Fosset

Here is a series of photos of searchers who went up to Steve
Fossetts's crash site. Click on Slide Show for presentation.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockwel...959209/?page=1


Big John

Out of 109 photos, MAYBE five or six worth seeing. Mostly old farts sitting
in helicopters or climbing over rocks. What a waste of bandwidth.

Jim

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Tech Support wrote in message
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Here is a series of photos of searchers who went up to Steve
Fossetts's crash site. Click on Slide Show for presentation.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockwel...959209/?page=1


Big John

Good thing I didn't take your word for it.

RST Engineering wrote:
What a waste of bandwidth.

Jim

RST Engineering wrote:
Out of 109 photos, MAYBE five or six worth seeing. Mostly old farts sitting
in helicopters or climbing over rocks. What a waste of bandwidth.

Jim

Hope you feel better soon.

"romeomike" wrote in message
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RST Engineering wrote:
Out of 109 photos, MAYBE five or six worth seeing. Mostly old farts
sitting in helicopters or climbing over rocks. What a waste of
bandwidth.

Jim

Hope you feel better soon.

I gotta agree with Jim. If you are going to do something worthwhile, don't
put every shot up for everyone to view. Edit, edit, edit.

It would have been nice to put a few shots in a row, tracing the tree
strikes, and what the plane impacted, all in a row. Then in another group,
all the shots of crash remnants. Perhaps a few captions on the pictures, to
say what you are supposed to be seeing.

Beautiful landscape, and nice helicopters. I could give a crap less, who
the people were, that were on the expedition. Perhaps one group shot, for
history. Perhaps a few people got in the way of a shot recording something
significant. I was hoping to see a little more than that.
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Jim in NC

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:57:54 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

Out of 109 photos, MAYBE five or six worth seeing. Mostly old farts sitting
in helicopters or climbing over rocks. What a waste of bandwidth.

Jim
************************************************** ****

Glad to see none of the current posters walked into the area where the
personal items were found that started the search again for the
aircraft and any body parts. And did not search the areas between the
personal items location and crash site.

Groups who walked the ground were experienced mountaineers and they
had a hard time due to altitude and terrain. Their recovery by chopper
due to Wx and end of the area search, got them back to rally point
before dark and before Wx closed in and was a safety measure. Chopper
pictures gave credit to organizations who furnished the choppers.

Expect the DNA test results of the small pieces of bone found, to show
if animals got to the body. From my experience using DNA testing, it
will take 2-3 months (or longer) to get any results from DNA tests.

Since the crash burned, wonder why one of the Satellites didn't pick
up????

No matter the cause, sorry end to a flamboyant flier.

He at least died with his boots on, as we say here in Texas.

Big John

On Oct 13, 9:55*pm, Clark wrote:
"RST Engineering" wrote innews:CZqdnSr0F4vlT27VnZ2dnUVZ_h2dnZ2d@supernews. com:

Out of 109 photos, MAYBE five or six worth seeing. *Mostly old farts
sitting in helicopters or climbing over rocks. *What a waste of
bandwidth.

Jim

Who was it that forced you to look? Hmmmm?

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there should be a "sig" here

Yeah, no phucing ****. Bunch of whiney old women on this group and
not a one of them actually out there doing anything but think they're
opinion of someone else's hard work means something. To these arm
chair geniuses: STFU.

Tech Support wrote in message
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Here is a series of photos of searchers who went up to Steve
Fossetts's crash site. Click on Slide Show for presentation.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockwel...959209/?page=1


Big John


So did anyone find the wreckage after knowing where it was at on Google
Maps?

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:47:42 -0500, Tech Support wrote:

Since the crash burned, wonder why one of the Satellites didn't pick
up????

Depends on how often a satellite with a high enough resolution images the area.

Unless the fire had touched off some of the local brush, any heat and smoke was
likely to be long gone by the next imaging pass. On one of the pictures, I was
struck by how well the crumpled, blackened steel tube structure seemed to blend
into the background....

Ron Wanttaja

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:25:03 -0400, "Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote in
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So did anyone find the wreckage after knowing where it was at on Google
Maps?

Not me.

I did about 1500 or so hits on the Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT),
which used imagery updated from various sources to make
sure that the images had been taken AFTER the loss of
the aircraft.

I haven't seen a final report on why the AMT search missed
the crash site. I have the impression that the good, new
imagery may not have included the place where we now know
the plane ended up.

Here's one critical report on AMT from shortly after
Amazon shut the search down:

http://www.network-centricadvocacy.n...e-fossett.html

Another interim take on "what went wrong" with the search:

http://adventure.nationalgeographic....-vlahos-text/1

It will be interesting to see updated reviews of the
various search strategies that folks used.

Marty
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