Author Topic: Steve Fossett is Missing... (Read 639 times)

Furball · « **on:** September 04, 2007, 01:02:19 PM »

Hope he turns up okay

Yeager · « **Reply #1 on:** September 04, 2007, 01:04:50 PM »

who dat?

Ripsnort · « **Reply #2 on:** September 04, 2007, 01:06:27 PM »

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Originally posted by Yeager
who dat?

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20070904/NEWS01/70904007

Furball · « **Reply #3 on:** September 04, 2007, 01:12:34 PM »

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Originally posted by Yeager
who dat?

pfft.

Yeager · « **Reply #4 on:** September 04, 2007, 01:59:46 PM »

Thought the name sounded familiar. At first I confused him with steve hackett (I know...I know...."who dat?"). Oh well, life is a crap shoot. Hope the guy is ok.

Chairboy · « **Reply #5 on:** September 04, 2007, 02:32:03 PM »

Ditto. Took off in his Bellanca and didn't arrive when planned, hope he's well. I imagine Nevada can be a crummy place to go down in terms of heat/dehydration if he's injured.

Nilsen · « **Reply #6 on:** September 04, 2007, 02:56:26 PM »

Hope for his familys sake that he gets back safe.

Personally tho i dont feel anything when some risktakers gets lost or heads upstairs before his time. They know the risks and im sure that its the way some of them really wants to go

Chairboy · « **Reply #7 on:** September 04, 2007, 03:01:53 PM »

Nilsen, he wasn't making an attempt at orbit or mach + flight in his Bellanca, he was just using it to fly from point A to point B.

Or do you argue that someone who takes a risk at any point in their life automatically forfeits it later on from even the most prosaic causes?

If a skydiver is shot by a mugger a year after his jump, you wouldn't feel anything because he somehow brought it on himself?

Nilsen · « **Reply #8 on:** September 04, 2007, 03:34:37 PM »

No, but Fosset is an adventurer that i dont know personally or look up to so i cant honestly say i really care any more than if an average man flips his car and dies. There is no thread started for every other fatality in the world and that is what this is (if he has indeed died) to me.

So i say... its really sad for his family and friends but thats really it.

68Wooley · « **Reply #9 on:** September 04, 2007, 03:43:18 PM »

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Originally posted by Nilsen
No, but Fosset is an adventurer that i dont know personally or look up to so i cant honestly say i really care any more than if an average man flips his car and dies. There is no thread started for every other fatality in the world and that is what this is (if he has indeed died) to me.

So i say... its really sad for his family and friends but thats really it.

I'd say a thread about the possible loss of a multi-record holding aviator on an aviation themed bbs is probably appropriate.

I was in Arizona over the weekend and the weather is really not conducive to long term survival out there right now. It is very, very hot.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #10 on:** September 04, 2007, 03:47:14 PM »

He bought and rebuilt Craig Breedlove's Spirit of America 3 and was a few weeks away from running at Bonneville...

Nilsen · « **Reply #11 on:** September 04, 2007, 03:51:11 PM »

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Originally posted by 68Wooley
I'd say a thread about the possible loss of a multi-record holding aviator on an aviation themed bbs is probably appropriate.

I was in Arizona over the weekend and the weather is really not conducive to long term survival out there right now. It is very, very hot.

Ofcourse it is. Im just sayin it is no more or less tragic than any other missing person.

rpm · « **Reply #12 on:** September 04, 2007, 06:05:56 PM »

Be careful Nils. They are moments away from branding you as a librul because you are not running with the herd.

SteveBailey · « **Reply #13 on:** September 04, 2007, 06:08:36 PM »

Camille Cleverley is missing. There's a very good chance she has suffered a fate worse than Steve Fossett. Does she have a thread?

SoulTakr · « **Reply #14 on:** September 04, 2007, 06:13:31 PM »

I am wonderin why no flight plan was filed. Of course that was just on the news and holds no concrete value, but if true...why not.