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   Don Homuth to LiveFromTheClocktower@gfy.com   
   Re: Hillsboro Air Show   
   16 Nov 06 14:54:30   
   
   XPost: rec.aviation.piloting, or.politics   
   From: dhomuth1@comcast.net   
      
   On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:29:22 -0800, "gatt"   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"lein"  wrote in message   
   >news:1163710554.252650.123390@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...   
   >   
   >> Hell, you might as well have an airshow.  If you are going to allow   
   >> hobbiest Homer fly his Piper in and out of the airport, you might as   
   >> well allow a highly train fighter pilot zip around in his well   
   >> maintained jet.   
   >   
   >Yep, except it wasn't a "highly trained fighter pilot" in a "well-maintained   
   >jet" that caused the ruckus.  And, he wasn't zipping around.  He was on the   
   >downwind leg trying to return to the airfield.   
      
   Only after the power loss problem that caused him to try to return, so   
   he could land upwind.   
      
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