The Bob Show

[Tad Eareckson]

Hey Bob...

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=599
Banned of Brothers

Bob Kuczewski - 2011/02/16 17:37:55 UTC (2019/10/12 16:00:00 UTC)

People who have been banned from: ushawks.org (operated by US Hawks Board)

- Tad Eareckson
- Nobody - Not banned but restricted to the "Free Speech Zone"
- "hawk891" - Posting pornography, believed to be a "sock puppet" for someone else

People who have been banned from: hanggliding.org (operated by Jack Axaopoulos)

Brian (Noman)
Tad Eareckson
Warren (Free)
Scott Wise (Wingspan34)
Bob Kuczewski (bobk)
Al Hernandez (al hernandez)
Soar8hours
Ben Reese
Joe Faust

People who have been banned from: ozreport.com (operated by Davis Straub)

- Tad Eareckson
- Bob Kuczewski (bobk) . . . Note: Bob was temporarily allowed to post only in expulsion topic as "Bob Hawk".
- Dennis D
- Scott Wise (S C Wise)
- Al Hernandez (al hernandez)
- Nobody? RidgeRodent? Steve Davy? . . . Note: From unconfirmed posting on kitestrings.org
- Ben Reese

People who have been banned from: kitestrings.org (operated by Tad Eareckson)

- Bob Kuczewski
- Sam Kellner
- Christopher LeFay
- Lin Lyons
- Orion Price
- Matt Pruett
- Jeff Roberson
- Jim Rooney?
- Swift

ushawks.org (operated by US Hawks Board)

- It's a fake unelected Board of a fake grassroots organization appointed by the only member who has any actual control of operation of anything. Well over nine years now and no hope of anything better on the horizon. And not even the Fake Board was anywhere around when its only actually voting member unanimously voted one to zero for Tad's ban - for violation of no rule even hinted at on the books yet today close to two full US Presidential terms later.

- You and you alone crippled "Nobody"'s Bob Show access for attacking people you didn't want attacked without confirming his actual identity - which everyone knew anyway. You were totally OK with your pet douchebags attacking T** at K*** S****** anonymously.

- "hawk891"...

-- Didn't post ANY "PORNOGRAPHY". He just megaspammed your cult with a bunch of rapid-fire offensive posts. And while I certainly didn't appreciate the tactics he totally had your number and the points he made were totally valid.

-- Sock puppet? BELIEVED to be someone else? So everyone naturally assumed he was their ol' buddy Hawk891 O'Malley they see at Crestline every other weekend of the season? But then the subject came up and it turns out he had no fuckin' clue what they were talking about? He wasn't pretending that "hawk891" was his actual name. It was just a screen name that he used to not reveal his identity. Tons of glider and mainstream forums have tons of members who resemble that remark. He wasn't pretending to represent any position other than his own. Extremely weak to nonexistent representation.

-- If anybody's a sock puppet it's Bob Kuczewski pretending to be a facilitator of a grassroots hang gliding organization while remaining pure Bob Kuczewski at every conceivable opportunity.

-- Funny Kite Strings has never had an attack like that - as ironfistedly as we maintain control over here.

- Also - other than the commercial spam that got onto here in the dinosaur days - no material has ever been taken down from or maliciously edited here by any second party. And the biggest known first person offender by a factor of at least a thousand was Bob Kuczewski while accessing on a nonmember Guest status courtesy.

hanggliding.org (operated by Jack Axaopoulos)

- You didn't include Newton - whom Jack banned...

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=24633
Interview with Davis Straub, Oz Report founder

Jack Axaopoulos - 2012/02/24 15:15:42 UTC

You guys need to PM me when TAD shows up. He is NOT allowed to access this website.

The IP address area matches Tad's old account.
If he comes back again, ill contact his ISP for illegal access which could get his account yanked.

...because he had indisputable proof that he was actually TAD. Even though TAD was on AOL dial-up in 2009 and years beyond and michael170...

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=31781
Another hang check lesson

michael170 - 2014/09/25 04:48:33 UTC

That would be just after I started this thread:

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=24633
FTHI

Then SG gave me the boot because he thought I was Tad.

...later stated that it was actually he - without the slightest hint of dispute by anyone.

- You also didn't include michael170.

ozreport.com (operated by Davis Straub)

- ozreport.com is also (operated by Gerry Grossnegger) - Site Administrator on equal footing with Davis. So Davis can trust twice the number of glider people that Emperor Bob can.

- Why do you note that Bob was temporarily allowed to post only in expulsion topic as "Bob Hawk" while not noting that Bob Kuczewski:
-- had full access to Kite Strings more times than anyone cares to remember on the condition that he wouldn't post
-- immediately and profusely violated the crap outta the agreement every single time
-- deleted and heavily altered content of posts as he pleased while not affording his minions similar unrestricted freedom of speech

- Nobody? RidgeRodent? Steve Davy? . . . Note: From unconfirmed posting on kitestrings.org

-- Nobody was:
--- NEVER a Davis Show screen name.
--- the original screen name Steve Davy used on Kite Strings before having it changed to Steve Davy
--- as you and everyone and his dog goddam well know the screen name Steve Davy used as a Bob Show subject

-- RidgeRodent

--- There was no RidgeRodent on The Davis Show or anywhere else - the ID was Ridgerodent.

