Yes - very good point. My interest is homebuilt h/c and ...

Post #71,928 by dmarker 1/1/03 9:37:05 PM Reply	Yes - very good point. My interest is homebuilt h/c and ... homebuilt helicopters are not really practical or possible in today's China - even here in HK, although we keep hearing that the authorities are expected to relax regs. The US is the most flexible nation I know of re 'Experimental' class aircraft. I have always envied you guys living there for your freedom to 'rise to glory' and or 'plummet to hell' in comparative freedom. Even in Australia the authorities are bloody mindedly tough on what constitutes experimental craft & what one can do with them. Cheers Doug Marker
Post #71,942 by rcareaga 1/1/03 10:43:05 PM Reply	Re: Yes - very good point. My interest is homebuilt h/c and The US is the most flexible nation I know of re 'Experimental' class aircraft. I have always envied you guys living there for your freedom to 'rise to glory' and or 'plummet to hell' in comparative freedom. And with this policy alone the United States has gone a long way toward atoning for its infliction of John Denver's music upon the world. cordially, "Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
Post #71,944 by dmarker 1/1/03 11:02:29 PM Reply	OOOooooo that was below the belt <grin> But John did make a hellova big splash !!! (twice in his liftime)<grin> Cheers Doug Marker (ya gotta be nutz to fly in a 2nd hand cannard wing homebuilt)
Post #71,945 by Meerkat 1/1/03 11:27:31 PM Reply	Kinda OT: Insert tasteless joke here... How is John Denver's music like his aircraft? It's ultra-light, and down to earth. John. Busy lad.
Post #71,947 by rcareaga 1/1/03 11:41:55 PM Reply	Re: Kinda OT: Insert tasteless joke here... or (from about twenty years ago) -- "Did you hear about Jessica Savitch? She finally became an anchorwoman." cordially, "Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
Post #71,953 by dmarker 1/2/03 12:26:50 AM 1/2/03 12:33:35 AM Reply	Don't know of her - was she somone who wouldn't let go of a fishing story when common sense dictated otherwise ? Or did she stumble into a different story that was just too deep and mysterious ? Cheers Doug (Hmmmmmm - speedcar riding in muddy canals never did catch on up north - at least them florida swamp buggies are build for it and when ya do flip there is usually someone to pull you out) Edited by dmarker Jan. 2, 2003, 12:33:35 AM EST Expand All History
Post #71,956 by rcareaga 1/2/03 12:47:01 AM Reply	sic transit gloria mundi! Jessica Savitch (2/1/47 - 10/23/83) was an ambitious young newswoman being groomed for stardom (and, according to some detractors, showing signs of maxing out her Peter Principle early on--David Brinkley called her "the dumbest woman I have ever met"--but she was very easy on the eyes) in the latter 1970s. NBC was advancing her rapidly, but her behavior on and off the set was becoming a tad erratic, most notoriously when she had to go on air unexpectedly about three weeks before her death, and delivered her lines to the Teeming Millions apparently somewhat the worse for exotic alkaloids. After dining out one evening later that month she and her date (the latter driving) took a wrong turn in inclement weather and drove into a canal, drowning them both--hence "anchorwoman." Maybe you'd have to have been there... cordially, "Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
Post #71,949 by Ashton 1/1/03 11:49:08 PM Reply	Then there's Rod McKuen - for complete masslessness: Listen to the Warm But at least it wasn't sung.. But let us be charitable - he's gettin a bit old and: he laughed all the way to the bank, and still is in 'demand' for appearances. :-) (And I'd take both in pref. to a KennyG or a Yanni, thankyouverymuch..) A. Critic

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