Posted on 04/20/2006 11:09:00 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
Breaking on CNN web page from AP report.
It proves that that the english language is not mathematically precise, and different people can read things in different ways. When talking of Crossfields death, and saying that you'd never ride in small airplanes with amateurs, that's implying that Crossfield and every other small airplane pilot (like me) is am amateur. Whether intentional or not, your original comment was insulting to Crossfield and anyone who flies General Aviation aircraft.
The fact that another poster reacted as I did should be plenty enough confirmation that despite your good intentions toward Crossfield and his pilot status, you failed.
Yes I failed. Will you ever forgive me?
;-)
Well, actually, God and our own circumstances made us mortals. Scott and Chuck just remind us of it by comparison to them, who will both be immortal, at least in memory.
"Legendary Pilot Killed in Crash" by Allison Gatlin
http://www.avpress.com/n/21/0421_s1.hts
Thanks
Thank you for disparaging my field of interest.
Usually it is a single engine (piston) with no TAI (thermal anti ice) and no cabin pressurization, oxygen if there is limited.
So don't fly in icing conditions, and don't fly above 12,500 feet.
So if you get into bad weather you can rarely fly above it or around it and if there are mountains etc you might not be able to fly below it either.
So land, or turn around.
Criticisims like this are like saying you'd never go on a private boat because it can't handle hurricanes, has no roof to keep out rain, no heater or air conditioning, and not enough range to cross the atlantic. You don't *use* a private boat in those conditions, just like you don't fly a private aircraft in conditions it's not meant to be in.
Crossfield possibly broke that rule in flying into a thunderstorm. Which would take out many large aircraft too, if they fly into the severe areas. Note the L-1011 that crashed in the microburst at DFW several years ago.
Stuff happens. He flew constantly until he was 84 before getting into trouble he couldn't or didn't get out of.
You pick a funny thread to jump into and disparage flying in aircraft that many of us own.
Sad that Mr. Yeager could not keep his mouth shut in respect for Mr. Crossfield's family.
Yeager suggests it's Crossfield's own fault he was killed in plane crash
(Ranger, GA-AP) April 21, 2006 - They were bitter rivals as they beat each other's records as test pilots in the 1950s. And now, after the death of pilot Scott Crossfield in the crash of his own private plane this week, fellow test-pilot Chuck Yeager is getting in some more digs.
Yeager says he's "sure sorry to hear" about Crossfield's death.
But the first man to break the sound barrier says "complacency" seems to have led to the accident. Yeager says Crossfield often flew in bad weather and sometimes "exceeded his capability and got in trouble."
Yeager was the first to pass the speed of sound in 1947. In 1953, Crossfield flew twice that fast, at Mach Two. That didn't sit well with his rival Yeager, who went out and topped him again a few weeks later.
Yeager wrote in his autobiography that Crossfield was "among the most arrogant" pilots he'd ever met.
Crossfield's body was found in wreckage Thursday in mountains about 50 miles from Atlanta. The 84-year-old's single-engine plane dropped off radar with thunderstorms in the area.
"You pick a funny thread to jump into and disparage flying in aircraft that many of us own."
Me thinks some don't quite "get it" about flyers.
"The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stand for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructible." -Richard Bach 'Nothing by Chance' 1963
http://www.onesixright.com/video/aerials.html
LOL.
Ok. I give up....
Good boy!
You will be rewarded in heaven.
I have the DVD 16R and LOVE it!
Have you seen the whole thing?
My plan is to order it from King or Sportys so Im entered in the airplane giveaway contest. ;)
Well, I was just speaking in aviation terms, not in human terms, but, yes, they will be legions.
After Crossville's, crash this week, they renamed the class 06 Crossville.
At the graduation ceremonies yesterday, the class had a video tribute to Crossville. Very moving.
... urgh, not enough coffee yet, not Crossville, CROSSFIELD. Sorry.
Actually, my reply is to all of you...well, all I read...I am one of Scott's daughter's...and reading your comments made me laugh as well as cry.... thanks! Especially the laugh part....
As Daddy-O would say...Carry on.
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