GuliblGuy

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Geeze.  Reading up on the Sioux City crash.  Engine goes out, and takes out the hydraulics.  Sounds like they had three people in the cockpit, one a passenger that had flight experience to land that sucker.  
 
This one is a compilation of like news and other coverage.
 

My family has been in aviation for decades. My grandfather and his brother were employees of Pitcairn Aviation, one of the precursor companies of Eastern Air Lines. When I visited Uncle Ben's place outside Atlanta, he had a framed letter signed by Eddie Rickenbacker (then president of Eastern) on company stationery thanking him for his contributions to the birth and growth of the airline. He is in the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame. When he passed away, he was buried in a plot specially selected because it overlooks the runways at Atlanta-Hartsfield International Airport. My father told me that his Uncle Ben had a bit of a wild streak. According to my father, Uncle Ben flew a Curtiss Jenny under the Main Street Bridge in Jacksonville - inverted.
 
This is the stock that I come from.
 
My Uncle Joe (who is still living in San Antonio, well into his 90s) was a B-24 copilot during World War II, flying bombing raids over Germany. He served as a flight crew inspector for the FAA for many years based out of Miami. When he retired, US Air offered him a job as a vice president, but he didn't want to move to DC, where the job would have been located.
 
My father was in the Army Air Corps during World War II, assigned to the Alaskan Command, with his outfit ferrying aircraft to the Russians to fight the Germans on the Eastern Front. He served in the Korean War after coming back (stationed in Japan), and was Electric Shop Chief for the Florida Air National Guard until his retirement. During his career there he worked on the P-51, F-80, F-86, T-33, F-102 and F-106. Some of my fondest memories of youth were of sitting under the wing of an F-102 on the tarmac at Imeson Airport in Jacksonville with a cold Sprite in a glass bottle. It was while they were at this base that my father worked on the Douglas C-47 that I mentioned in an earlier thread, the one that is now preserved at the Camp Blanding Museum in Florida.
 
My cousin Paul (Uncle Joe's boy) served in the Air Force and then flew for Delta. He retired about a month ago. He flew Lockheed L-1011s and then Boeing 737-800s (that I know of - he may have served on other types). During his time in the L-1011, one of the routes he flew was ATL-DFW. He was flying that route when the Delta L-1011 arriving from ATL crashed at DFW due to wind shear. It took about three days for me to find out that Paul wasn't the captain. The airline told us nothing. When I finally reached him, he said "I was at the Braves game that night."
 
I probably would have been a pilot myself, but I developed myopia during my teenage years. This was long before lasik surgery and the rule was that your vision had to be 20/20 uncorrected or else they wouldn't let you fly. My cousin Paul essentially lived the life that I had picked out for myself. My aviation history has been purely as a passenger, but the passion for flight has never dimmed. I am perfectly content with a day of plane spotting, especially at busy airports with a lot of international traffic. Probably my best day of spotting ever took place at MIA in 1976.

Recently saw a documentary on United flight 232 that crash-landed in Sioux City. 
 
This was the flight where they lost all flight controls and had to steer by independently controlling engine thrust.  Crash-landed in Sioux City overspeed and off course, into a ball of flames, and yet 185 people made it out alive. 
 
Incredible.

Because he gave the "don't score a run sign" which I have to admit is a bold strategy.

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Maybe it's time to get another one.
 
Fritz That's Too

We should be able to cover a bunch of new ground in this thread.

So I guess we aren't selling Hamilton high. Or are we...?

watch a Josh Hamilton at bat from the 2014 ALCS

Someone ask Pettis...he's black.

Cuz

Somewhere in Asia there is a website dedicated to the US products terribly translated to Mandarin or Japanese.

That's a clown clown, bro.

The discussion really should begin and end with Oliver. While it's true that he has the benefit of being able to use a week's worth of material for his shows thus far, he absolutely kills it and he was wonderful when he was on The Daily Show.

Moving is a giant pain in the ass

Moving is a giant pain in the ass

15 of 100      
 
Thousands of Bluebells bloom in a forest near Halle, south of Brussels, April 15, 2014.

Dr. Dreidel?

So you're saying there's a chance!!

I guess that's why they call it the blues.