small airplanes are dangerous

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:17:08 +0000, G.R. Patterson III wrote:



Roger Halstead wrote:

Now think about how much a farmer can haul in a grain wagon and they
have access to the right chemicals to do all sorts of things.

Both nitroglycerin and gunpowder use materials that are readily available to anyone
(are you *really* sure that guy buying charcoal is actually planning a cookout?).


Umm. Don't you actually mean black powder? Gunpowder or smokeless
powder is much harder to make and more powerful to boot.

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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coustanis wrote:

I crashed into smog once but all it did was swirl around me.
Did I just get lucky?

Obviously baby smog. Hadn't had time to set up yet.


Quite correct. Adult, or Mature, smog can actually completely dissolve your
plane and all people aboard. If this weren't an extremely serious matter,
the FAA wouldn't require smog reports in weather briefings.

"Buff5200" wrote in message

Every plane that has taken off, has come back to earth and landed.
We have never left one stranded in the sky.

LOL!

-c

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:58:40 -0500, Greg Copeland
wrote:

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:17:08 +0000, G.R. Patterson III wrote:



Roger Halstead wrote:

Now think about how much a farmer can haul in a grain wagon and they
have access to the right chemicals to do all sorts of things.

Both nitroglycerin and gunpowder use materials that are readily available to anyone
(are you *really* sure that guy buying charcoal is actually planning a cookout?).


Umm. Don't you actually mean black powder? Gunpowder or smokeless
powder is much harder to make and more powerful to boot.

Black powder is gun powder. Both black, and "smokes" are just
different kinds. Basic smokeless is derived from guncotton which is
not difficult to make, but to get the characteristics of the various
"progressive" burning smokeless powders is a science.

Unless confined, smokeless powder just burns. It takes a tight
confinement and pressure for it to burn faster hence the "progressive"
description. You can stick a match in a spoon full without losing
your eyebrows. Do not try with black powder :-))

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Greg Copeland wrote:

Umm. Don't you actually mean black powder?

Black powder *is* gunpowder.

George Patterson
If you don't tell lies, you never have to remember what you said.

Well, the ones that really keep me awake nights are the ultralights.
Those guys can take off from any back yard, and they can carry water
baloons full of smallpox that they can just drop into any swimming
pool. Should be banned from the skies. Much more dangerous than
rental trucks.

Hey, troll, a *lot* must keep you awake at night.


"PaulH" wrote in message
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Well, the ones that really keep me awake nights are the ultralights.
Those guys can take off from any back yard, and they can carry water
baloons full of smallpox that they can just drop into any swimming
pool. Should be banned from the skies. Much more dangerous than
rental trucks.

PaulH wrote:

Well, the ones that really keep me awake nights are the ultralights.
Those guys can take off from any back yard, and they can carry water
baloons full of smallpox that they can just drop into any swimming
pool. Should be banned from the skies. Much more dangerous than
rental trucks.

So to whoever you really are..... This is really how you have decided
to act on usenet, and the best that you can do with what must be a
rather sad excuse for a sad life.

"Roger Halstead" wrote in message

You can stick a match in a spoon full without losing
your eyebrows. Do not try with black powder :-))

Saw the results when a teenage kid tried to pour a pound of gunpowder on a
campfire at a campground in Oregon once a few years back.

The "do not try" cannot be overstated.

OTOH, my dad blew two of his fingers off when he was twelve and although
he's an accomplished marksman and avid hunter, they wouldn't take him when
he tried to enlist and then they determined him ineligible for the draft.

Uh...blahblahsomethingtodowithflyingblahbeforefull topicaldeflection...

-c

"PaulH" wrote in message

Well, the ones that really keep me awake nights are the ultralights.

Actually, that's truth. Was a guy in Corvallis that used to fly at night.
Nothing like an unmuffled engine flying low at 1 a.m. over an otherwise
quiet college town at 40 mph or whatever to draw out the AAA (amateur
anti-aircraft) fantasies.

-c