--- Ridgerodent:
---- launched probably the most critically important thread in the world history of the sport:
----- http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24846
----- Is this a joke ?
---- clearly, unambiguously, beyond any question identified himself 2011/08/25 05:40:20 UTC as Steve Davy - 88875 in the course of that thread

kitestrings.org (operated by Tad Eareckson)

- Saying "operated by Tad Eareckson" is a deliberate misrepresentation. Zack C is the Site Administrator and founder and has and has always had ultimate power over and control of the forum. I'm one of two Administrators and one of eighteen Moderators. I just choose to post here a lot more prolifically than others. (Multiples of all others combined if you're just counting posts, unfortunately. And I don't wanna even think about the volume.)

- Jim Rooney? What's your source to justify putting him on there even with a question mark? No, hell would hafta freeze several times over for me to give his admission a millisecond's worth of consideration. But if you start down that road you don't have enough bandwidth to include names in that category. And he would never post in any environment in which he doesn't have an Administrator who'll cut wires to keep him afloat. And u$hPa finally realized way too late what a massive liability he is to them (for the polar opposite reason I am) so that'll never again happen. Last detectable glider environment pulse: 2017/01/31 03:15:17 UTC.

Please take him off. I don't want his name anywhere near mine in a context like that. I want him loudly proclaiming me to be a convicted pedophile who makes his skin crawl. Harder to find a better endorsement.

- Swift. There's never been a member or even applicant here by that identity. Now if you mean the individual whom everyone and his dog now know is Swift then yeah, I banned him. But not for the reason you deliberately and totally falsely claimed I did. And I fully reinstated him complete with full Moderator designation, access, control the next day. And to maintain him on that list without so much as an asterisk is deliberately misleading.

Everybody assumes that all bans - and three month suspensions - are always lifetime 'cause everywhere else they always are. And it's pretty common for relevant posts and threads to get deleted and/or shredded. Not here.

So... Fix your listings or don't. Either way Kite Strings and Yours Truly come out ahead.
---
Correction - 2019/10/13 14:30:00 UTC

Got a note from Steve - 2019/10/13 04:59:34 UTC - that I had his u$hPa member number wrong. Had it as 78142 versus the correct 88875 that now appears above. Went into WTF mode for a few moments until I figured it out.

I've compiled in a word processing file all the Davis Show traffic from the:

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24534
It's a wrap

prequel to the Zack Marzec pro toad inconvenience fatality through the we'll-probably-never-really-understand-what-happened Flight Park Mafia cover-up crap. Also relevant Jack Show crap.

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24846
Is this a joke ?

Jim Rooney - 2011/08/25 05:42:28 UTC

I'm Member #78142
To whom am I speaking?
I'm an instructor, so I can verify your name/number against the USHPA database.

Ridgerodent - 2011/08/25 05:48:31 UTC

88875

Steve Davy

Accidentally copied and pasted the wrong number - it was still highlit when I checked. Had the scummiest little piece o' shit the sport will ever see confused with one of the best and most valuable individuals the sport will ever see.

Extremely sorry 'bout that.

But it was sure no accident or coincidence that we had those two extremes in such immediate proximity. It was totally inevitable.

[Tad Eareckson]

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3522
Tad Eareckson bans Swift for position on Global Warming

Bob Kuczewski - 2019/10/29 13:16:32 UTC

More misrepresentation at Tad's site:

Tad Eareckson - 2019/10/28 22:56:52 UTC

The mainstream is constantly bending over backwards to pretend we don't exist but that's really just confirmation that we have done, are doing, and can continue to do a lot of damage. The Bob Show has rock star status compared to Kite Strings. And Bob also bends over backwards to pretend we don't exist.

Just search our forum for "kitestrings" and you'll find over 150 posts referencing Tad's web site throughout its entire history of its existence from 2011 up through last month (September 2019). About half of those posts are my own (including this one). Yet Tad will still makes a statement like this:

And Bob also bends over backwards to pretend we don't exist.

Anyone who believes anything Tad says should seek confirmation from a second source.

Bob Kuczewski - 2019/10/29 13:16:32 UTC

More misrepresentation at Tad's site:

More than a bit ironic given that...

- The title of this thread is "Tad Eareckson bans Swift for position on Global Warming" which is misrepresentative total bullshit, there's never been a "Swift" ID on Kite Strings, the individual we all know to be Davis Show Swift isn't banned and has full Moderator access and privileges.

