Beware the long arm of "The Man"...........

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Beware the long arm of "The Man"...........

Postby JBaymore » Sat May 10, 2008 10:41 pm

This article below is a little bit scary for anyone building a military fighter simpit and using a real aricraft cockpit shell.  ::) :P

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?Cont ... 37fac5746&

"Step away from the simulator and put you hands in the air!"

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Re: Beware the long arm of "The Man"...........

Postby expat » Sun May 11, 2008 8:00 am

This article below is a little bit scary for anyone building a military fighter simpit and using a real aricraft cockpit shell.  ::) :P

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?Cont ... 37fac5746&

"Step away from the simulator and put you hands in the air!"

best,

....................john




Take him out guys, he has just let go with a Sidewinder and some 20 mill..........................The death of a simpitter ;D

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Re: Beware the long arm of "The Man"...........

Postby JSpahn » Sun May 11, 2008 7:18 pm

Not to joke about a bad subject but my Father-In-Law asked me if I planned on training terrorists with my cockpit :o  Too soon? ;D
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Re: Beware the long arm of "The Man"...........

Postby JBaymore » Sun May 11, 2008 9:47 pm

Yeah.... that whole "terriorist" subject is "weird" when it comes to home cockpits.  It appears that these days "paranoia" abounds.  ::)

He probably was making a joke........ but too many folks would possibly look at this hobby and have a little niggling "worry" in the back of their mind about "that guy next door with the cockpit in his basement".

Blech.  :P

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Re: Beware the long arm of "The Man"...........

Postby JSpahn » Sun May 11, 2008 9:55 pm

Yeah it was a total joke but that isn't the first time I heard those "paranoid" statements ;D

For all we know the Department of Homeland Security has all of us builders on a watch list   ;D
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Re: Beware the long arm of "The Man"...........

Postby JBaymore » Sun May 11, 2008 10:21 pm

[quote]For all we know the Department of Homeland Security has all of us builders on a watch list
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Re: Beware the long arm of "The Man"...........

Postby expat » Mon May 12, 2008 7:17 am

For all we know the Department of Homeland Security has all of us builders on a watch list   ;D


Entirely possible.  8-)



Did you not know, all hardware stores have to report all members of the public buying moderate amounts of MDF and toggle switches ;D ;D

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Re: Beware the long arm of "The Man"...........

Postby C » Mon May 12, 2008 2:37 pm

Doesn't surprise me. Read an article today stating that 4000 aircraft had been auctioned at AMARC, including trainers such as T-34s, of which many fly in civilian hands already. So paranoid are "the powers that be" post 9/11, that all the aircraft were sold on the proviso they are scrapped on site, and no part larger than 10cm x 10cm remains. ::)
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