Bill Greenwood
09-13-2016, 12:08 PM
A fighter pilot closing on a slower target, ie bomber, at a high rate of speed can get "fixated" so that he underestimates the rapidly shrinking distance.
Just saw a news story yesterday, sort of in reverse. In this case it was the real Target.
A customer was walking across the parking lot and found a used needle on the ground, the Mom brushed it out of her daughter's hand and was stuck by the needle and infected, resulting in being hospitalized, husband missing work, etc. Their lawyer asked the company for $12,000 to cover these costs. The company refused, fixated on not paying anything. It went to a jury who just awarded the lady $4.6 million. Could have paid $12k, probably a minutes worth of revenue, and had an amiable end.
I wonder how often we, either as people, organizations, or nations insist on the difficult path?I was thinking about the Cuban missle crisis and the patience and judgement JFK had when it was most needed. Maybe an all too rare thing in todays world but maybe even more needed, when we have missile and nuclear tests in N. Korea and our bombers flying a demo flight close to their border.
Closer to home, EAA has showed patience and persistence when dealing with the FAA, and the pilots rghts bill which hopefully will come to pass this year.
Just saw a news story yesterday, sort of in reverse. In this case it was the real Target.
A customer was walking across the parking lot and found a used needle on the ground, the Mom brushed it out of her daughter's hand and was stuck by the needle and infected, resulting in being hospitalized, husband missing work, etc. Their lawyer asked the company for $12,000 to cover these costs. The company refused, fixated on not paying anything. It went to a jury who just awarded the lady $4.6 million. Could have paid $12k, probably a minutes worth of revenue, and had an amiable end.
I wonder how often we, either as people, organizations, or nations insist on the difficult path?I was thinking about the Cuban missle crisis and the patience and judgement JFK had when it was most needed. Maybe an all too rare thing in todays world but maybe even more needed, when we have missile and nuclear tests in N. Korea and our bombers flying a demo flight close to their border.
Closer to home, EAA has showed patience and persistence when dealing with the FAA, and the pilots rghts bill which hopefully will come to pass this year.