- Over at:

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=599
Banned of Brothers

you include Jim Rooney but not Donald Trump, Thomas Jefferson, and the Easter Bunny. Please explain your justification.

- It's not Tad's site. It's still Zack C's site - as it's always been. And I view it as the site of anyone with a positive contribution to the sport to make.

Just search our forum...

Our fake grassroots hang gliding organization.

...for "kitestrings"...

Try searching it for "Kite Strings" - 'cause it's two words and always has been.

...and you'll find over 150 posts referencing Tad's web site...

Check out this dedicated "Bob Show" topic. With this one 1032 posts. Better part of seven times the figure.

...throughout its entire history of its existence from 2011...

It came into public existence with Zack's 2010/11/23 05:23:34 UTC post.

...up through last month (September 2019). About half of those posts are my own (including this one). Yet Tad will still makes a statement like this:

And Bob also bends over backwards to pretend we don't exist.

I was official certified Jack Show Poison-To-The-Sport while you and Scott were still happily in bed with the proprietor of the worlds largest hang gliding coffee shop crafting an even better u$hPa. And I see my name being conspicuously excluded from lists of individuals you allege to have made / be making positive contributions to the sport all the fuckin' time.

Anyone who believes anything Tad says should seek confirmation from a second source.

- And if you find a SECOND source on anything you're totally good to go. Like if Quest is using the same Standard Aerotow Weak Link that Wallaby is.

- Yeah, check my stuff. Brian, Steve, Tad check my stuff all the time, find mistakes, make corrections.

- Funny you're not saying anything about total douchebags like Davis, Trisa, Dennis, Cragin, Ryan...

- Should be easy to find something more substantive than that. Go for it.

Check out:

http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2467
weak links

Marc Fink - 2007/05/19 12:58:31 UTC

Tad--you have in fact made many erroneous statements concerning accidents--mostly to back up your convictions of the faulty nature of towing. The simple fact is that hundreds of thousands of tows using weaklinks in their present configuration successfully bely your contentions that we're all crazy for towing that way.

Simply put, your statements are irresponsible and are based on your personal interpretations.

I am a tow operator--as well as a "towee." I also do aerotow tandems. Using greenline or similar line, which generally tests at 125 lbs +- 50 lbs is widely accepted because it simply works well and relatively predicatably for the enormous range of conditions and applications in towing. If this weren't true, then accident rates would be much higher and these kinds of weaklinks would have been abandoned along time ago.

A 400lb (towline) load limit for a solo tow is absurd.

and:

http://airtribune.com/2019-big-spring-nationals/info/details__info
http://airtribune-production.s3.amazonaws.com/media/contest/files/2019/07/GTxd6mT4AIn8.pdf

2019 Big Spring Nationals - 2019/07

Weaklinks of 140 and 200 (280 and 400 towline) pounds will be available and provided by the organizers. Weaklinks provided by the organizers must be used by the competitors.

When do I start getting credited for going to war on a global scale and mostly single-handedly against all that Hewett inspired lunatic bullshit? (While you were in bed with Dennis and John Heiney preventing me from doing much serious damage to the sport.)

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30971
Zach Marzec

Swift - 2013/02/27 14:22:49 UTC

Zack wasn't "sitting on the couch" when a cheap piece of string made the decision to dump him at the worst possible time.

[Tad Eareckson]

Didn't take too long for me to stumble across a reasonably good example of what I was talking about - one posted a wee bit over eleven and a quarter hours (11:16:48) prior to my last submission.

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2967
Hang Glider Basic trainer thoughts

Bob Kuczewski - 2019/10/29 05:17:35 UTC

By the way, those last sentences provide a good way of imagining the proper relationship between the other ("doppleganger") forums and the U.S. Hawks. Jack's entire forum is essentially a U.S. Hawks Blog Forum run by Jack. Think about it. Jack can make up whatever "Bob and Scott and Joe and USHGRS" rules he wants.

Jack doesn't have a "Bob and Scott and Joe and USHGRS" rule. He has a Bob, Scott, Tad, related people, their material and organizations rule. And the time stamp for Tad was 2009/11/10 00:45:32 UTC. How 'bout you, Scott, Joe?

The mainstream wants Tad and his organization written out of the history of the sport. (Also Donnell Hewett - for opposite reasons.) And you're helping them 'cause you wanna be the replacement mainstream. And you're having some success by employing similar tactics.

2019 HangGliding.Org Simplified Rules and Policies

ALL SUCH POSTS WILL BE IMMEDIATELY DELETED.

If it's a rule then why do you just keep deleting the posts? How come you don't ban the offenders?

This website is a small private business just like your local coffee shop. No different than any other business you visit on a daily basis, big or small. Anyone showing a pattern of abuse or harassment that would cause them to be thrown out of their local coffee shop can expect the same treatment here, including personally attacking or harassing the customers, or the business owner.

Permanently expel them from the worlds largest small private coffee shop.

