Yet another genius....

[dmccormack]

"What about attack by a small plane? Given the impracticality of shooting down a tiny aircraft before it could detonate a bomb from the air, the best approach is to begin screening all domestic departures of small airplanes. This effort should be folded into the Securing the Cities Initiative. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/opinion/15wein.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3&emc=eta1

 

[SCCutler]

Dear God in Heaven.

A less thought-out statement, I have never seen. This fellow purports to be an educator?

Presuming he is a qualified educator (and I will do so, for obvious reasons), perhaps he needs to be offered the opportunity to learn something of substance about GA. If he were in my geographic area, I'd offer to acquaint him with general aviation, but he is nowhere local; are there any friends who might do so?

Perhaps we should try to get Kareem Fahmi in touch...

 

[dmccormack]

Dear God in Heaven.

A less thought-out statement, I have never seen. This fellow purports to be an educator?

Presuming he is a qualified educator (and I will do so, for obvious reasons), perhaps he needs to be offered the opportunity to learn something of substance about GA. If he were in my geographic area, I'd offer to acquaint him with general aviation, but he is nowhere local; are there any friends who might do so?

Perhaps we should try to get Kareem Fahmi in touch...

He's at Stanford. My Bro-in-law completed his PhD at that program -- I'll ask him if he knows this wunder-kind.

 

[SCCutler]

He's at Stanford. My Bro-in-law completed his PhD at that program -- I'll ask him if he knows this wunder-kind.

If he is a genuine scholar, he'll welcome the opportunity to learn more- if not, his refusal or reticence to learn will be equally revealing.

Either way, the effort is not lost.

 

[dmccormack]

If he is a genuine scholar, he'll welcome the opportunity to learn more- if not, his refusal or reticence to learn will be equally revealing.

Either way, the effort is not lost.

Agreed

 

[AdamZ]

Yeah its impractical to shoot down a small plane becuase they move so fast and can elude missles and machine gun fire from other aircraft and they carry soooo much payload

 

[ScottM]

Yeah its impractical to shoot down a small plane becuase they move so fast and can elude missles and machine gun fire from other aircraft and they carry soooo much payload

Sooo the Advanced fighters that the US Air Force are buying are a boondogle?

They should be using the mighty 150!!

 

[steingar]

It would seem a simpler thing to promote nuclear nonproliferation than all this security nonsense.

 

[dmccormack]

It would seem a simpler thing to promote nuclear nonproliferation than all this security nonsense.

Or maybe simply identify the actual threats and impose security restrictions of worse on them?