Morning News

[Roger Long]

Lead Story:

DISASTER AVERTED AT PORTLAND JETPORT

The Portland Jetport was closed and a Portland based pilot narrowly escaped
with his life this morning when the rear landing gear on his Cessna Hawk
collapsed.

(Cut to aerial shot of runway covered with flashing lights and emergency
vehicles)

Next scene was an interview with someone from the fire department saying
that it was a good thing that is was a rear wheel. "If it had been a
nosewheel, there would have been a catastrophe."

(Image in hundreds of viewers heads of a wave of burning aviation fuel
rolling down the streets of their neighborhood.)

Next scene: Anchors looking at each other and saying, "Whew! He was a lucky
guy."

The plane, an amphibian, happens to be tied down next to ours. I went to
look at the damage. The wheels were properly extended and everything looked
normal. I felt under the keels of both floats. They were both a little
rough ahead of the wheels but I'm durned if I can figure out which one was
just scraping along the concrete.

Sheesh! The media!

--
Roger Long

[Thomas Pappano]

Roger Long wrote:
> Lead Story:
>
> DISASTER AVERTED AT PORTLAND JETPORT
>
> The Portland Jetport was closed and a Portland based pilot narrowly escaped
> with his life this morning when the rear landing gear on his Cessna Hawk
> collapsed.
>
> (Cut to aerial shot of runway covered with flashing lights and emergency
> vehicles)
>
> Next scene was an interview with someone from the fire department saying
> that it was a good thing that is was a rear wheel. "If it had been a
> nosewheel, there would have been a catastrophe."
>
> (Image in hundreds of viewers heads of a wave of burning aviation fuel
> rolling down the streets of their neighborhood.)
>
> Next scene: Anchors looking at each other and saying, "Whew! He was a lucky
> guy."
>
> The plane, an amphibian, happens to be tied down next to ours. I went to
> look at the damage. The wheels were properly extended and everything looked
> normal. I felt under the keels of both floats. They were both a little
> rough ahead of the wheels but I'm durned if I can figure out which one was
> just scraping along the concrete.
>
> Sheesh! The media!
>
> --
> Roger Long
>
>
Ha!

Just a few days ago here in Tulsa, a woman landed either a 152
or 172, without any nose gear. The whole assembly had fallen
off in flight south of town. The landing was uneventful, the plane
making a straight rollout/scrapeout, coming to rest in an
understandibly "nose low" attitude.

Tom Pappano, PP-ASEL-IA

[Jay Honeck]

> Just a few days ago here in Tulsa, a woman landed either a 152
> or 172, without any nose gear. The whole assembly had fallen
> off in flight south of town. The landing was uneventful, the plane
> making a straight rollout/scrapeout, coming to rest in an
> understandibly "nose low" attitude.

Yikes! Sounds like a new Airworthiness Directive for Cessna 152 owners,
rolling down the pike...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[John Harper]

Nah, consider it a feature. The Germans had a rocket plane
during the war that took off on a trolley which it jettisonned
after take off. (Not sure how it landed?). Anyway maybe someone
got the plans mixed up.

John

"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
news:dyZib.770339$Ho3.201260@sccrnsc03...
> > Just a few days ago here in Tulsa, a woman landed either a 152
> > or 172, without any nose gear. The whole assembly had fallen
> > off in flight south of town. The landing was uneventful, the plane
> > making a straight rollout/scrapeout, coming to rest in an
> > understandibly "nose low" attitude.
>
> Yikes! Sounds like a new Airworthiness Directive for Cessna 152 owners,
> rolling down the pike...
> --
> Jay Honeck
> Iowa City, IA
> Pathfinder N56993
> www.AlexisParkInn.com
> "Your Aviation Destination"
>
>

[mike regish]

It had retractible skids.

mike regish

"John Harper" > wrote in message
news:1066168038.583134@sj-nntpcache-5...
> Nah, consider it a feature. The Germans had a rocket plane
> during the war that took off on a trolley which it jettisonned
> after take off. (Not sure how it landed?). Anyway maybe someone
> got the plans mixed up.
>
> John

[JimC]

Just another example of over dramatization from the ignorant media weenies.

One of the best treatments of media people that I've encountered is in a
book called "Tricky Business". The author, a syndicated newspaper humor
columnist - Dave Barry, has a number of people die during an average
tropical storm. All of them were from one news station doing their usual
over-dramatic coverage of the storm. The storm didn't really contribute to
any of their deaths. They all fell victim to their moronic pursuit of
making anything into a story. Very fitting, and great humor.

JimC


"Roger Long" m> wrote in
message ...
> Lead Story:
>
> DISASTER AVERTED AT PORTLAND JETPORT
>
> The Portland Jetport was closed and a Portland based pilot narrowly
escaped
> with his life this morning when the rear landing gear on his Cessna Hawk
> collapsed.
>
> (Cut to aerial shot of runway covered with flashing lights and emergency
> vehicles)
>
> Next scene was an interview with someone from the fire department saying
> that it was a good thing that is was a rear wheel. "If it had been a
> nosewheel, there would have been a catastrophe."
>
> (Image in hundreds of viewers heads of a wave of burning aviation fuel
> rolling down the streets of their neighborhood.)
>
> Next scene: Anchors looking at each other and saying, "Whew! He was a
lucky
> guy."
>
> The plane, an amphibian, happens to be tied down next to ours. I went to
> look at the damage. The wheels were properly extended and everything
looked
> normal. I felt under the keels of both floats. They were both a little
> rough ahead of the wheels but I'm durned if I can figure out which one was
> just scraping along the concrete.
>
> Sheesh! The media!
>
> --
> Roger Long
>
>