Posted for "Jim Nordin" <panelmaker@earthlink.net>:

> "newspapers always get everything exactly correct."
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> The "press" once published in a news paper article - a description of my
> LongEZ - it was a contraption. Twas  a disparaging description in my
> opinion. Much akin to a Rube Goldberg contraption. Perhaps a backyard toy
> gone flying by some odd mystical method. "You really gonna fly that thing?"
> NO, I'm going to peddle it home. "Ain't that the plane that John Denver got
> killed in?" No . that was another LongEZ.
>
>Fumed all the way home while at 9,500 feet / 180 mph by some unknown law of
> physics.
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> This was at the EAA SW gathering in Texas moons ago.
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> Lawn darts are not in the same category.
>
> Jim
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>From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Jay
> Phillips
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2014 2:19 PM
> To: lml@lancaironline.net
> Subject: [LML] Re: Legacy Accident History Update
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> If it's on the internet it must be true :-) There was no grass on the side
> of the runway, only soft gravel. That is the reason my nose fork came off.
> The little nose wheel sank in the soft gravel and decided it didn't want to
> play anymore. The time is wrong also.
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> Looks like one of their sources is the local news organization. We all know
> that newspapers always get everything exactly correct.
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> Jay