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1. 01:43 AM - Redstar Feb 15th (Drew Blahnick)
2. 06:00 PM - Re: STS-107 (YakL1@aol.com)
3. 06:46 PM - Re: STS-107 (cjpilot710@aol.com)
4. 07:05 PM - Florida in the CJ (dabear)
5. 08:10 PM - Re: Florida in the CJ (Robert Mortara)
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| Subject: | Redstar Feb 15th |
--> Yak-List message posted by: "Drew Blahnick" <aapilot@adelphia.net>
Folks,
We are taking a few dedicated weeks to finish off www.allredstar.com for a February
15th opening, something that has been a priority project since last year
when it was first mentioned at the May event. Please visit the site banner page
now and bookmark it, we will be looking forward to user comments when it opens
on the 15th.
It is fully functional to allow:
1. Users (you) to upload any pictures, articles or documents directly through the
website. The site is primarily an information portal and takes on an online
magazine format. In fact, much of the web content relies on members submissions,
not on a webmaster or editor.
2. Online Website Registration: Placing members in an international clickable
online locator service. Click in to a region, state or country and quickly locate
members.
3. Online national/regional fly-in registration with online payment where required
(this supports all functions, if you want a fly-in "Smalltown Indiana", the
website will support your advertising and event registration requirements)
4. Event, Squadron and Member galleries with online photo submission capability.
Yes, after reminding me at least 900 times since Red Star that the site has
to have a gallery, we've put up more than one to cork those food-holes.
5. Individual squadron home page imbedded in the site. We've posted information
on forming a local squadron, suggested by-laws, etc.
6. Service, Repair and Part locator (more established service centers dedicated
to our aircraft). If you are a service provider, simply submit info online at
the site.
7. An "Officers Club" where everything entertaining is posted from the official
CRUD rules to your IAC and other flight/event awards
8. A safety program designed after the NASA OSRS program; allowing pilots to share
their worst near-disasters or even minor "gotchas" with the community without
names or locations, eliminating self incrimination or public flogging - and
passing on valuable lessons.
9. An online store that will grow with time and allow members to post their aircraft
for sale: for the CJ drivers, we are currently working with Doug Sapp to
host his parts list to allow online ordering. After we've corrected all the
miss-spelled words you guys will surly locate and write me about, after all those
corrections are made, E-Commerce capability will be a major undertaking.
10. And of course, imbedded throughout the site is the typical humor and tongue-in-cheek
that can only come from pilots...
There is much more that is currently finished; the site is nearly 50 pages deep
and it will grow if "users use it" (you know, grammatically, I'm still in the
third grade).
I also want to thank Aeroshell, Oregon Aero, Cannon Aviation Insurance and American
Propeller for being the first to come forward as sponsors, just in case their
listening ;) And please, Aircraft Spruce and Flightsuits, if you're listening,
get off your a_ _ , return my calls, and get with the program.
Red Stars is undergoing application for a Qualified Not-For-Profit status, or at
least that's what my accountant is billing us for...
Drew Allen Blahnick
Owner/Pres
All Red Stars Inc
310.386.9181
www.allredstar.com
"Communism: Lousy Politics - Great Airplanes"
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--> Yak-List message posted by: YakL1@aol.com
Dear Jim:
My eyes are still a little moist, and I've got that "catch" in my throat
after reading your words. Thank you. God has our heroes in his hands, and
they will remain forever in our prayers and in our hearts. I thought you
might enjoy this story.
On 28 January 1986 I was visiting my parents in San Diego. Just after 0930
local time I was sitting on the sofa reading an old paperback science fiction
book I had purchased as a teenager. The book is "The Green Hills of Earth,"
written by Robert Heinlein and published first in 1941. It is a real "pulp"
anthology from the "early days" of US science fiction. I picked up the book
at random, and was just glancing at it as I drank my morning coffee. I was
reading a short story called "Ordeal in Space." Not much of a story really,
sort of a Post-traumatic Stress Disorder healing morality tale. The story
alludes to a choir which is (I think) singing something to the tune of the
Navy Hymn, or Prayer for Travelers. In any case, in the book, the choir
sings:
"---hear us when we pray to Thee
for those in peril on the sea.
