There has been another airshow tragedy in the US, with the pilot of a vintage plane dying in a crash in West Virginia. The tragedy comes less than 24 hours after a plane hit spectators at the Reno Air Races in Nevada with the loss of ten lives.
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Roberta Kelly19.09.2011 12:14
Absurdities and atrocities, same ole story as Voltaire already warned.
Let us see now, how the American "culture" prototypes disappear?
Th ere is no real culture in the U.S. Culture takes a long-long time as the countries all know who have awakened to the idea THAT America was going to be a new thought form to swallow, hook-line-sinker all earthling trouts.
So must demonstrate how UN cultured the US is, and where does all the new terror arrive in such fine tuned patterns, as always.
Human s are not becoming higher in cultured pearls of ideas, clearly why in the mind's decision would constant tragedy be sold other than by the lost.
The Reno Air Races are held out in the desert, about 30-45 minutes out of town, because the races need a lot of area for the course. They fly at an old disused air force base and have done so for 4 decades. The planes that fly around that course are not museum pieces but are souped up hot-rods based on P51s from World War II. The owners of those planes pour millions of dollars into rebuilding them with new parts and electronics and much bigger engines. The spectators go to watch the races because they are poetry in the air. It is a magnificent sight from the bleachers to see those planes growling down the runway in front of you, maybe 50 to 100 feet in the air - or less. My father used to work at the races and he recalls one of them coming back to the "pits" for refueling and it had bits of sagebrush in its airscoop. The races are dangerous to fly, but until now have not been for the spectators. I think this tragedy is a fluke, not a trend.. My prayers are for the families of the dead, but I hope this does not shut down the races.
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Roberta Kelly 19.09.2011 12:14
Undo
Nay Lin Maung 18.09.2011 22:01
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MEJanssen (unregistered) 18.09.2011 16:04
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