Rep. Peltola's husband was hauling moose meat, antlers when plane crashed

CBS ^ | 9/29/23 | Jordan Freiman

[DallasBiff]

[DallasBiff]

They are both democrat hypocrites.

[blackdog]

The Coca Cola guys from the Frank Smith family out of Atlanta, used to haul in all kinds of trophy hunting kills in the 1990’s , thru Charlotte.

[blackdog]

Lions, Rhinos, Giraffe, Gazelles.

[Reno89519]

Too much weight? I recall from living in Alaska that was a common cause.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

He should have just bought prime rib at Costco instead.

[Nachoman]

Or left the second load for the wolves and bears.

[QBFimi]

Well, let’s see - the Super Cub (with wheels) will lift about 750-800#. Less with those biga$$ tundra tires. Soooo, 500# meat + 200# pilot doesn’t leave much for “combustible” (as my South American friends call avgas). Avgas weighs about 6# per gallon. Do the math.

Antlers on the struts = no big deal.

[digger48]

A White Hunter that my uncle hunted a with a couple times in Africa went down in a small plane years ago

Uncle didn’t know til later the guy was CIA

[QBFimi]

War story: When the KC-135s returned from TDY in Alaska the air conditioning “belly bays” were often filled with boxes of king crab. One had to be verrrrry careful when latching the bay doors - one misstep (and a less than smooth touchdown) would send 1,000# of crab spewing all over the runway.

[alternatives?]

Democrat spouses don’t shop at Costco.

From now on every election year we will hear about the sacrifices she made for the country.

[dfwgator]

Silence from the PETA crowd, but if he were a Republican....

[moovova]

...and the hubby will continue to vote.

[Libloather]

Just goes to show moose can fly. Not for very long but...

[mewzilla]

One week after Alaska Representative Mary Peltola objects to Biden illegally canceling Energy Leases in Alaska, her husband dies in plane crash

Interesting timing.

[bigbob]

Doesn’t look like a typical moose hunter

[BipolarBob]

[cpdiii]

Oddly he could have got away with being a bit over gross weight. Those damn moose antlers were an immense drag on the aircraft. I fly gliders in addition to power. My spoilers are far smaller than those antlers. When I deploy them I can make straight and level flight a 500 feet per minute decent. Pilot error and ignorance killed him.

[lee martell]

“Friends used to call us ‘Moose & Squirrel’. It was a private joke.”

[pfflier]

War story II: When our KC-135s returned from TDY from Altus or Tinker back to Malmstrom the belly bays were used for a Coors run.

We were very popular on those runs in the 70's. Ice cold right off the plane.