California's LtGovernor made that declaration re the lack of available NG
troops to assist in California.  He sounded hopping mad.

Re the Spruce Goose, even using the Pacific as a take off "pad," if the
craft could lift high enough to fly over Mt. Fujiama.
SamC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Daniel - Shazam" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: Satellite image of fire

Well the Spruce Goose has done only one flight.
They could try another one.
As for length of waterway - what is it across the pacific - 6,000 miles,
that ought to be long enough to get airborne, on a calm day of course.
  And "blaming everyone' after a disaster.
Well, some is justified of course.
I do like this one - someone, perhaps Nancy Pelosi...i was driving listening
to the radio when I heard this .......
Might be who it was.....................andy, they  pointed out that
national guard troops weren't very available or equipped to help with fire
disaster because they are in Iraq !

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Loren Busch
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:01 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Satellite image of fire

Sorry Sam, that one is grounded and sitting in McMinville, Oregon.  They
built a museum around it...

On 10/25/07, Sam Conant <samcvt@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>   I mentioned the other day, jokingly, that they ought to try
> using that monster of an aircraft that Howard Hughes created, except they
> probably didn't have a waterway long enough for it to fly aloft fully
> loaded.
>
>