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Clayton Scott, early Boeing test pilot, dies at 101
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| 9/29/06
Posted on 09/29/2006 2:20:20 PM PDT by Borges
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posted on
09/29/2006 2:20:21 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
This guy must certainly skew the life expectancy stats for his profession...
God Bless him and the men like him!
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posted on
09/29/2006 2:22:46 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Borges
God Bless Him.
He beat the odds in many ways.
He broke the actuarial tables.
To: Borges
Clayton Scott - flying again
Thank you for "shaking down" all those magnificent warbirds.
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posted on
09/29/2006 2:25:06 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
To: Borges
Born 2 years after the first Wright Brother's flight and 5 years after the turn of the century. He lived through WWI, WWII, Radio Age, vaccum tubes, transistors, silicon chips, bi-planes, mono-planes, the Jet Age and the Space Age.
What a life.
To: Aeronaut; Paleo Conservative; Dashing Dasher
To: Joe 6-pack
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This guy must certainly skew the life expectancy stats for his profession...
LOL, that is exactly what I was thinking as I read the article. |
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posted on
09/29/2006 2:35:53 PM PDT
by
HawaiianGecko
(Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.)
To: All
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posted on
09/29/2006 2:41:22 PM PDT
by
Aeronaut
(Hebrews 13:4)
To: Borges
We lost another old Boeing test pilot earlier this year; James R. Gannett. Gannett was Alvin M. "Tex" Johnston's co-pilot when Tex took the 707 prototype (367-80) out on August 7, 1955 and barrel-rolled the big airliner 400 feet above the water at the Seafair Gold Cup hydroplane race on Lake Washington - in front of thousands of people, including the president and most of the executives of Boeing as well as many potential customers.
Once Tex completed the roll, he did it again. And the jet age was launched.
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posted on
09/29/2006 2:45:27 PM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Borges
Rest In Peace
Click the Pic
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posted on
09/29/2006 4:03:07 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
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To: Paleo Conservative
The Boeing Dash 80 rolls out of the Renton Factory on May 14, 1954
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posted on
09/29/2006 4:29:17 PM PDT
by
phantomworker
(A life spent in making mistakes is more honorable & more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.)
To: Spktyr
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posted on
09/29/2006 5:23:26 PM PDT
by
dancusa
(For liberals there is no end to their rights and no beginning to their responsibilities.)
To: Joe 6-pack
I don't think it can be said any better, so I will simply respond...Ditto.
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posted on
09/29/2006 5:30:18 PM PDT
by
Gator113
To: Paleo Conservative
Is that the pic from the first Dash 80 flight?
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posted on
09/29/2006 5:37:37 PM PDT
by
wjcsux
(DUmmie FUnnies Pingee #917)
To: Rb ver. 2.0
He lived through WWI, WWII, Radio Age, vaccum tubes, transistors, silicon chips, bi-planes, mono-planes, the Jet Age and the Space Age. When he was born the way to listen to music at home was on either wax cylinders or gramophone discs that only held about 4 minutes of music at most with machines that took up the space of a small table. Today on the date of Mr. Scott's passing, you have iPods that store thousands of hours of music on a little box thinner than a normal pack of cigarettes! 
The 20th Century has sure been an age of enormous change.
To: dancusa
I can't find the video, where is it on the web page. Thank you, I've been wanting to see this since I heard about it!
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posted on
09/29/2006 5:58:10 PM PDT
by
Lx
(Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
To: Lx
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posted on
09/29/2006 6:15:54 PM PDT
by
dancusa
(For liberals there is no end to their rights and no beginning to their responsibilities.)
To: RayChuang88
Amazing! Thanks for sharing that insight.
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posted on
09/29/2006 6:51:50 PM PDT
by
phantomworker
(A life spent in making mistakes is more honorable & more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.)
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