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Flying is an adventure, anyone who thinks otherwise will be disappointed.     Protecting Whistleblowers  
To second-guess (Having the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.)    Safety last, FAA inspectors complain To second-guess (Having the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.)     The FAA Risk Analysis Handbook 
To second-guess (Having the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.)    An Array of  Aircraft Wiring Articles Flying is an adventure, anyone who thinks otherwise will be disappointed.     Another Kapton Site
To second-guess (Having the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.)    Aging Aircraft Regs Flying is an adventure, anyone who thinks otherwise will be disappointed.     What every Pilot should know about Wiring
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)    Prescription for Disaster In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)    Troubleshooting Wire -ARCMAS
When you have nothing to say, say nothing. -- Charles Caleb    The Pilot's Wife "A prime candidate for natural de-selection."    FAA Testing for Fire Safety
I will fly in a helicopter when birds grow wings out of their heads.    An Iberian Airbust "Nil FAULT FOUND". Another great work of fiction in progress.    An Epilogue for Both
I will fly in a helicopter when birds grow wings out of their heads.    The Bangkok 737 Explosion  "Nil FAULT FOUND". Another great work of fiction in progress.    The Other Side of the Bangkok 737 Explosion 
I will fly in a helicopter when birds grow wings out of their heads.    An EgyptAir Interpretation (one of two) "Nil FAULT FOUND". Another great work of fiction in progress.    An EgyptAir Interpretation (two of two)
"They shall mount up with wings, as eagles" Isaiah 40:31    FAA Orders on MD-11 Cargo Compartment Wiring 'Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel!' Dr Johnson, 17th Century man-of-letters    FAA orders MD-11 Wiring Inspections
``The course of history can be changed but not halted.'' - Paul Robeson, American actor, singer and civil rights activist (1898-1976).    Concorde's Metal Strip "No matter how far you have gone down the wrong road, turn back."    The Regulatory Bottom Line
Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue    Slightly Out of Date -A320 Hull Losses * The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. Large angle of arrival, small probability of survival and vice versa.   That Airbus FBW Technology
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. - Oscar Wilde    Metal Shavings -TWA800 "Flying is of the Spirit. The Spirit wants to fly!" Amazon jungle pilot    The Low-Down on Wiring
"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. " Lucille S. Harper     Some Passenger Advice  Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.- Irving Kristol    Fear of Flying 
"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. " Lucille S. Harper     The No-Fault Finder  Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.- Irving Kristol    FAA Audit Rips Boeing
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.- George Bernard Shaw    Alaska Air Ethics  Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory    Come in Spinner (IFE Problems plague Airlines)
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.- George Bernard Shaw    Post-Crash  The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese    Crash Causes    
There is no such thing as a perfect flan.     SmokeHoods and Aviation Safety The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese   Thermal and Acoustic Insulation Materials for Aircraft & Spacecraft
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.- George Bernard Shaw    Faulty Wiring (Is it Safe to Fly?) The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese    Lost at Sea    
Tears fall in my heart like rain on the town.- Paul Verlaine    Digital Upsets    If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.- James F. Clarke    Power to the People
Figures lie - Liars figure. John King    The Cabin Safety Menu    In every truth - a little lie, In every lie - a little truth."    TWA800 (Head on Clash) 
There's nothing so important in aviation as a good look-out (unless it's a bit of shut-eye)    Upkeep not AGE    The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.- Fyodor Dostoyevsky    Exceedances 
Diagonally parked in a parallel universe    Aircraft Wiring and Inert Gas Generator Working Group    "Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steven Wright    Hughes Fire Science & Engineering 
"It is a mistake to look too far ahead, only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time." - Sir Winston Churchill    NTSB Crash Response    I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.- Frank Moore Colby    Galley Electrical Fire 
Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village    The EVACU8 Smoke-hood Site    Every sin is the result of a collaboration.- Stephen Crane    Do Airlines cut Maint Corners 
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.- Sir Winston Churchill    ETOPS to 207 minutes Real life is only one kind of life--there is also the life of the imagination. - E.B. White    FAA not moving fast  enough on safety     
Great spirits have always encountered violence from mediocre minds.-- Albert Einstein    Langewiesche on Valujet Pt 1  Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. Thomas Jefferson    Langewiesche on Valujet Pt 2