Remember:

Please treat the admin as a regular user. As long as you follow the rules, there is NO CHANCE you will banned because you disagree with the admin. The admin would like to be part of this community too without having to walk on egg shells because people think his word holds more weight for whatever reason. It does not. But the admin will do his job as moderator when he has to. But please follow the rules and don't make him do it, he doesn't enjoy that part.

And now:

Anyone showing a pattern of abuse or harassment that would cause them to be thrown out of their local coffee shop can expect the same treatment here, including personally attacking or harassing the customers, or the business owner.

Even if 100.00 percent of the active customers are astronomically opposed to whatever crap the local coffee shop owner happens to be pulling no one is permitted to whisper a syllable about it. And Joe Hang Glider "Pilot" is perfectly content to eat this shit in exchange for the privilege of hanging out in this heavily enforced friendly Hang Glider pilot community to discuss hang gliding.

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3533
Oz Report for Sale?

Bob Kuczewski - 2019/10/27 19:54:42 UTC

Hmmmm ...

Maybe someone should offer to buy hanggliding.org since I don't think Jack Axaopoulos even flies any more. I can't recall the last time I've seen him post anything about a flight of his own. Furthermore, traffic has been way down on hanggliding.org over the years. I guess it doesn't help that he keeps kicking some of the most productive people in the sport off his site and keeping the rest in fear of offending him.

And if Jack won't sell, then maybe someone should just go buy USHPA out. There must be a few wealthy people left in the sport of hang gliding.

I started in on that douchebag colony 2009/04/30 11:51:11 UTC. I've NEVER seen any evidence of current flying. Think Rooney. Used his status as Ridgely tug driver to degrade any and all he could.

http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2467
weak links

Jim Rooney - 2007/07/22 22:30:28 UTC

I've heard it a million times before from comp pilots insisting on towing with even doubled up weaklinks (some want no weaklink). I tell them the same thing I'm telling you... suck it up. You're not the only one on the line. I didn't ask to be a test pilot. I can live with your inconvenience.

You don't tell a million comp pilots to suck it up if you have any aspirations of participating in hang gliding other than driving tandem thrill rides and running scooter tow landing clinics to help everyone get his flare timing perfected.

Me... Last flight 2008/10/12 - eleven years plus eighteen days ago. I have no desire to fly these things ever again 'cause mainstream glider people thoroughly disgust me.

P.S. Pretty sick at the moment. Did 101.5°F last evening, down to 99.1 now - so hopefully...

[Tad Eareckson]

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=3588
Frank Politics

Warren Narron - 2019/11/05 02:37:17 UTC

What about global warming, Bob?
If the world ends in ten years that's not good for hang gliding, eh?

And the world won't have ended in ten years and then you'll be able to continue illustrating what a clueless bunch of total douchebags are those of us of the persuasion that we have a global catastrophe of our making rapidly continuing to spin out of control. And then another ten years after that you'll be able to say the same thing.

It's all politics and all leftist seem to be authoritarian.

If you think all of us lefties are authoritarian just keep watching what the atmosphere can and will do.

That isn't an insult, it's just an observation.

Glad you're able to make SOME observations.

Bob Kuczewski - 2019/11/05 02:43:07 UTC

More record flights for the Sothwest Texas Hang Gliders?

No Bob. You need several issues coming together to make things happen in the flatlands:
- low humidity
- daytime/solar surface heating
- max overnight cooling

CO2 is a greenhouse gas. It traps daytime heat in the atmosphere and likewise prevents it from radiating back out into space overnight. And H20 is also a greenhouse gas.

We're heating up the atmosphere and oceans and putting more moisture in the air so in the early afternoon the thermals aren't going up very fast or very high 'cause the air in them isn't all that much lighter than all the rest of the crap.

Our SPECTACULAR days at Ridgely tended to be May through early June and September through early October. And if those assholes hadn't gone extinct you'd still be watching the flights get crappier and crappier.

This sport is ENTIRELY dependent upon what goes on with the atmosphere. And what's going on with the atmosphere IS rapidly changing - to the extent that you'll now have a hard time finding anybody on the douchebag side still claiming otherwise. And good freakin' luck finding anybody...

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=36488
weather changes

Mike Bomstad - 2019/06/26 14:47:51 UTC

This is the worst season since Ive been flying.
Very odd weather, unreliable forecasts. Unusual wind velocities and directions.
We broke the planet

...anywhere in this sport talking about a benefit having fallen his way. In fact the only people I can think of pointing to a benefit are the oil drillers who've just had the Arctic Ocean opened up to them by virtue of the disappearance of the north polar icecap.

[Tad Eareckson]

http://ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3547
ACA (Torrey) suing Margie for posting City Council Video

Bob Kuczewski - 2019/11/23 09:34:03 UTC

I just got home after a long day at work which itself was after a difficult day in court.

