Brian, First, my sincere condolences to the Wright family.
I am president of a local non-profit ballroom dance association. I was criticized recently for allowing announcements to be made at dances by people who were selling something for money. I am not paid and have no financial interest in any of the products or services in question. My reply was that a certain person who owns the building where we dance is making money renting us space. Another person is paid to be our D.J. A third person makes money giving dance lessons. A fourth person makes money selling dance shoes. Now, if all of these fine decent folks did something else for a living and made no money off ballroom dancing; then my wife and I would not know how to dance and there would be no place in town to do so anyway. I believe the same principle applies to things in the aviation world. I am a capitalist with no apologies for free enterprise. It makes our modern lifestyle possible. Anyone in business who is successful and offers a good product or service is going to have pride in what they have to offer and will naturally mention it in conversation. This list constantly discusses name brand products, companies that sell things, people who offer services. I see this as mutually beneficial to all concerned. Helps with a wide variety of things like safety, keeping costs down and telling each other where to find needed things. The article quoted below did not seem overly commercial to me and certainly evidenced genuine remorse over the accident and tragic loss of life. I guess it is clearly possible for someone to genuinely be offended by something when the other person sincerely meant no offense. My own take was not that the article was any grab for money as much as a genuine desire to increase safety and prevent future loss of life. Respectfully, Dean Allen --- Brian Kraut <[email protected]> wrote: > I normally don't stir things up on mailing lists, but am I the only one > that is offended by this very blatant use of someone's tragic death only > five days ago to advertise a service? The early reports of the crash > that I have seen so far don't even hint at a flutter problem. This > comes from a mailing list from Martin Hollmann,s company. > > Very sad to hear of this crash. I have been following the progress on > that plane for a while and it was one of the most beautiful planes I > have ever see. James Wright obviously poured his heart and soul into it > and it is a shame to see him and the plane gone. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Aviation News > Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 10:54:56 -0700 > From: Aircraft Designs, Inc. <[email protected]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > To: List Member <[email protected]> > > > > > NEWS RELEASE 2.4 August 2003 > Aircraft Designs, Inc. > > Hughes H-1B Racer crash could most likely have been avoided. > It is with great sadness that I heard about the death of James Wright, a > tall and friendly aviator who I had gotten to know. He crashed on August > 4th in his H-1B Racer on the way back from Oshkosh. I had talked to Jim > many times about performing a flutter analysis on his racer and he was > very interested. The aircraft had heavy, fabric covered control surfaces > which were not mass balanced and it would have been very prudent to find > out what the critical flutter speed is. When I did not hear from Jim, I > had a terrible feeling that he would die in his beautiful aircraft. In > retrospect, the $4,000 that I charge to perform this valuable service > would have been worth it. For more information see > www.wrightools.com/hughes/ <http://www.wrightools.com/hughes/> > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
