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From: Bulent Aliev <atlasyts@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: gauges
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 17:51:30 -0500
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>

You said it right Lynn. Over the last years lots of people when  
talking about my plane were associating it with "like the one J.  
Denver got killed in"
Bulent "Buly" Aliev
FXE Ft lauderdale, FL
  http://tinyurl.com/dcy36


On Dec 4, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Lehanover@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/4/2006 12:59:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> eanderson@carolina.rr.com writes:
> Not to criticize John Denver's airmanship in general - he was  
> obviously an accomplished aviator - BUT for this specific flight  
> and leading up to it, he showed less then perfection, rather  
> negligence:
> John Denver did nothing for aviation. He had lost his license for  
> crashing his Porsche under the influence of alcohol. He had no  
> license for cars or airplanes.
>
> If you see vice grips being used as a normal part of an aircrafts  
> equipment, what comes to your mind? I have got to buy this  
> airplane? No, you don't think that at all.
>
> If you loose your license, do you think, I'm famous, so nobody will  
> notice me flying again with no license? No, you wouldn't.
>
> And if you are out of fuel because you chose not to add any, will  
> changing tanks with your vise grips cure your problem? No it won't.
>
>  Whatever John Denver was, he was not a pilot. He raised our  
> insurance rates. He killed himself, and the world lost the benefit  
> of his talent, and he destroyed his family. He destroyed what could  
> have been a nice airplane. He made it more difficult for all of us  
> to fly.
>
> Lynn E. Hanover