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Subject: [Leica] Off Topic--Stella Awards
From: robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron)
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:18:44 -0600
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Jim, there probably was a better answer; I'm recounting from what I
remember from over 30 years ago.

--Bob

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
wrote:

> Bob,
>
> As a pilot, I can't let this go unchallenged.  An autopilot senses
> airspeed, etc, with respect to the RELATIVE wind.  A headwind would cost
> the pilot speed over the ground, or groundspeed, but would not affect the
> ability of the airplane and autopilot to maintain flight.  He would not
> settle to the ground except in two ways:  1) He encountered rising terrain.
>  Or, 2) He ran out of fuel.
>
> There has to be a better answer.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Baron" <robertbaron1 at 
> gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 6:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Off Topic--Stella Awards
>
>
>  ==On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>>  I live in Oklahoma and have heard the Winnebago version, in various
>>>>
>>> incarnations, for probably 30 years now.  There is also one about a
>>> doctor
>>> who put his airplane on autopilot and went back to take a nap.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>>
>>>  There actually was a lawyer in Oklahoma City who would set the alarm on
>> his
>> wrist watch, set the autopilot and doze off for a while.
>>
>> When he finally had his fatal crash the assumption was he was asleep while
>> he ran into a headwind and the airplane slowly lost speed and settled into
>> the ground.
>>
>> This is a true story and, speaking as a lawyer who knew him, I'll say it
>> was just more proof that you can't always fool Mother Nature.
>>
>> --Bob
>>
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Replies: Reply from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] Off Topic--Stella Awards)
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