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A dear friend of mine once said, "I've been around this rodeo enough, to enjoy life as it is dealt to me each day." It has given me an entirely new perspective on life. To describe myself, … I am an easygoing, very low maintenance, down to earth kind of person. Keywords are honesty, truth and integrity. What makes me tick? I guess you could say life. I am a spiritual, but not religious. I do not believe any one set of people, beliefs or teachings have the sole method of what is truth. I accept and respect all beliefs. I believe that is more important to walk your path, than it is to talk your path. Personally, I am more "aligned" with what can be called the "natural-way" or the Ancient and Olde Way.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

JFK: Air France/Delta Connection - Ground Accident


Years ago, when I was still an air traffic controller, and the Boeing 777 first came on the scene, there were a number of airports that were evaluated because of the wing-tip clearances being presented by what was then called the Next-Generation-Large Transport aircraft. If I recall my "airport-design" standards requirements the taxiway wingtip clearance area was to be ten (10) percent of half the wingspan plus 20 feet for the NGL aircraft. Therefore with a wingspan of reported 260 feet, the wingtip clearance area should be 33 feet, thus the taxiway object free area then was supposed to be 326 feet. Which from the diagram you can then see the potential problem.

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