He has arrived! #itshappening

[RonPaulRules]

#itshappening

 

[TheNewYorker]

Did he fly in from Colorado by any chance?

 

[KEEF]

Badump Ching!

 

[Suzanimal]

 

[angelatc]

OMG - I believe I'd fall down stepping off that wing.

 

[69360]

That's a tiny plane. Ron isn't a pilot is he?

 

[rg17]

That's a tiny plane. Ron isn't a pilot is he?

He was in the Air Force.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

He was in the Air Force.

As a doctor, not a pilot. He may or may not be a pilot, but his Air Force career has nothing to do with that.

 

[CPUd]

 

[sparebulb]

There is no fucking reason that Ron should be flying in a piston powered, twin-engined aircraft.

I know that it is a lot cheaper, but if he flies, he should only travel by twin turbine powered, piloted by two professional pilots.

The Beech Baron is a heck of a nice airplane for the owner pilot who knows the risks, but piston aircraft, twins especially, are reliable killers.

I would rather Ron & Co would travel in the back seat of a nice Suburban with a professional driver behind the wheel.

Here is the infamous story of the man from my area, Jerry Litton, who might have been President of the US, had it not been his decision to fly off to his election victory party. He had his entire family and their stuff on a nice Beech Baron, piloted by a moderately wealthy supporter. Things did not turn out well.

Missouri, the Summer of ’76: Jerry Litton was campaigning for the seat vacated by Stuart Symington, the longtime incumbent. As is often the case when such vacancies occurred, political ambitions were unleashed all around, and Litton had fought it out against two equally-well-known opponents in the Democratic primary. In what was the most expensive political campaign ever in Missouri, Jerry Litton spent nearly a million dollars in the primary to best former governor Warren Hearnes and the congressman-son of the incumbent senator, taking 45% of the vote in the three-cornered contest. Early returns indicated a big Litton win in the August 3, 1976 primary, and Litton and his wife Sharon and children Linda and Scott piled into a Beechcraft with long-time friend and pilot Paul Rupp and Rupp’s son, for the twenty-minute flight to Kansas City.
They never made it. Litton’s last words, via telephone to a campaign worker before he left his home were "we're going to win it big." As Time Magazine reported the accident:

As the blue and white, twin-engine Beechcraft Baron lifted off the choppy runway in Chillicothe, Mo., one evening last week, its occupants had good cause for jubilation. Millionaire Congressman Jerry Litton had just scored a dramatic upset in Missouri's Democratic senatorial primary. Now, accompanied by family and friends, he was headed for a victory party with 1,500 campaign workers in Kansas City's Hilton Plaza Inn. Suddenly, less than 200 ft. off the ground, one of the Beechcraft's engines apparently went dead. The plane banked sharply to the left, then plunged to earth. It tore through a barbed-wire fence, crashed in a soybean field and burst into flames that shot 30 ft. high. Amid the ashes and wreckage, sheriffs deputies found the bodies of Litton, 39, his wife Sharon, 36, and their two children. With them were their longtime friend and pilot Paul Rupp Jr. and his 18-year-old son. It was a ghastly finale to what had been one of the greatest days of Litton's political career.
According to the NTSB’s accident investigation, the probable causes of the crash were structural. The aircraft’s engine failed on initial climb, resulting in a stall; the likely source of the faulure was engine fatigue, specifically a crack in the #7 crankshaft. However, the NTSB also noted that pilot Phil Rupp’s failure to retract the landing gear and maintain flying speed contributed to the crash, though how he was supposed to maintain flight speed absent a working engine defies us.

http://www.gaddiewindage.com/2015/09/collisionwithfame-cursed-us-senate-seat.html

Had Litton not traveled by small piston aircraft, we would have been spared the reign of John Danforth's decades in the Senate.

And the Democrat Party would have not been quite as crazy.

 

[afwjam]

You might say the man just likes to live his life and so does his wife it seems. You know he also does not wear his seatbelt sometimes, rides his bike without a helmet.

 

[adam220891]

I could not contain myself and had to go retrieve my Ron sign from storage.

#ItsHappening

 

[Danke]

There is no fucking reason that Ron should be flying in a piston powered, twin-engined aircraft.

I know that it is a lot cheaper, but if he flies, he should only travel by twin turbine powered, piloted by two professional pilots.

The Beech Baron is a heck of a nice airplane for the owner pilot who knows the risks, but piston aircraft, twins especially, are reliable killers.

I would rather Ron & Co would travel in the back seat of a nice Suburban with a professional driver behind the wheel.

Here is the infamous story of the man from my area, Jerry Litton, who might have been President of the US, had it not been his decision to fly off to his election victory party. He had his entire family and their stuff on a nice Beech Baron, piloted by a moderately wealthy supporter. Things did not turn out well.



http://www.gaddiewindage.com/2015/09/collisionwithfame-cursed-us-senate-seat.html

Had Litton not traveled by small piston aircraft, we would have been spared the reign of John Danforth's decades in the Senate.

And the Democrat Party would have not been quite as crazy.

Say what?!

Does anyone know the qualifications of the pilot? Could be a current or former AF fighters pilot, the best there is. Nothing wrong with flying piston powered aircraft, in fact the speed would be slower in a lighter weight plane, making it more survivable in a forced landing.

 

[RonPaulRules]

 

[rprprs]

I only know one thing about this airplane debate...

He SHOULD BE stepping out of AIRFORCE ONE!

 

[twomp]

mmmm Dr. Ron Paul!!!!

 

[CPUd]

I could not contain myself and had to go retrieve my Ron sign from storage.

#ItsHappening

There are people in the crowd with Ron 2008 signs, too.

 

[adam220891]

There are people in the crowd with Ron 2008 signs, too.

I was an uninformed 15/16 year old that cycle and did not yet see the light, I am sad to admit.

 

[KEEF]

I was an uninformed 15/16 year old that cycle and did not yet see the light, I am sad to admit.

Well, welcome to the party now... I must say 08 & 12 were fun, but also left a pit in my stomach.

 

[adam220891]

Well, welcome to the party now... I must say 08 & 12 were fun, but also left a pit in my stomach.

I was a little late in 2012 cycle but still had a similar sticker to the one above and followed the results closely. It was a fun time, but did hurt like hell.

My only regret is not being more involved.