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Title: FAA Update on Nine O Nine
Post by: donna43 on March 25, 2020, 07:33:31 PM
https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-faa-says-collings-foundation-cannot-carry-passengers-20200325-twq2alj7i5gztllf6h4p22mjyi-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3zjGlHbIcH234Ucsb1HNjgSGCZ4cZs3ITp9fn9tW8YkvLtliXwLgE5HSs
Title: Re: FAA Update on Nine O Nine
Post by: Shuffler on March 25, 2020, 07:51:23 PM
Well there you go. Getting careless cost lives.
Title: Re: FAA Update on Nine O Nine
Post by: Busher on March 25, 2020, 08:35:43 PM
Sad examples in history:

Buddy Holly
Richie Valens
The Big Bopper
Ricky Nelson
Randy Rhodes
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Aaliyah
Jim Croce

if you feel the need to go for an airplane ride, fly with the professionals.
Title: Re: FAA Update on Nine O Nine
Post by: Oldman731 on March 25, 2020, 09:57:21 PM
if you feel the need to go for an airplane ride, fly with the professionals.

(*throws tomato at Busher*)

https://player.vimeo.com/video/65224587

The red one is my old Saratoga.  8243A.

- oldman (who makes a brief appearance at about 8:00)
Title: Re: FAA Update on Nine O Nine
Post by: donna43 on March 26, 2020, 01:12:43 AM
Sad examples in history:

Buddy Holly
Richie Valens
The Big Bopper
Ricky Nelson
Randy Rhodes
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Aaliyah
Jim Croce
Audie Murphy
if you feel the need to go for an airplane ride, fly with the professionals.
Title: Re: FAA Update on Nine O Nine
Post by: Busher on March 26, 2020, 09:34:19 AM
(*throws tomato at Busher*)

https://player.vimeo.com/video/65224587

The red one is my old Saratoga.  8243A.

- oldman (who makes a brief appearance at about 8:00)

I am happy for you that you were successful enough to own and operate a private airplane. My comment was not meant as a slight to you or anyone else in the General Aviation Community.
You might be thrilled to take a flight in a vintage B17 but I am content to watch you enjoy that ride from the ground.... I am a retired 30,000 +hrs airline pilot.
Title: Re: FAA Update on Nine O Nine
Post by: Shuffler on March 26, 2020, 11:24:44 AM
I am happy for you that you were successful enough to own and operate a private airplane. My comment was not meant as a slight to you or anyone else in the General Aviation Community.
You might be thrilled to take a flight in a vintage B17 but I am content to watch you enjoy that ride from the ground.... I am a retired 30,000 +hrs airline pilot.

Even though I can well afford it, I have always watched from the ground also.
Title: Re: FAA Update on Nine O Nine
Post by: DaddyAce on April 14, 2020, 01:37:10 PM
Well it seems like I was lucky; My sons and I all had a ride in the B-24, and I had an hour of flight instruction in the TF-51D.
Title: Re: FAA Update on Nine O Nine
Post by: Trev95 on April 14, 2020, 05:05:29 PM
Its crazy, I went up on Nine O Nine a few months before the crash.   This was from my flight on Nine O Nine looking over the gulf of mexico Florida.




(https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/28515981_1835696193130988_375909493830328491_o.jpg?_nc_cat=104&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=MKL9AYT2ukEAX8GvGwL&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=3f6cef1d9cd62361cf77c6239ca8f69e&oe=5EBA8A60)
Title: Re: FAA Update on Nine O Nine
Post by: Nefarious on April 15, 2020, 09:14:49 PM
Flew on the Aluminum Overcast in 2015, I don't regret it.
Title: Re: FAA Update on Nine O Nine
Post by: Bodhi on May 09, 2020, 06:57:58 PM
That is a true shame for a group dedicated to keeping history alive.  It's likely going to cost some serious coin in litigation on the back end.

Title: Re: FAA Update on Nine O Nine
Post by: Brooke on May 25, 2020, 02:40:48 PM
It's a horrible tragedy all the way around.