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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Reno Air Races
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:50:41 -0400
19 pilots were killed between 1964 and the 2011 event.  However, 2011 
not only raised the total to 20 but it's the first time spectators have 
been killed.  But in one event the spectator toll is almost half of the 
total pilot toll taken over 47 years.  I've no idea how F1 racing compares.

Chuck Norcutt

On 9/18/2011 4:28 AM, Moose wrote:
> On 9/18/2011 12:34 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> It's NASCAR for the skies. Most forms of racing have some form of danger and
>> this is no exception. You can't be critical of this and still like F1.
>
> Sure I can. Although no longer interested in racing of mechanical devices, I 
> have attended an F1 race.
>
> The cars are smaller and slower. It's pretty easy to see where they are most 
> likely to fly off the track, and not be
> there. If they do fly, it's not very far, and never very far up.
>
> The planes are already up. When they fall, it's far, heavy and hard.
>
> I don't know how much of the coverage you've read. In one early report, a 
> woman described seeing severed body parts
> flying through the air. As you may know, these old planes have sharp, whirly 
> things on the front. Confucius say "Lady
> back into propeller. Disaster!"
>
>> This was an accident. They happen. Tragic, yes, but not unexpected. The
>> spectator setback is no different than an airshow.
>
> As you so succinctly put it "not unexpected". Moosie not go there.
>
> All In One Piece Moose
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