college website in Tennessee that supported the demonstrators.
The demonstrators had the gadgets. The mullah’s men had the guns. End of story.
Flying-AAlthough there are reports of new demonstrations this weekend, the mullahs and their enforcers seem to have matters well in hand for the time being.
With Neda Soltani dies the popular notion that today’s advance IT — cell phones, the internet, Facebook, Twitter, etc. — can bring down tyrannies. The mullahs of Iran have succeeded in blocking many of those technologies and using them to their own ends, tracking down dissidents and even hacking a college website in Tennessee that supported the demonstrators.
The demonstrators had the gadgets. The mullah’s men had the guns. End of story.
Flying-AAlso a USMC aviator:
Flying-AAlso a USMC aviator:
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