Another small plane SLAMS into home, killing one occupant

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:11:47 GMT, "gatt"
wrote:


"Don Tuite" wrote in message
.. .

Nothing particular about Hillsboro. Every quadrant surrounding Portland,
From Rhodendron to Yamhill and from Champoeg to
Battleground, is overbuilt and filled with Californians and shopping
malls.

Well, Don speaks the native tongue, that's for sure!

When I lived there, the bumperstickers said: "Don't Californicate Oregon,"
but the Jarvisites

What is a Jarvisite?!

Anti-tax. In CA, Howard Jarvis led the fight for proposition 13., a
good idea, but with some flaws nobody can address because it's a red
flag issue. I think Oregon went really over the top when you made it
part of the constitution that it takes 2/3 of the REGISTERED voters to
pass a school bond. Sign a paper in the Safeway parking lot one
afternoon and vote NO the rest of your life simply by staying home on
election day. Norman Rockwell should have painted it.

BTW, the average home in Portland sells for about
$300,000 now, and Vancouver caught up.

That sounds like relatiely slow inflation. When we got out of Dodge
and sold our "carpenter's special" tear-down in 1989, we got $100K on
a private contract, double what we'd paid in '77. That was two acres
between Aloha and Hillsboro, about 2 miles south of where that jet
crashed. So there'd be 5 $300K houses there today, except that what's
actually there is a street. For contrast, mean home price in Santa
Clara County is $700K, per this morning's Mercury News. Probably more
here in San Mateo Co.

This is so completely OT, I added the POL tag to the subject line

Don

From what I understand, Mooneys are also considered MD killers. I guess
those Cirrus planes with the deployable chutes are the MD killers de jour
these days....

"Don Tuite" wrote in message
...

What is a Jarvisite?!

Anti-tax. In CA, Howard Jarvis led the fight for proposition 13., a
good idea,

Ah. It's also the name of a really bizarre old former mayor and tycoon in
the Portland area. Sort of a real live Jabba the Hutt.

-c

"Skylune" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com...
From what I understand, Mooneys are also considered MD
killers. I guess those Cirrus planes with the deployable chutes
are the MD killers de jour these days....


Wait until these aces start buying the very light jets. Expect more, and
more spectacular, Hillsboro type crashes once these things prolifererate.

Tom Conner wrote:
Wait until these aces start buying the very light jets. Expect more, and
more spectacular, Hillsboro type crashes once these things prolifererate.

Not necessarily, Eclipse has outlined the training program that Eclipse
buyers will have to go through (very thorough). If they don't finish
the program their deposit is refunded. It sounds like Mr Raburn
understands how important the training issue will be for the success of
his new jet.
I think the biggest thing that's changed since the days of the "fork
tailed doctor killer" is the insurance companies are much stricter
concerning type training for high performance aircraft. Seeing as they
(ins co's) essentially run the show now, I don't think you'll see VLJs
falling out of the sky because of the recurrent training that will be
required to maintain the policy. I'm sure a few will be lost, if only
due to the numbers of aircraft forecast to be built, but I doubt an
epidemic will result.

Jim Macklin wrote:
A proper use of warning labels and placards would solve many
problems...
1

My last trip to California, they stuck a label on me that
said I've known to cause cancer in the state.