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echo: aviation
to: JIM SANDERS
from: WR MICHELSON
date: 1998-05-10 14:11:00
subject: Wing sparks, etc.

On 05-06-98, JIM SANDERS most eloquently expounded thus...
>     You are talking about the "Tree Huggers" and "animal
>  rights" types.
AND the airplane haters who buy houses off the end of runways!
>    I don't blame you... Another thing I am hot on is the attack
>  on tobacco. Cigarettes and Black Coffee won WW II for us.  
Like one of our new-hires who came from the Canadian Military and
was flying hercs in Sarejavo... says "I looked death in the face
day after day... how bad can it get?"
 
>    My lungs would not stand much high flying now. Even our
>  pressure was 8,000... Highest I have ever been non pressure
>  was 41,000 in a stripped out B-17E.  Pressurized was to
An old Capt I used to fly with never would go to 41,000 on the DC-8,
(cabin altitude was 8'000) because his "pipe would go out!"  That
was his story, and he stuck to it!
~Mitch
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