I won't comment at this time other than to post the judge's ruling and say that I was disappointed in my own presentation. I had lots of evidence and counter arguments to Saldans's false claims. But I could not find the words.

Really sorry to hear that Bob. That situation totally sucks. However...

A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.

The lawyer is the professional who can find the words 'cause that's his profession and he's not the one under direct fire in the situation.

And...

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3588
Frank Politics

Bob Kuczewski - 2019/11/21 05:43:10 UTC

I voted for Reagan twice, and Trump once (so far), so you really can't say I'm a leftist.

Warren Narron - 2019/11/26 02:18:58 UTC

I never voted for Reagan but did vote for Trump because he was not Hillary.

You guys helped put a Gabe Jebb clone into the most powerful office on the planet. That son of a bitch can't get through three sentences without telling a minimum of seven lies at least two of which contradict each other. So you - along with (other) legitimate recreational sport aviation interests - are getting exactly what you and Warren asked for in the voting booth.

http://ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3615
Jack Axaopoulos and the 2019 deaths at Torrey

Bob Kuczewski - 2019/12/01 21:30:56 UTC

In fact, it appears that ALL of the posts by myself and Scott Wise have been deleted by Jack Axaopoulos. That amounts to a wholesale destruction of years (maybe decades) of documented history in the sport of hang gliding. It's the kind of massive cover up that can only happen with corrupt site operators in the so called "Information Age".

I'm feeling a good bit slighted not to have all of my posts deleted from the worlds largest hang gliding community. I'd argue that I'm a helluva lot more poisonous to the sport than you two guys put together times ten.

However...

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=11497
Aerotow release options?

That thread was a major chunk of world hang gliding history. It was MINE, ran 182 posts from 2009/04/12 02:08:10 UTC to 2009/07/04 13:48:47 UTC at which point Jack locked it down 'cause he was getting his stupid lying ass kicked, was vandalized by the deletion of ten/all of Scott's posts and (previously) five/all of his post ratings.

For the record for the time being... Scott's posts:

2009/04/13 17:56:51 UTC - 2009/04/13 18:20:19 UTC - 2009/04/13 19:44:54 UTC - 2009/04/13 21:40:51 UTC - 2009/04/13 23:43:54 UTC
2009/04/15 17:00:57 UTC - 2009/04/15 17:17:31 UTC - 2009/04/15 17:34:37 UTC - 2009/04/30 12:56:56 UTC - 2009/05/06 19:50:18 UTC

and ratings:

2009/04/13 16:23:30 UTC - 2009/04/15 17:45:26 UTC - 2009/05/04 20:29:11 UTC - 2009/06/30 00:57:32 UTC - 2009/07/02 19:29:32 UTC

The thread's currently drifted back at Page 356...
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewforum.php?f=16&start=8875
...and has racked up 41238 hits. I may put an archive of it up here if I ever feel enough motivation.

[Tad Eareckson]

http://ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3624
Lilienthal replica biplane

Bob Kuczewski - 2019/12/29 16:51:53 UTC

Different hang gliding forums seem to have different levels of reverence for the history of what people have posted. The worst among them is hanggliding.org which has destroyed tremendous amounts of important history of the sport just because Jack Axaopoulos didn't like it. A close second worst is ozreport.com which has also removed entire subforums tbat Davis Straub didn't like. Tad's kitestrings.org is much better, but even Tad couldn't resist the temptation to move posts that weren't aligned with his agenda in certain topics.

Yeah Bob, you got my number. That's EXACTLY what I did.

A highly respected long longtime contributing Kite Strings member in good standing started making all these posts that weren't aligned with my agenda. And I knew it wasn't proper or ethical but I just couldn't resist the temptation to move posts that weren't aligned with my agenda in certain topics. I was weak. It was a failing of character. I have a hard time sleeping now, haunted as I am about the depravity of my actions. But there's nothing I can do about it at this point. I'm trapped.

I've also been unable to resist the temptation to move posts that weren't aligned with my agenda in certain other topics. Mostly my own but also a few of totally innocent participants who have no agendas. This usually happens when I start posting in a general area topic, things ramp up and/or diverge, and I belatedly realize I should've started a new special topic to address more specific issues. Examples:
- Blue Sky Scooter Towing
- 2015/03/27 Jean Lake crash
- Swarovski ATX/STX spotting scope system
- Pokhara Dragonfly

The agenda of the founders of Kite Strings - Zack C and Yours Truly - was initially to reform the sport of hang gliding mostly by getting in line with non opinion based aeronautical theory and engineering. It didn't take all that long to understand why that would never happen within the span of any foreseeable century so now it's mostly to document incompetence, stupidity, corruption, criminally negligent behavior and hopefully help the odd individual get things right here and there.

Your agenda... Seven and a half months shy of a decade now and there's still just one finger with access to the button. But lots of opinions welcome with open arms. Also a very safe place for people of varying ages to visit - although after near a decade you still can't document a single person of a varying age actually having visited there.

