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Roy Halladay died in a Plane crash......he was 40 years old.
 
That's awful.
 
...Holy crap !

...the Icon A5 pane he was flying is supposed to be very simple to fly...it folds up and can be towed on a trailer that nearly fits in a carport.
 
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yankeesince59 said:
...Holy crap !

...the Icon A5 pane he was flying is supposed to be very simple to fly...it folds up and can be towed on a trailer that nearly fits in a carport.
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...^^^ exactly,
What's really ironic: Jon Karkow the designer lead engineer died earlier this year in May, flying his own A5. I knew and met with Jon several times when he worked for Burt Rutan at "Scaled Composites" in Mojave. I never cared for the Rutan AC, too lightweight, always susceptible to control losses due to strong winds; and never kept that a secret, as did my colleagues often say as much to Rutan and Karkow....

Our own Co: 'NG' wound up buying out Rutan's Co exactly 10 yr's ago....
 
Halladay, a true craftsman on the mound, still well remember that NLDS Game 5 in '11. Halladay pitched his butt off only to lose to Carpenter 1-0. RIP sir, you were one of the best.
 
Mattingly23NY said:
...^^^ exactly,
What's really ironic: Jon Karkow the designer lead engineer died earlier this year in May, flying his own A5. I knew and met with Jon several times when he worked for Burt Rutan at "Scaled Composites" in Mojave. I never cared for the Rutan AC, too lightweight, always susceptible to control losses due to strong winds; and never kept that a secret, as did my colleagues often say as much to Rutan and Karkow....

Our own Co: 'NG' wound up buying out Rutan's Co exactly 10 yr's ago....
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...did not know that...thanx Matts.
 
Did the plane go down and crash in the ocean or was he practicing touch and goes on the water?

Saw the sad news and immediately thought of Clemente, Munson and Lidle.
 
totus44 said:
Did the plane go down and crash in the ocean or was he practicing touch and goes on the water?

Saw the sad news and immediately thought of Clemente, Munson and Lidle.
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I remember Lidle horrible, made me sick
 
Mattingly23NY said:
far below the belt, unfair, hateful; indicitative of Boston Beats.....
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...I realize that some of these talking heads say things sometime just to be controversial and stimulate conversation...but damn.

...and BTW, Matts, I like your Orwell quote.
 
...^^^ exactly, simply to stir up discontent, and make headlines. Like a child who believes they lack attention, so they stir up shit, and get negative attention, in lieu of none at all.......... sick minds....

The Orwell Quote is very telling of these times, eh?.... I remember reading 1984 in high school, thinking that's only a decade and 4 yrs away, sounded like forever until 1984, ........... now it's come been and gone. Orwell was damn near a prophet seer imo....
 
Mattingly23NY said:
...^^^ exactly, simply to stir up discontent, and make headlines. Like a child who believes they lack attention, so they stir up shit, and get negative attention, in lieu of none at all.......... sick minds....

The Orwell Quote is very telling of these times, eh?.... I remember reading 1984 in high school, thinking that's only a decade and 4 yrs away, sounded like forever until 1984, ........... now it's come been and gone. Orwell was damn near a prophet seer imo....
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...yeah, "1984" was big when I was in high school...(part of the Woodstock generation)
 
Damn you guys are old that was the year I was born. :lol:
 
Lillie said:
Damn you guys are old that was the year I was born. :lol:
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same year my Son was born. Does that mean I can call you daughter:

"Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me"...........

 
Autopsy revealed morphine in Halladays system at the time of the crash as per tmz.com Don't know how accurate they are but I will try to find a better source.
 
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If it was morphine, his family loses the insurance claim. Everyone knows, you do not pilot anything on that med.
 
I wonder why he was prescribed morphine to begin with?

an A5 amphib flying jet ski, is a highly maneuverable lightweight plane, (like all Scaled Composite aircraft are). One rarely see's pilots flying these AC without high maneuvering, they're built for such. The mindset isn't any different from driving a Bugatti, McClaren et al on the autobahn. But- ...

that being said, this won't define Doc Hallday to me, and shouldn't to any MLB fan. Sometimes this kind of news is better left private; tho' some will say if one life can be saved from this news then so be it, (not my opinion necessarily).

He owned MLB from 02-011 like few did. 2010 was one helluva year for Roy; that's what I'll remember him for, not a scrap heap in t/Gulf. Sad to see good men perish....
 
stampedehero said:
If it was morphine, his family loses the insurance claim. Everyone knows, you do not pilot anything on that med.
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great point. there has to be a prescription trail. my FIL just passed after battling pancreatic cancer for 7 months. When hospice came to do death certification, they get all their gear. but also whip out some documents that list all the morphine we were given and they police it all up and have you sign that you did return EVERYTHING.

mind you there are ways around that, and that's why we have the epidemic we have, but no simple solution.


this is a shame, some things the general public just doesn't need to hear. now that poor family has to relive this whole media storm again.
 
...Halladay was worth over $50 Mil at the time of his death...so I doubt his family is fretting over an insurance policy which may or may not even exist.
 
totus44 said:
great point. there has to be a prescription trail. my FIL just passed after battling pancreatic cancer for 7 months. When hospice came to do death certification, they get all their gear. but also whip out some documents that list all the morphine we were given and they police it all up and have you sign that you did return EVERYTHING.

mind you there are ways around that, and that's why we have the epidemic we have, but no simple solution.


this is a shame, some things the general public just doesn't need to hear. now that poor family has to relive this whole media storm again.
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You and I share a hospice experience. He slept into a Morphine coma then away. Prior to this point in time, he told me he hovered over his body when in the operating room but got sucked back and then on to this.
 
yankeesince59 said:
...Halladay was worth over $50 Mil at the time of his death...so I doubt his family is fretting over an insurance policy which may or may not even exist.
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His portfolio, if diverse and healthy, benefit his heirs. Seemed like a good joe..
 
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