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.-- Mark Twain    Langewiesche on Valujet Pt 3  Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Erma Bombeck   The White Paper on Thermal Blankets
There is no such thing as a perfect flan.     sr111 lost all main instruments Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Erma Bombeck    Power Failure paralysed sr111
There is no such thing as a perfect flan.     How Long Did it Take? (Valujet 592 Transcript) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Erma Bombeck    Guilty or not - the Kapton Threat is Real 
I prefer old age to the alternative.-- Maurice Chevalier    64 cases of bad Shuttle Wiring  All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.-- John Stuart Mill    A Shadow over Lockerbie  
I prefer old age to the alternative.-- Maurice Chevalier    New Circuit Breakers Needed I prefer old age to the alternative.-- Maurice Chevalier    Some Eye-Opening Sentiments
All men naturally desire knowledge.Aristotle   AirBussing it The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt. John Philpot Curran, an Irish judge, 10 July 1790   The Aging Aircraft Conference Proceedings
Pay no attention to what the critics say, there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic. Jean Sibelius   Shuttle Wiring Flaws ground all Orbiters Life is so short, we must move very slowly. Welcome to the FAA.   STS Columbia's wiring close call
Pay no attention to what the critics say, there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic. Jean Sibelius   The Airline Safety Pecking Order   Life is so short, we must move very slowly. Welcome to the FAA.   How Volcanic Clouds affect Aircraft  
Life is so short, we must move very slowly. Welcome to the FAA.   TWA800 Report will change Aviation Life is so short, we must move very slowly. Welcome to the FAA.  The FAA Safety Culture Philosophy 
Pay no attention to what the critics say, there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic. Jean Sibelius  The Whistle-Blower Act   Life is so short, we must move very slowly. Welcome to the FAA.  Swissair 111 wire insulation known to cause fires
Pay no attention to what the critics say, there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic. Jean Sibelius  Ä Bill to Stop Overseas Maint of U.S. Airliners   Life is so short, we must move very slowly. Welcome to the FAA.  McSweeny TWA800 House S.C. Testimony  
Pay no attention to what the critics say, there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic. Jean Sibelius  Better Materials are available Life is so short, we must move very slowly. Welcome to the FAA.  USA Today on Cabin Fire Survivability 
Pay no attention to what the critics say, there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic. Jean Sibelius  FAA had been warned of jet's wiring fire hazard  Life is so short, we must move very slowly. Welcome to the FAA.  The Pulitzer B737 Story    (8 pages)
Pay no attention to what the critics say, there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic. Jean Sibelius  MD11 Safety Characteristics Questionable   Life is so short, we must move very slowly. Welcome to the FAA.  An Unholy Alliance 
bullet2b.gif  FAA to review its certification system bullet2b.gif  United disables laptops due to wiring concerns
bullet2b.gif  MD-11 turns back after smoke reported bullet2b.gif  Fear of Flying Help Pages
bullet2b.gif  New Directions in Air Safety - Air Safety Essay bullet2b.gif   Swissair 111 Recorders garbled
bullet2b.gif   BASI Aviation Links bullet2b.gif  An sr111 assumption - based on molten plastic
bullet2b.gif   BASI Home Page bullet2b.gif  sr111 Last Words
bullet2b.gif   BASI Safety Programs Reports Index bullet2b.gif  AVWEB Safety Pages
bullet2b.gif   Aviation Accident Database bullet2b.gif  Flight 232 [login: sam54    password:   matt]
bullet2b.gif   FAA Urges Airlines to Replace Insulation bullet2b.gif  American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
bullet2b.gif  20 Worst Aviation Accidents bullet2b.gif  FAA to study aging aircraft
bullet2b.gif   Aviation Accident Data-Base bullet2b.gif  MD-11 Cuts Pilot Workload
bullet2b.gif  Aviation accidents 1960-1964 bullet2b.gif  sr111 site (MAPS)
bullet2b.gif  Aviation accidents 1985-1989 bullet2b.gif  Fire in the SKY (Straight Transcript)
bullet2b.gif  Aviation accidents 1970-1974 bullet2b.gif  Search NASA data-base (for Aviation Tech Terms)
bullet2b.gif   Aviation accidents - AA191 (academic) bullet2b.gif  Metallized Mylar Thermal/Acoustic Blankets
bullet2b.gif   Silkair 185 (B737 Accident Indonesia) bullet2b.gif  Project on Open Government (on sr111)
bullet2b.gif   Micro-Bursts (weather phenomenon) bullet2b.gif  Halon Fire Extinguishant
bullet2b.gif   Fuselage Fire Aviation Disasters Page bullet2b.gif  The Siphoning off of Aviation Safety Funds
bullet2b.gif   Search the BASI WEB-site bullet2b.gif  The Gore Commission [login: sam54 Passwd: matt)
bullet2b.gif   Degraded Situational Awareness in Automated Flight bullet2b.gif  The John D King Letter
bullet2b.gif   An Improved Polymer (for arc-tracking) bullet2b.gif  Human Factors in Aircraft Maintenance
bullet2b.gif   Aviation Week Safety News Headlines bullet2b.gif  Aviation Week Safety Site
bullet2b.gif   New Technology Dutch Flight Simulator bullet2b.gif   Flight Safety Foundation (Appch & Landing Accidents)
bullet2b.gif   The "Rain in the Plane" bullet2b.gif  The Martinair B767 Elec Failure Incident
bullet2b.gif   The Carriage of HAZMAT bullet2b.gif  Arcing to Oxygen Line causes Inflight Fire
bullet2b.gif   NTSB on InFlight Wiring Arc Incident bullet2b.gif  A Not so Encouraging Document (for MD11 crews)

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