Pretty sure that's also true of The Davis Show, the worlds largest hang gliding community, any other glider forum you care to name. But do keep up the outstanding work in that particular area.

Zack C - 2011/12/17 14:56:03 UTC

You continually misrepresent Tad's statements...

And if you continually misrepresent Tad's statements there's no way in hell you're not gonna continually misrepresent Tad's agenda and the mission of Kite Strings. And the only individuals you're gonna get aligned with and behind you are the wastes of space who are OK with that behavior.

I don't touch a byte of anyone's posts without their permission.

Yeah? You touched 26 posts of mine and one of Steve's out of their original topics, wadded them up together, tossed them and permanently locked them down in Bob's Basement / Off-Mission Discussions toilet without our permission.

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=807
Banned Posts from SWTHG Forum

So do us a big favor and shut the fuck up about how The Bob Show really does honor the free speech of its members and how respectful you are in treating other individuals' work and contributions.
---
P.S. - 2019/12/30 13:05:00 UTC

Posts, authors (in order of first appearance), totals stats on the Kite Strings topics to which Bob was referring:

http://www.kitestrings.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=92
Breaking USHPA's Monopoly Control of Flying Sites
048 - Bob
017 - Steve
068 - Tad
002 - Brian
001 - Joe
136

http://www.kitestrings.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=94
The Tad Show
004 - Bob
001 - miguel
003 - Tad
008

[Tad Eareckson]

Warnarr - 2012/07/08 21:30:59 UTC

Here's where you and Davis Straub are both pushing the same propaganda.
He and you were both indoctrinated to believe what you believe.

Davis Straub, is a global-elitist wannabe that believes his type should rule the world. Al Gore, should tax you for breathing and little children should cry when they see construction.

Whether you know it or not, that is also what you are promoting.

Where is your proof?
That its hot out? In July?

Show me your scientific proof/connection that man's small contribution of CO2 in the big picture of global gasses causes destruction of the planet.
How will trillions in taxes to Al Gore and globalist bankers cure it?

Do you feel like crying when you see new construction because bunnies are going to die?

Show me your scientific proof/connection that man's small contribution of CO2 in the big picture of global gasses causes destruction of the planet.

Nah Warren, you nailed it eight years back. We've contributed zilch to atmospheric CO2 levels; the planet isn't getting warmer; icecaps aren't melting; glaciers aren't receding; islands, marshes, beaches aren't drowning; hurricanes aren't becoming more frequent and devastating; mass extinction isn't ramping up... The planet's never been in better shape and the long term outlook's never been rosier.

How will trillions in taxes to Al Gore and globalist bankers cure it?

Sleazy lying sonuvabitch. Can you even IMAGINE what kinda shape we'd be in if someone of his character had made it into the White House? Makes my skin crawl to even think about it.

Do you feel like crying when you see new construction because bunnies are going to die?

No. Doesn't bother me in the least. They're all dead already. Used to see them in the front yard every time I went out the front door. Haven't seen a single one in the area - hopping around or flattened on the side of the road - for about a decade and a half. So bring on the chainsaws, bulldozers, asphalt, concrete and let's keep Making America even Greater than before. And we have a considerable way to go before we have our oceans sufficiently choked with our plastic garbage.

Feel like crying? More like sickened, depressed, afraid all the time. And no, I don't get anything in the way of a morale boost whenever I see a new parcel of area woodlands being wiped out for more development. Any thoughts on whether there should be any limits to what we do on and with this planet?

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=36488
weather changes

Mike Bomstad - 2019/06/26 14:47:51 UTC

This is the worst season since Ive been flying.
Very odd weather, unreliable forecasts. Unusual wind velocities and directions.
We broke the planet

Do you feel anything negative when an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker disappears forever 'cause we've clearcut our last old growth Cypress forest? Do you feel anything for the people who DO feel something?

https://fieldguides.com/triplists/rgr19.html
FIELD GUIDES BIRDING TOURS: South Texas Rarities 2019

Chris Benesh - 2019/01

LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE (Lanius ludovicianus) - Quite a few shrikes winter in the valley, giving the false impression that the species is doing well. Its numbers are down throughout its range.

[Tad Eareckson]

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3840
[TIL] About Tad Eareckson

Bob Kuczewski - 2013/03/10 18:20:34 UTC

Eventually (and for reasons that I won't full disclose here), it became necessary to ask Tad to leave the US Hawks forum, and he is currently the only person who's been completely banned from the US Hawks.

Don't worry about it Bob.

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2624
President Trump

Bob Kuczewski - 2016/11/09 07:54:02 UTC

Make America Great Again

http://ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3653
Best Wishes to Rush Limbaugh

Bob Kuczewski - 2020/02/05 02:57:19 UTC

President Trump just awarded Rush with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Total HONOR to have received that designation from you. It would've totally creeped me out if our relationship had developed otherwise. I'm just a bit disappointed that I didn't earn that particular gold star a lot sooner.

