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KB2VXA > TODAY 04.08.15 12:42l 54 Lines 2470 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 7625_VK6ZRT
Read: GUEST
Subj: Re: N0KFQ > airport improvements
Path: IW8PGT<CX2SA<N0KFQ<VK6ZRT
Sent: 150804/1009Z @:VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC #:7625 [Boyanup] $:7625_VK6ZRT
From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : TODAY@WW
Hi K.O. and lurkers,
"Wow! My last commercial flight was in 1985... I think I shall keep it
that way."
Afraid of getting hit by lightning or hammered into the ground by a
microburst? (;->) When a plane gets hit by lightning passengers and crew
don't even know it, the current passes harmlessly around them throught the
metal airframe and fuselage. Riding in the cockpit through a thunderstorm may
be scary to someone unfamiliar, sometimes St. Elmo's Fire, an electrical
discharge is seen on the windscreens like a dancing spider web. Microbursts
are very rare to begin with and wind shear detectors are hard to ignore.
The bottom line is flying is still the safest way to travel having the lowest
accident rate per passenger-mile so when riding Amcrash your chances of
getting killed go way up. For them four hours late is ahead of scedule so
plan your trip accordingly, in winter four days stuck in snow is not unheard
of.
The line under the bottom line is your remark was sarcasm as is my second
paragraph, however it's based on pictures of stuck Amtrak trains getting dug
out in my computer archives. (heh heh heh)
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like Route 22."
Jean Shepherd K2ORS (SK) & WOR radio personality
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Message timed by NIST: 04-Aug-2015 at 10:09 GMT
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