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"gatt" wrote

That was the same show (Hillsboro, Rose Festival Airshow) in which the
wing
walker fell off and they had to figure out how to rescue him as the plane
ran out of fuel. 80,000-100,000 people dead silent. That was surreal!


Fell off, to go where, that he was still alive, and on the plane? I never
heard of this one. Can you share some more details?
--
Jim in NC

"gatt" wrote

Hey, is/was Dick Schramm the guy that did that really strange airshow
performance where they pretended somebody got in the Piper and bounced it
helter skelter all over the runway?
Saw that fifteen years or so ago. That was great stuff. The entire
family
next to us thought the announcer was serious.

I've seen that one, but don't remember where. I think they called it the
flying farmer. Good stuff!
--
Jim in NC

That was the same show (Hillsboro, Rose Festival Airshow) in which the
wing walker fell off and they had to figure out how to rescue him as the plane
ran out of fuel. 80,000-100,000 people dead silent. That was surreal!

Fell off, to go where, that he was still alive, and on the plane? I never
heard of this one. Can you share some more details?

I speculate that he fell off the wing, remained attached to the harness,
and upon landing would have been dragged into the ground. They were
seeking another alternative, and that airshow planes don't carry much
fuel to begin with (in order to be able to perform better)

But I would like to know the whole story if somebody knows it.

Jose
--
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"Peter Duniho" wrote in message

Guys like these are why Democrats don't win elections. Every
intelligent
thing a liberal leader says is undermined by some clueless jackass like
this

As opposed to all the clueless jackass Republicans? (Rush, O'Reilly, et
al)

Exactly. The only difference being, the jackass Republicans--which is
certainly not to say all Republicans are jackasses--are more convincing than
the jackass Dems.

Come on...both parties have plenty of clueless jackasses to go around.

Absolutely NO argument there.

Anybody know the Vancouver pilot that crashed in Portland, Oregon this
weekend?

Nope...I did find myself wondering if the airplane was a Cessna 150
though...

I catch your meaning. Looked to me that the airplane was green, but I
haven't seen much.

-c

"gatt" wrote in message
...
As opposed to all the clueless jackass Republicans? (Rush, O'Reilly, et
al)

Exactly. The only difference being, the jackass Republicans--which is
certainly not to say all Republicans are jackasses--are more convincing
than
the jackass Dems.

They've just had more practice at it. I don't doubt the Democrats will
polish their jackass act eventually.

[...]
I catch your meaning. Looked to me that the airplane was green, but I
haven't seen much.

Me either...only images I saw were on the nightly news, sounds similar to
what you saw. But all I caught was a tiny portion of what MIGHT have been
the vertical stabilizer. Hardly enough to ID an airplane.

Pete

"Dudley Henriques" dhenriques@noware .net wrote in message =
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=20
=20
Kind of makes you wonder what it must have been like for Alan Shepard=20
sitting on top of that Redstone just before they lit it....put =
together by=20
government workers after being assigned the job of building it as the =
lowest=20
bidder for the contract.
:-))
Dudley Henriques=20


I thought Wally Schirra said that.

Dudley Henriques wrote:
.......or what has come to be for me at least; the ultimate
mystery of Usenet......that being the existence of people out here who
actually will wait patiently for a particular poster they don't like to post
something....ANYTHING......and then check every word...every
statement......every meaning....in the twisted hope that the poster they
don't particularly like very well will make a mistake.....no matter how tiny
a mistake or error...that THEY can jump on immediately to use as "absolute
proof" that the object of their "exposure" is flawed!

Consider yourself lucky if they're actually waiting for you to post
something so they can try to embarass you with it. I've been a regular
in sci.research.careers, and they've got a guy over there who doesn't
even bother waiting for me to post something in order to mis-represent
my views.

Rich Lemert

Dudley Henriques wrote:
.......or what has come to be for me at least; the ultimate
mystery of Usenet......that being the existence of people out here who
actually will wait patiently for a particular poster they don't like to post
something....ANYTHING......and then check every word...every
statement......every meaning....in the twisted hope that the poster they
don't particularly like very well will make a mistake.....no matter how tiny
a mistake or error...that THEY can jump on immediately to use as "absolute
proof" that the object of their "exposure" is flawed!

Consider yourself lucky if they're actually waiting for you to post
something so they can try to embarass you with it. I've been a regular
in sci.research.careers, and they've got a guy over there who doesn't
even bother waiting for me to post something in order to mis-represent
my views.

Rich Lemert

"John R. Copeland" wrote in message
...
"Dudley Henriques" dhenriques@noware .net wrote in message
ink.net...


Kind of makes you wonder what it must have been like for Alan Shepard
sitting on top of that Redstone just before they lit it....put together by
government workers after being assigned the job of building it as the
lowest
bidder for the contract.
:-))
Dudley Henriques


I thought Wally Schirra said that.

Rockhound from "Armegeddon". The quote is usually a toss up between Schirra
and Grissom as to who actually said it. My guess would be Schirra. Sounds
just like something he would have said; great practical joker!
Dudley Henriques