The Forest Service turned down many offers of free heavy equipment and operators too. I offered a dozer and know of others who did the same.
Is your name???? - oh never mind - I think I know your
name. You were published in Slate or World Net Daily with
that D-9 problem you had with the Forest Service, yes?
At any rate, if you like your news in viddy and not
reading all the time, DenverChannel has kindly put the
clip up so you can watch it. The video portion is from
AirShows DownUnder, March, 1995, where I first worked
with the Russians. What a hoot that was, and intimidating
too.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/index.html
Can you imagine going into an airshow tent with a bunch
of cosomonauts and test pilots staring at you - you not
knowing a word of Russian? And I was supposed to be working
for THEM?
Or how about going to a Russian party on a new jet
plane from Ilyushin, the IL-96, http://www.qsl.net/5ocean/il96-i.jpg
which President Putin uses, for a PARTY!
That's right, a PARTY for all the special people who
helped make the Russian presentation at that airshow
the success that it was.
The Metropolitain(?) of the Russian Orthodox Church of
Australia was there and there were the appropriate ceremonies. A real hoot! (But seriously, folks, quite an
honor and a priviledge.)
Channel 7 Melbourne was shocked - SHOCKED that when
I asked to bring them onboard to that party, the Russians
said 'sure' and they came aboard, cameras and all!
