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| My experience with reading the various reports with regard to United Flight 823 is that they have been //to the point// and not too difficult to understand. | My experience with reading the various reports with regard to United Flight 823 is that they have been //to the point// and not too difficult to understand. | ||
| - | Having had no background in aviation; some of the terminology and abbreviations, at first, were alien to me. However, the useful tool of the Internet has gone a long way in assisting me to make adequate judgments on prioritizing and making decisions as to how the matter of United Flight 823 should be presented. I can humbly make the personal statement that this website is not the end all or be all. Instead, I see my purpose more as an interested party who wishes to raise questions that the reader might see worthwhile in considering. Above all else, I would remind the reader that the Federal Aviation Administration, nor anyone else, has found conclusive evidence as to the cause of the inflight fire that took place on July 9, 1964. Saying that, I would ask the reader if it is best to accept that there will never be real answers, or is it better to carry on in an attempt to find out exactly what happened? | + | Having had no background in aviation; some of the terminology and abbreviations, at first, were alien to me. However, the useful tool of the Internet has gone a long way in assisting me to make adequate judgments on prioritizing and making decisions as to how the matter of United Flight 823 should be presented. I can humbly make the personal statement that this website is not the end all or be all. Instead, I see my purpose more as an interested party who wishes to raise questions that the reader might see worthwhile in considering. Above all else, I would remind the reader that neither the Federal Aviation Administration, nor anyone else, has found conclusive evidence as to the cause of the inflight fire that took place on July 9, 1964. Saying that, I would ask the reader if it is best to accept that there will never be real answers, or is it better to carry on in an attempt to find out exactly what happened? |
| It is tempting to view the task as insurmountable and just assign it to the "dustbin of history", but I would remind the reader of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103#Investigation|Pan Am flight 103 investigation]] that took place after an aircraft was destroyed over Lockerbie, Scotland. A tiny piece of a circuit board from a cassette player took investigators in the direction that eventually led to the identification of those responsible for placing a bomb on the aircraft that killed 243 passengers and 16 crew members. | It is tempting to view the task as insurmountable and just assign it to the "dustbin of history", but I would remind the reader of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103#Investigation|Pan Am flight 103 investigation]] that took place after an aircraft was destroyed over Lockerbie, Scotland. A tiny piece of a circuit board from a cassette player took investigators in the direction that eventually led to the identification of those responsible for placing a bomb on the aircraft that killed 243 passengers and 16 crew members. | ||
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| This brings me to the use of the words, //paint modifier////Italic Text//. I have been a painter/contractor for all of my life. I have worked with every type of manufactured coating imaginable. Never have I used, or heard used, "modifier" to describe any type of paint additive. When I first came across the word "modifier", I assumed that someone from the United Kingdom had coined that word. After reading Dr. Graham's report and posting excerpts of his findings in a previous article, I noticed that he, whom I assume resided in the UK in 1964, used the words //paint thinner//, instead of paint modifier. | This brings me to the use of the words, //paint modifier////Italic Text//. I have been a painter/contractor for all of my life. I have worked with every type of manufactured coating imaginable. Never have I used, or heard used, "modifier" to describe any type of paint additive. When I first came across the word "modifier", I assumed that someone from the United Kingdom had coined that word. After reading Dr. Graham's report and posting excerpts of his findings in a previous article, I noticed that he, whom I assume resided in the UK in 1964, used the words //paint thinner//, instead of paint modifier. | ||
| - | The reader may be interested to know that the naphtha mentioned above is an example of a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon, but it was omitted as an example of what was known to have been on board the aircraft, is an available product for use as a paint thinner or "modifier". | + | The reader may be interested to know that the naphtha mentioned above, an example of a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon, was omitted as an example of what was known to have been on board the aircraft. Naphtha is an available product for use as a paint or varnish thinner or "modifier". |
| - | It is unknown, at this time, what was referred to as being the paint modifier that was found in the crushed gallon can, or whether or not it was recovered with its cap intact. | ||
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