March 17th, 2010 -- Posted in I think |
An exploratory Lancair IV-P flat sits on the beach Tuesday at Hilton Head Island, S.C., the hour after its pilot made an exigency landing in which a man jogging was killed. Officials command the Woodstock, Ga., houseman neither saw nor heard what struck him from behind Monday evening: A single-engine plain making an danger landing.
The Lancair IV-P aircraft, which can be built from a kit, had confounded its propeller and was “basically gliding” as it hit and instantly killed Jones, Ed Allen, the coroner for Beaufort County on the South Carolina coast, said Tuesday. “There’s no noise,” said aviation skilful Mary Schiavo, a ex- inspector broad for the National Transportation Safety Board. “So the jogger, with his taste buds in, and the skate without an engine, you’re basically a sneakiness aircraft. Who would foresee to manner up?” The pilot, Edward I. Smith of Chesapeake, Va., and his lone traveller both walked away from the Failure splashdown near the Hilton Head Marriott Resort and Spa.
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April 22nd, 2009 -- Posted in I read |
If great golf courses are defined by its vital champions, then it’s light to catch on why the membership at Oakmont Country Club was so thrilled to conjure up Angel Cabrera in a green jacket. No other championship seminar in America can brag such a long and distinguished list of major champions. Gene Sarazen. Sam Snead. Ben Hogan. Jack Nicklaus. Johnny Miller. Ernie Els.
Not many race knew much about Cabrera when he won the U.S. Open at Oakmont two years ago by one try over Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk. He was big, Strong and his hardscrabble obsession was as much Pittsburgh as it was Argentina. Oakmont has hosted 11 men’s wizard majors, and only two of its champions resident pro Sam Parks Jr. at the 1935 U.S. Open and John Mahaffey at the 1978 PGA Championship never won another Grand Slam event.
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February 26th, 2009 -- Posted in I think |
WGC-ACCENTURE MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP: TUCSON WAS bristling with more microphones and sycophant dishes than cacti as Tiger Woods made his long-awaited reappearance at a overflowing also pressurize congress that began with a taunt and ended with a statement of intent that will have sent a shatter down the spines of the other 63 hopefuls who will tee it up in the head round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship today. Golf has been waiting with bated touch for its fillet prince to return from knee Surgery and after 254 days, he kept his non-exclusive waiting another 45 minutes as he put the finishing touches to his key convention round in suffocating enthusiasm at the 7,800-yard Ritz-Carlton Golf Club. “It’s great to be back,” Woods said, flashing his superstar smile. “Sorry I’m late.
I forgot how hanker it takes to skylarking 18 holes walking.” It was a light-hearted send-off to a info colloquy that was beamed live around the world. But as it drew to a close, Woods sent a harsh foreshadowing to his rivals that he has every intention of enchanting up where he left off following his 14th major championship first in the US Open at Torrey Pines just over eight months ago. Winning.
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