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Re: Recent thoughts on LSR at Bonneville

To: M Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Recent thoughts on LSR at Bonneville
From: Doug Odom <dlodom@charter.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:15:11 -0700
Malcolm, I still ask the same question. How does a foreign owned company 
get the use of an american airport runway  when  american citizens are 
told " NO, the FAA forbids it because of national security! " 
 Doug Odom in big ditch who does not know who gets the bribery  money.

M Pittwood wrote:

>Two of my latest postings to answer Otto and others on the JCB seem to have
>failed to reach the list.
>
>Will not repeat anything but the summary points.
>
>JCB were a team using the event to demonstrate worldwide their prowess and
>skills.  Any dirty uniforms would have looked bad.  The numbers I feel sure
>related to operations on private time, not at speed week.
>
>There is unlikely to be any corporate interest in most of the thousands of
>SCTA classes.  Corporate money aims at the fastest or at a record for a
>discernable body shape.
>
>I hope that the World Finals will see good salt and good weather this year
>and the same for the El Mirage meet that follows - my US  itinerary appears
>to be able to pick up both events, that I have never attended before.
>
>Malcolm Pittwood, Derby, England.




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