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Inhofe "Scared The Crap Out Of" Airport Workers
The Smoking Gun ^
| April 13, 2011
Posted on 04/13/2011 11:55:17 AM PDT by EveningStar
Newly released Federal Aviation Administration documents and audiotapes shed a scary new light on a bizarre incident late last year during which U.S. Senator James Inhofe landed his Cessna on a closed runway at a south Texas airport, scattering construction workers who ran for their lives as the politicians plane hopscotched over them and six vehicles.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aviation; faa; jamesinhofe
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To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
04/13/2011 11:56:29 AM PDT
by
EveningStar
(Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
To: EveningStar
According to the Discovery channel they do this sort of thing all the time in Alaska
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posted on
04/13/2011 11:57:37 AM PDT
by
Cowman
(How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
To: Tijeras_Slim; FireTrack; Pukin Dog; citabria; B Knotts; kilowhskey; cyphergirl; Wright is right!; ..
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posted on
04/13/2011 11:57:37 AM PDT
by
EveningStar
(Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
To: EveningStar
I guess now when you google “Senator Airplane” McCaskill’s little tax problem won’t be so obvious.
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posted on
04/13/2011 11:58:22 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: EveningStar
The guy needs to lose his pilots license. He’s a hazard to aviation.
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posted on
04/13/2011 12:00:42 PM PDT
by
saganite
(What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
To: saganite
Don't you know who I am?
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posted on
04/13/2011 12:02:56 PM PDT
by
kbennkc
(For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
To: EveningStar
Boyd also said that Inhofe showed little contrition following the close call. He come over here and started being like, 'What the hell is this? I was supposed to have unlimited airspace.' Arrogant jerk!
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posted on
04/13/2011 12:04:33 PM PDT
by
rawhide
To: kbennkc
Of Course,,,Sky King and his twin Beach.
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posted on
04/13/2011 12:04:42 PM PDT
by
YOMO
To: Joe 6-pack
I know a doctor who landed on the taxiway when cleared to land at Hart's Field, Atlanta Int'l. Twice!
Or how about the C5 transport plane belonging to the Airforce that landed at Newburgh airport in New York instead of the airbase in Poughkipsee? They had to dismantle the wings and truck it out because it was too short of a runway.
Inhoffe has been a GA pilot for thirty years I know of. He flies a Cesna 421, which is a lot of complex plane without a copilot. Biz jets are easier to fly than high performance twin piston engines.
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posted on
04/13/2011 12:04:59 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
To: kbennkc
As a kid I watched Sky King. It is the reason I got my pilots licence.
Were I to do this my ticket would be yanked.
To: kbennkc
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posted on
04/13/2011 12:09:28 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are .)
To: kbennkc
Where is Sky King’s neice Penny? Is she back at the Flying Crown Ranch?
To: YOMO
Umm, it was UC-78B and Cessna 310B.
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posted on
04/13/2011 12:12:49 PM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
To: saganite
Hazards in aviation have a way of taking care of themselves. It's not a wise thing to combine your professional life and assume your own pilot duties. Each requires 100% of your attention and concentration in the planning, operational, and wrap up phases. You cannot be adequately prepared for both.
I used to be in defense contracting and used to make deliveries if we were late on some finished goods. I remember spending two days machining parts, assembling, testing, painting, and then I would kick the tires and go, landing @ rural virginia airports at the midnight hours where the customer was waiting. One strip had no lighting. We had the guy park his truck shining his lights down the strip so we knew it's threshold. I took off in a Baron one night after getting a phone call that a circuit board had failed in a component we provided. I had to have a new board there in three hours. I didn't check the weather, filed in the air, and almost ran out of fuel on approach to land. The look on the fuel guy's face when we topped off to leave was scary. You do dumb things when trying to make people happy, and that's life in politics.
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posted on
04/13/2011 12:18:36 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
To: blackdog
“Or how about the C5 transport plane belonging to the Airforce that landed at Newburgh airport in New York instead of the airbase in Poughkipsee? They had to dismantle the wings and truck it out because it was too short of a runway.”
What airbase in Po’keepsie? There ain’t none.
Do you mean Griffis in Rome, NY?
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posted on
04/13/2011 12:21:15 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(We live two lives, the life we learn and the life we live with after that.)
To: headstamp 2
Or how about the C5 transport plane belonging to the Airforce that landed at Newburgh airport in New York instead of the airbase in Poughkipsee? You might have that backward. Newburgh airport used to be Stewart AFB...and Poughkeepsie might be where the C-5 landed.
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posted on
04/13/2011 12:29:27 PM PDT
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
To: headstamp 2
Beacon Newbergh area. Airports are about 10 miles apart. Same runway orientation. And yes there is an air base there.
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posted on
04/13/2011 12:30:17 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
To: okie01
Yep, Stewart! Is it closed?
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posted on
04/13/2011 12:31:18 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
To: headstamp 2
Newburgh Airport is the former Stewart AFB. It has a 12,000’ runway and an ANG unit that flies C-5s. I suspect there may be some confusion here.
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posted on
04/13/2011 12:40:29 PM PDT
by
Grut
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