>From: "Bill
>It's be great to re-visit the quintipoint from the air (I did it once!) but
>logistically difficult: I currently don't have access to an airplane, and
>I'm behind the eight ball when it comes to keeping my flying current (I
>haven't flown in about a year, and would require a biennial flight review
>prior to carrying passengers again).
>
>Bill
>
>PS: When I buzzed the quintipoint coordinates last time, there was so much
>chop in the water that I couldn't distinguish anything from 1,000
>feet...which was about as low as I wanted to go that far from shore.
understood & understood
our safety must come first
btw i dont know if i mentioned it at the time but i seem to recall a news
item about a similar okeechobee flyover that was made exactly or almost
exactly at the same time as your own by the then brand new czarina of the
dep christy todd whitman who used the occasion to vow to restore the lake to
pristine condition
did you happen to see her sail past your cockpit on air force 2 or something
pristine christine i like to call her
from new jersey yet too
so i figure our buoy & your afterflight had a real effect
given all the other political overtones & coincidences of our expedition to
the then also still newsworthy palm beach & martin etc counties
etc etc
but as far as a second annual recovery is concerned
i was already preparing to scotch the idea of our renting a plane for you to
fly us there since i already realized the likelihood of poor weather
so that is no real loss
& i wrote off a float plane charter too since that seems as unlikely as an
airboat on the surface of that normally choppy water
which leaves either a 4seater helicopter charter
& i do recall how you have no great love for helicopters
at 800 to 900 simoleons an hour
for one chanced to drop in at ozello yesterday with that data
or else the czechoslovakian mig also starting at 800 dollars
each
yes each because it is only a 2seater
or else of course another boat ride
but i am so wishing for something fresh
so basically what it seems to me to boil down to is we need to get a bp
scholarship for the mig & hope the owner will even do it for us at the basic
1600 for the 2 flights even tho okeechobee is a little ways from his only
usable airport at marathon key
tho that might not be so far at the speed of sound come to think of it
& at the other extreme a stall speed of even 100 knots might be slow enough
to at least spot the buoy with a gps in hand
anyway i would put it to the group to help us out here
indeed i was thinking maybe even those handsome & bighearted & well heeled
butler brothers would particularly like to chip in to help us break their
own charter expense record
that way they would even be able to keep the new record in their own old
name since we would simply be serving as their sit ins in this case
& we would only get an asterisk in harrys hall of boundary records next to
their names
etc etc
but anyway
as the very health of the lake & of all lakes everywhere could still be
hanging in the balance here in all our buoyant gestures & capers
er
what do you or what does anyone think of any of this so far
as i need to give up the computer again
m
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