Re: ..OT: blue paint bucket toss, was: [Flightgear-devel] [OT]Angry rant: the end of david@megginson.com

2003-08-29 Thread Tony Peden
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 10:04, Matthew Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 04:19, Tony Peden wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 14:08, David Megginson wrote: Matthew Johnson writes: Good point, something goes wrong on a commercial airliner very few, if anyone ever gets out alive...

Re: ..OT: blue paint bucket toss, was: [Flightgear-devel] [OT]Angry rant: the end of david@megginson.com

2003-08-27 Thread Tony Peden
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 14:08, David Megginson wrote: Matthew Johnson writes: Good point, something goes wrong on a commercial airliner very few, if anyone ever gets out alive... Not at all. Things go wrong in airliners flown by scheduled carriers all the time, and usually no one

Re: ..OT: blue paint bucket toss, was: [Flightgear-devel][OT] Angry rant: the end of david@megginson.com

2003-08-27 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 01:25, Matevz Jekovec wrote: Not at all. Things go wrong in airliners flown by scheduled carriers all the time, and usually no one suffers anything more than stress from a delay or rerouting. Injuries and fatalities are very rare in scheduled airline incidents or

Re: ..OT: blue paint bucket toss, was: [Flightgear-devel] [OT]Angry rant: the end of david@megginson.com

2003-08-27 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 04:19, Tony Peden wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 14:08, David Megginson wrote: Matthew Johnson writes: Good point, something goes wrong on a commercial airliner very few, if anyone ever gets out alive... Not at all. Things go wrong in airliners flown by

Re: ..OT: blue paint bucket toss, was: [Flightgear-devel][OT] Angry rant: the end of david@megginson.com

2003-08-27 Thread David Megginson
Matthew Johnson writes: Yes, if you see Bruce Willis on the plane ask to leave :). I should have phrased my thoughts a little better, any major failure on a commercial airline tends to result in heavy loss of life...Although I'd think there are far less id10t's in the air compared to

Re: ..OT: blue paint bucket toss, was: [Flightgear-devel] [OT]Angry rant: the end of david@megginson.com

2003-08-26 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 11:11, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Arnt Karlsen writes: On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:09:51 -0500, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ..to put it short: picture yourself on your single seat bike going full bore on the freeway just like

Re: ..OT: blue paint bucket toss, was: [Flightgear-devel] [OT]Angry rant: the end of david@megginson.com

2003-08-26 Thread David Megginson
Matthew Johnson writes: Good point, something goes wrong on a commercial airliner very few, if anyone ever gets out alive... Not at all. Things go wrong in airliners flown by scheduled carriers all the time, and usually no one suffers anything more than stress from a delay or rerouting.