Monday February 07, 2005

Airplane wrecks Spend some time researching local aviation disasters. There's something very emotional about standing on the site of an aviation disaster. It's amazing how little can be left of a large airliner that hits the ground at 200 mph. The fragility of those craft is something to respect. The biggest bay-area disaster was the United DC-6 that hit Tolman Peak near Fremont in the 60's. I was up there but couldn't find any trace. I have 2 friends that have crashed their aircraft, a third who died. Dave used his parachute over Altamont, broke a few vertibrae. Lynn stall-spun on the test flight of an experimental racer. Wayne was filming a movie and turned his ag-cat into the wrong canyon. Several other friends have landing-light souveniers in their hangars. Bill cartwheeled spectacularly at the Moffet show last year and walked away from it (god bless Curtis Pitts). My closest call was aileron flutter over TCY that broke the wing-attach, bent 2 pushrods, and cracked 2 spars. Good thing the runway was 3000 ft away ;-) ( Feb 07 2005, 09:00:54 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [2]

In the beginning So here we go with our first shot at blogging....Hmmm I don't feel any different. ( Feb 07 2005, 08:56:31 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [0]