Almighty ruler of us all
Whose power extends to great and small
Who guides the stars with steadfast law
Whose least creation fills with awe
Oh, grant Thy mercy and Thy grace
To those who venture into space."
I read those words, which are in italics in the text. At that very moment,
an announcer came on the TV which my Mother had on in the background,
announcing the loss of Space Shuttle Challenger.
It is perhaps the most eerie thing I have ever experienced. I still keep the
book in the drawer of my nightstand to remind me that God is in control of
all things. I now have a copy of your poem marking that page.
Those brave souls on board STS 107 will be missed forever by their families
on Earth. They are in the company of their brethren of STS 51-L, of an
unknown number of Soviet Cosmonauts, and of Lt. Col. Virgil Grissom, Lt. Col.
Edward White, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger Chaffee.
The naysayers and liberal diaper-wetters are already calling for an end to
manned space flight as "unnecessary and too risky". To me, this is like
spitting on the grave of those who have given their life in pursuit of a
magnificent dream.
Thanks again, Jim.
John Zecherle
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--> Yak-List message posted by: cjpilot710@aol.com
In a message dated 2/2/2003 9:01:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, YakL1@aol.com
writes:
John.
Thank you but please remember I did not write those words (Not that good a
poet).
But you wrote:
> Navy Hymn, or Prayer for Travelers. In any case, in the book, the choir
> sings:
>
> "---hear us when we pray to Thee
> for those in peril on the sea.
>
> Almighty ruler of us all
> Whose power extends to great and small
> Who guides the stars with steadfast law
> Whose least creation fills with awe
> Oh, grant Thy mercy and Thy grace
> To those who venture into space."
>
You have done me a very big service. I have been looking for that very
verus, from that very book for years. And until you came up with the title
AND the verus, I could not for the life of me find it nor remember where I
had seen it. I guess the word is sadly "serendipitous."
I'm sure all of us remember in detail the day Challenger died, like we will
this. I had flown my last trip with Pan Am and was walking into the UAL
training center in Denver for my first day of flight engineer ground school
with UAL. A woman was sobbing in the lobby with my new fellow employees
trying to console her.
This time, I heard the first report in another lobby, the FBO at Deland
airport. I was delivering the pilot and copilot seats that I had rebuilt for
the CAF's SNB/C-45 project, we're doing. It turns out that I was the one to
tell all the "Colonels" at the hangar, that we lost Columbia. They had been
standing outside waiting to hear the sonic boom and wondering why they hadn't
heard it when I drove up.
It was a sad day for all.
Good news is that my overhauled mags should be here this week. I'm getting
withdraw pains from not flying!
Jim Goolsby
cjpilot710@aol.com
386-467-3313 voice
386-467-3193 fax
386-503-9820cell
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety"
Benjamin Franklin 1759
"With my shield, or on it"
Trojan Warriors BC
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| Subject: | Florida in the CJ |
--> Yak-List message posted by: "dabear" <dabear@damned.org>
Well, I just got my CJ back from Annual. During the annual I had
Sean run heat into cabin. I already had the heat muff, but Sean's
team ran the ram tube from the gill shutters and then the tubes into
the cabin. The heat system is designed to be removed during the
summer. However with it turned on, it is like flying the CJ in
Florida. Heck with a few lava rocks and some water it could turn
the cockpit into a sauna. Now flying from the front or the back in
the middle of winter is enjoyable!
Looking forward to more flights in the cold air.
Al
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| Subject: | Florida in the CJ |
--> Yak-List message posted by: "Robert Mortara" <robmortara@robinhill.com>
I have been real cold flying here in Jersey.
Could you describe the system a little better and how its installed ?
do you have any pictures?
rob
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Subject: Yak-List: Florida in the CJ
--> Yak-List message posted by: "dabear" <dabear@damned.org>
Well, I just got my CJ back from Annual. During the annual I had
Sean run heat into cabin. I already had the heat muff, but Sean's
team ran the ram tube from the gill shutters and then the tubes into
the cabin. The heat system is designed to be removed during the
summer. However with it turned on, it is like flying the CJ in
Florida. Heck with a few lava rocks and some water it could turn
the cockpit into a sauna. Now flying from the front or the back in
the middle of winter is enjoyable!
Looking forward to more flights in the cold air.
Al
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