AMEN to that brother!

good for him - glad he helpd out in any way!

Ha! I just wanted to thank mr Travolta before this gets locked. Mr lightAttack, it takes a set to call someone out for donating time and money to a good cause, good one!

So Light Attack, are you envious that you don't own a 707, go home to Kelly Preston, with whom you would have lost your 16-year old son last year? What's your issue? Mine and my wife's donations to Red Cross, AmeriCare, and Doctors Without Borders don't even compare to Travolta's.

Fine, but if you owned a transport, would you wear a uniform? With epaulets? C'mon....

On the plus side, evidently, even with all his success, he wants to be us

Someone go invite him to APC

Sorry if my cynicism offends all you "trusting" souls. My point is that with a resource as large as a 707, two to three positions of MREs seems small and raises questions as to the purpose of the flight, when airspace and parking space at Port au Prince is tight.

Food is food, but was that really an efficient use of resources if bringing aid to quake victims was the intent?

No, I don't own a 707, but if I did, and was that wealthy, I'd be flying a lot more down there. And I wouldn't fill my plane with "ministers."

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little". - Edmund Burke

Every little bit helps...

So, pretend you owned an Airplane configured for passenger travel, I believe his seats about 45, w/ no room for cargo on the main deck. You are saying you would fill the passenger area w/ freight? How would you begin to secure it? Or, would you just put it in and hope for the best.
So, he could only fit 2 pallets worth of freight in his bellies. What more do you want from the guy?

When I was down yonder in Hispaniola, you basically just needed to validate you were bringing supplies (vice people), on an IFR plan and you got a slot time (and had to stick to it +/-20min or something), etc... about three weeks ago it wasn't too hard for civilians to get in provided they were bringing something useful.. I don't know how/if it's changed.

A lot of people were flying fleets of charted aircraft down there.. so JT wasn't the only one dishin out some dough... but I'm sure the Haitian people are grateful (hopefully) either way....

One mil flight I heard was a Canadian C-130 that orbited around couldn't land... had to go back to Provo... they had a bunch of supplies and doctors on board... got called back to Montreal or something.


now... it's just about gettin those nice supplies distributed.....