And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, February 28, 2025
It'd be cool to be important enough to come to work that way
Those corps never went bankrupt, they ain't in name anymore, its all a out money laundering, welching or backing out of something to get something back, and the few at the top make large book out of the accumulative skim from beating smaller guys and contractors out of money due them. Everything we are permitted to see is theater, those who control the financial world ever lose money, they cause everyone other than them to lose money.
It might look cool, but I wouldn't want the headaches that came with the job. There is a certain luxury in being an anonymous peon who doesn't get to make high dollar decisions.
The helicopter shuttled passengers from Pan Am's Manhattan headquarters to JFK. Very handy for businessmen working in Manhattan. Gave them extra time for meetings and still make their flight.
The Bankruptcy of Pan American is not why this service was discontinued. The average wind speed on the tope of the building was fifty miles per hours. It was a dangerous convenience which was ceased long before Pan Am ceased operations.
Took that ride one time (around 1980?), it was the most stomach churning event ever and I have flown in the CH-47 before (Navy) and well of 2 million passenger miles in the air over 40 years. The PanAm pilot would crank up the engines till the bird just started to lift (as in 2 inches off the roof deck) then gently allow it to drift over the edge. Let me tell you, the visual out the porthole darned made me upchuck. As I said, only once, was enough.
I once had a ride in a Marine CH-46 (similar to what is shown here, but probably a later vintage). Took off from the Mountain Warfare Training Center (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Warfare_Training_Center) and flew around some of the high ground. We shot a landing at a knoll, and before the wheels touched the wind blew us off, and once we were out of ground effect we were headed down. The pilot had to add a lot of power and come around again, then he stuck the landing.
The chopper service ended instantly with an accident in 1977, but not for the reasons you might have guessed. Main landing gear strut broke while chopper sitting on roof, disembarking passengers with rotors still turning. 3 or 4 people killed onsite, plus someone on street.
Pan Am went bankrupt. Nuff said.
ReplyDeletewhat hasn't?
DeleteThose corps never went bankrupt, they ain't in name anymore, its all a out money laundering, welching or backing out of something to get something back, and the few at the top make large book out of the accumulative skim from beating smaller guys and contractors out of money due them.
DeleteEverything we are permitted to see is theater, those who control the financial world ever lose money, they cause everyone other than them to lose money.
It might look cool, but I wouldn't want the headaches that came with the job. There is a certain luxury in being an anonymous peon who doesn't get to make high dollar decisions.
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DeleteRight. That primo close-in parking spot just puts you that much closer to the first crisis of the day.
DeleteI don't want to be a millionaire, I just want to live like one.
ReplyDeleteI used to want that, until I started being grateful for what I had. Now I just count my blessings.
DeleteNow that's a skill we should have all taught our kids. Every day, consider what you have and be thankful.
DeleteThe helicopter shuttled passengers from Pan Am's Manhattan headquarters to JFK. Very handy for businessmen working in Manhattan. Gave them extra time for meetings and still make their flight.
ReplyDelete'zackly.
DeleteThat wasn't for commuting, it was for saving an hour in NYFC traffic to get to the airport if you were booked top tier on Pan Am.
As Joni Mitchell wrote:
ReplyDelete“A helicopter lands on the Pan Am roof like a dragonfly on a tomb.”
The Bankruptcy of Pan American is not why this service was discontinued. The average wind speed on the tope of the building was fifty miles per hours. It was a dangerous convenience which was ceased long before Pan Am ceased operations.
ReplyDeleteIs that a Chinook?
ReplyDeleteCivilian version of the Sea Knight.
DeleteProbably after to use the chopper than those old elevators.
ReplyDeleteTook that ride one time (around 1980?), it was the most stomach churning event ever and I have flown in the CH-47 before (Navy) and well of 2 million passenger miles in the air over 40 years. The PanAm pilot would crank up the engines till the bird just started to lift (as in 2 inches off the roof deck) then gently allow it to drift over the edge. Let me tell you, the visual out the porthole darned made me upchuck. As I said, only once, was enough.
ReplyDeleteUnions claimed another victim.
ReplyDeleteI once had a ride in a Marine CH-46 (similar to what is shown here, but probably a later vintage). Took off from the Mountain Warfare Training Center (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Warfare_Training_Center) and flew around some of the high ground. We shot a landing at a knoll, and before the wheels touched the wind blew us off, and once we were out of ground effect we were headed down. The pilot had to add a lot of power and come around again, then he stuck the landing.
ReplyDeleteThe chopper service ended instantly with an accident in 1977, but not for the reasons you might have guessed. Main landing gear strut broke while chopper sitting on roof, disembarking passengers with rotors still turning. 3 or 4 people killed onsite, plus someone on street.
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