[Tad Eareckson]

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3679
Comment to the San Diego City Council

Bob Kuczewski - 2020/05/19 07:24:05 UTC

Submitted via web site address above:

Councilmembers, per instructions on the City website, I have submitted a document titled "Member_Term_Ltr_BobKuczewski.pdf" to the City Clerk via email. I would like that document to be included as part of the record of today's meeting. I have also provided links to an 8 minute, 18 second YouTube video taken at the Torrey Pines Gliderport on November 9th, 2014.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLmAzoHE5oM


I would also like that video to be included in the record of today's meeting.

The letter and the video show the retaliation which has prevented me from hang gliding at the Torrey Pines Gliderport for over 5 years. I was silently documenting a safety violation when I was assaulted and battered by your Torrey Pines concessionaire after my September 2014 expert witness testimony in the Shannon Hamby law suit. I was subsequently expelled from USHPA for my testimony, for filming this violation, for starting a competing club, and for speaking to this Council.

I request that each Councilmember and the City Attorney review these two items for future reference and immediately issue a permit for me to fly at Torrey Pines Gliderport.

I was silently documenting a safety violation when I was assaulted and battered by your Torrey Pines concessionaire after my September 2014 expert witness testimony in the Shannon Hamby law suit.

Bull fucking shit. So many lies and misrepresentations wrapped up and layered in other lies and misrepresentations that one hardly knows where to begin.

You weren't silently documenting a safety violation. You were shooting video of a routine beginning level paragliding class in which zero violations of anything - FAA regs; u$hPa SOPs; federal, state, county, city laws or ordinances; park rules - were being committed. Cite something as evidence to the contrary.

You stopped being silent with:

Um ... you should put a helmet on.

in response to Gabe's:

Bob, you gotta get outta here. I'm trying to instruct right now - I don't need you sitting there.

And that was a MASSIVELY inappropriate response. He WAS *TRYING TO* instruct and you were crowding his space and distracting him and interfering with what he was trying to accomplish. And yeah, you WERE within your legal rights to be where you were and say what you did but there's all kinds of outrageous behaviors and speech that we gotta protect in the name of the Constitution which should be universally condemned by civilized rational society - Klan, Nazis, Ken Ham, Westboro Baptist Church...

You weren't assaulted and battered until 55 seconds after the conclusion of that response.

If you're hooked into a glider you're setting a bad example for your students.

So how come you're not citing the FAA reg / u$hPa SOP he's violating? 'Cause you obviously know there isn't anything and all you're trying to do is bait this guy, escalate, incite physical violence?

And who the fuck are you to be telling anybody how they should be flying, kiting, ground handling, crewing, instructing?

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=463
Davis Straub's "Oz Report" Conflict of Interest

Bob Kuczewski - 2011/03/09 02:33:49 UTC

This is going to sound cold, but I believe people have a right to make their own choices. I don't want a "nanny state" where anyone is telling me what I can and can't do ... for my own good. The sport of hang gliding would surely not exist if that thinking were carried to its logical extreme. There's something bred into all living things that urges them toward taking some degree of risk in their lives. Those who want to forbid that risk are essentially snuffing out the human spirit itself. I can't support that. I do support information. I support good information. I support exposing bad information. But I don't support dictating what anyone can or can't do. The fundamental principle of economics (and evolution) is two words: "people choose".

Neither you nor anybody else has a dust particle's worth of data to determine what role helmets play in hang and paragliding safety. If we look real hard we can probably find a few incidents in which helmets have undeniably prevented serious injury. But we can probably find more incidents in which they’ve precipitated it. A chin guard can catch and get a neck broken. Weight and inertia can be critical issues on impact. Fatigue, overheating...

My first and long time hang gliding helmet was a popular hang gliding specific soft shell with an aft projection which extended back over your neck a bit. Looked pretty good on the drawing board. Problem was that the front edge of the helmet got pushed down in front of your eyes. Anybody see any downsides to that one? But I never saw an advisory in the magazine - or anywhere else.

I can name you two incidents in which people unhooked to retrieve helmets and forgot about the unhooking part. Tim Schwarzenberg died, Gilbert Aldrich was demolished almost beyond description. If they'd realized they'd left them in the closet back home and said fuckit what are the chances that they'd have crashed and burned in situations in which helmets would've made positive differences?

By that same "logic" all this:

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is a safety violation 'cause li'l Zack is gonna think it'll now be OK for him to now hop on a PG solo and duplicate all the flying he's just seen and experienced.

And now that I think about it... I don't recall a single incident from the history of hang gliding in which anyone was killed or seriously injured via head trauma who wasn't wearing a helmet or it was claimed that the helmet he was using was inadequate and he'd have ended up in way better shape otherwise. And I strongly suspect that's also the case in paragliding - in which it's a pretty neat trick to crash head first.

