Merry Christmas

[M Towsley]

Re: Merry Christmas

Kevin,

I agree. George is a little more north-central Illinois than me and I haven't seen that color for awhile, either.

[Rick Hadley]

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Merry Christmas from snowy Iowa, where unfortunately the sky is still the same color as the ground.

[Hank Jarrett]

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Don't know if this will get out from here in south east Virginia. We had 8 1/2" of snow by 11:30 this morning and it is beyond a foot now at 5:00 pm. Deepest snow I have seen here EVER (been here 35 years, it looks like Kansas).
Merry Christmas to all and hope the next one is our usual brown, not white. Us poor southerners don't have a clue what to do in snow!
Hank

[Forrest Barber]

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I too have been busy with snow stuff ; NOTHING like some people had to endure, yes Tony L sent me pctures of the airport, what a shame....how high did it get in the hangars ?

[Hank Jarrett]

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Official depth ended up 14.5". Two behind the all time record in the 1800s! Just got through digging out the car and a path to the mailbox with a rake and a garden spade. Time to think about moving further south.
Hank

Like St. Maarten!

[cvavon]

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Hank


Plenty of hanger space hear we only got about 1 in and will be 60deg. wednesday house prices are very reasonable NO STATE INCOME TAX PROPERTY TAXES ARN'T BAD car tags are 24.00 dollars sails tax is 9-75% come see us Chuck

[Hank Jarrett]

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Tennessee and Texas could be tempting. Wonder where the Taylorcraft factory will finally land. Maybe I could get a job there. NASA sure isn't doing anything. The budget extension REQUIRES them to spend the funds on last years programs at the rate they did last year and they are not allowed to spend on anything new. They have to fund Ares 1, which is canceled, and CAN'T fund the new launch system, which is our last chance to have our own launcher to ISS and beyond. If we don't get a Shuttle derived launch system before the shuttle infrastructure is gone we have to start from scratch.
INCREDIBLE WASTE. Don't you just LOVE lame duck sessions.
And we thought Taylorcraft was badly managed! Congress, the opposite of progress.
Hank

[flyguy]

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Yeah, made me ill when they threw away the Saturn booster. Best boost rocket ever built anywhere IMO.
DC

[Hank Jarrett]

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The Saturn and the F-1 engines were great for their day, but extremely expensive. The throw away derivative of the Space Shuttle Main Engine is incredible. VERY low cost per flight and should be very reliable.
The root problem is we throw away all of the lessons learned and start over with the retirement of each new system. We didn't keep any of the industrial facilities or experience when we built Shuttle. We may as well have started from scratch. That wasting of corporate knowledge and industrial capacity is one of the reasons Shuttle was SO EXPENSIVE to operate. It did things nothing else could, but it never met its economy goals.
And we are setting ourselves up to do it all again! It looks like up to 80% of Kennedy Space Facility staff will be laid off because we can't keep them till the next launch system gets here. All because we wasted so much time deciding what to build next. What did they finally choose? It looks like the basic system they decided should follow Shuttle when Shuttle was first deployed. Congress decided they could design the replacement system better than the rocket scientists (after all, THEY knew which districts the components should be built in!)

Hank

This should really be in the humor and rants section!

[Hank Jarrett]

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Are we sure NASA hasn't been managing Taylorcraft every time it comes back?
Hank

[crispy critter]

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Are we sure NASA hasn't been managing Taylorcraft every time it comes back?
Hank

Impossible....NASA is still in business.

[Mark Julicher]

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I too ahve been busy with snow stuff ; NOTHING like some people had to endure, yes Tony L sent me pctures of the airport, what a shame....how high did it get in the hangars.

Forrest,
I'm not there as an eye witness, but it looks like about 5 feet deep at mid-field and 10 feet deep at the west end. Amazing photos. Does anyone have a Taylorcraft Bilge Pump? TonyL needs it.

[M Towsley]

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OMG, that is terrible. Just look at the parking ramp on the dry end...

Mark, where did you pull that photo from, are there more?

[Forrest Barber]

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Tony sent me about five of them.... over at airport may post this afternoon. There are many horror stories coming in from all over US.
I too have been thinking about moving to Winter Haven , get up , get in golf cart ; drive to front porch ; bs, go fly, instruct a wee bit, swim , keep tan lines in bounds, eat some dead animal carcass , go fishing, eat some fish, drink some beer , go home, next day repeat at Brown's Seaplane Base
Any body want at airport in NE Ohio?? OR part of one?

[TonyL]

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Marty -the west side of the runway is submerged approximately 10 to 12 ft. My hangar is in the middle of the runway. that was submerged over 4ft. yesterday and today, my hangar is submerged 3 ft. I believe picasa web.google.com/CoronaAirportPilotsAssociation has many pictures. Most airplanes are in city streets, park and Industrial parking lots.

Sounds great about that airport, NE Ohio. May have to shovel some snow and cut the Ice after that blizzard. When I fly from west to east, one of the beauty sites is the way the terrain turns green from texas East to the coast.
TonyL