KR> Steve Jones' Crash

2008-10-12 Thread Dan Heath
You are absolutely right. It is dangerous. I look back at when I tested the Little Beast, and I am ashamed to tell you that I used concrete blocks. Every time I look back on that, it scares me. To think that I could have used such bad judgement. What if I had suffered a rough landing and those thin

KR> Steve Jones' Crash

2008-10-12 Thread Ron Smith
Dan wrote: The only thing is > that I need to get as > much weight as Jerry and that is going to be hard to > do. LOL! BTW what you said about the blocks is exactly what I'm talking about. If we were God we could forsee every little thing that could go wrong. We can't. I remember when Mark Jo

KR> Steve Jones' Crash

2008-10-12 Thread Brian Kraut
PM To: kr...@mylist.net Subject: Re: KR> Steve Jones' Crash You are absolutely right. It is dangerous. I look back at when I tested the Little Beast, and I am ashamed to tell you that I used concrete blocks. Every time I look back on that, it scares me. To think that I could have used such bad ju

KR> Steve Jones' Crash

2008-10-12 Thread Mark Jones
I know, with everyone that this post reaches, the loss of such a guy as Steve weighs very heavy on our minds and we are all deeply saddened with the loss of Steve. It is human instinct to start throwing out every possible cause and discuss them amongst ourselves until the actual facts are known.

KR> Steve Jones' Crash

2008-10-12 Thread Dennis Mingear
Thanks for the additional info regarding this very sad event Mark. Everytime I see someone on the list talk about sandbags in the cockpit I always worry about the darn things shifting around and as we all know it doesn't take much shifting around, not to mention a loose 50 pound bag of sand, in a