Gabriel Jebb is demonstrating "kiting" to students while not wearing a helmet.

For what it's worth every student we see in the video is wearing a helmet - while NONE are hooked into gliders.

And do you know any students who are likely to eschew helmets in situations in which they're likely to get airborne because they saw an instructor not wearing a helmet in this situation? And should such an individual be flying anything anyway?

Paraglider chick...

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...and dust devil at launch. She's not hooked in so I guess she doesn't need a helmet.

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She'd have probably been happy to have had one on at this point.

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So how come we don't hear you screaming for mandatory helmet wearing for all personnel in the vicinity of PG launches and LZs regardless of connection status? Maybe extend it for hang gliders...

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...while we're at it.

P.S. And just how many dust devils have you seen at Torrey? (And for the record Paraglider Chick (Vanja Eggesvik) wouldn't have fared any better with a helmet while Chelan Good Samaritan would've majorly.)

Can you or anybody else cite a single incident from Torrey in which a paraglider kiter has had the slightest unpleasant issue? Goddam good bet the answer is no 'cause if you could you would've already. If you have the skill to get one of those canopies up and over your head it's a total no-brainer that you have what you need to collapse and flatten it in a heartbeat.

City park, I'm standing here, I'm far enough away, I'm not bothering you, Gabe.

You obviously bloody well are. I can't imagine ANYBODY *NOT* being bothered by bullshit like that. You "CAUGHT" Gabe demonstrating to students being clipped in / kiting without helmet, he knows he's been "CAUGHT" - so what more are you trying to accomplish? Provoke him into assault and battery? Well that went well - but you're the one who got hauled away in handcuffs and he was never issued so much as a five dollar ticket.

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/jun/17/cover-keep-out/
Bob Kuczewski - arrested at Torrey Pines glider port again | San Diego Reader

Thom Senzee - 2015/06/17

Kuczewski confesses he was incorrect when, in the video, he insists that his adversary is breaking national guidelines set by the United States Hang-gliding and Paragliding Association by not wearing a helmet while teaching the kiting technique.

And yet here we are still/again... (Can't begin to tell you how happy it's made me to have just found that one.)

For decades AT has been the most effective means of getting gliders in the air for actual quality flying. But that resulted in a bunch of stupid power heads to come back into the sport and take control of a huge chunk of it. And for most of that period the only safety violation possible to commit was for an average weight glider to connect with anything heavier than a half G weak link. And then for most of another decade after 2004/09 when the FAA pulled us in under sailplane AT regs and put our Standard Aerotow Weak Link under legal minimum the only safety violation possible to commit was STILL to dial up a bit into the legal range.

Gotta love these sports. Any asshole can call anything he feels like a safety violation and put up ironclad regulations to eliminate the fake threat. So now we have the Kuczewski Hook-In Regulation on the books till the end of time. There was never any incident record that justified its implementation - so u$hPa felt safe implementing it. And it won't change the way anybody operates and u$hPa will never enforce it. 'Cept now they have another weapon they can use selectively against anyone they don't like.

[Tad Eareckson]

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2256
Status of David Beardslee Banishment

Bob Kuczewski - 2020/05/24 13:27:42 UTC

It's also good to have hit upon this topic for a number of other reasons. I had forgotten about Brad Hall's rotten gag order "deal" that he tried to get Dave Beardslee to sign. I'm glad that Dave declined that one. It also reminds me how chummy Brad Hall was with David Jebb. I didn't know it at the time because I'd gotten Brad Hall's name and phone number as a referral by Joe Greblo. I don't know if Joe knew how close they were either. In the end, Brad Hall disgraced himself several times. Both GlideJunkie and Councilwoman Donna Frye outed him for his behind-the-scenes treachery.

The Joe Greblo who permits you to fly his beach the two days a week on which he's sure he won't be using it?

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=1389
Where are the Accident Reports for the two fatalities 2008?

Joe Greblo - 2009/04/11 15:16:54 UTC

Accident reports for both Richard (Seymour) and Jeff (Craig) have been submitted to the USHPA. I sent one in for Richard and the SHGA has a copy in their files. I suspect accident reports were submitted by more than just one individual. For Richard's accident, I personally have a copy of the one I sent in and one that Rome sent. I'd be happy to share them with any current club member that would like to read them in my presence, but I don't think that they will be published out of deference to the families.

This is because accident reports are submitted by simple witnesses to the accident and not professional accident investigators. These witnesses are often other pilots, or simply spectators or passers by. The content often includes personal opinions of why the accident happened; opinions that do not necessarily hold true.

The USHPA often publishes summaries of accident reports in an effort to educate pilots as to specific dangers or accident trends. I don't know if a summary covering Richard or Jeff's accidents will appear in a future issue of Hang Gliding Magazine.

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=32681
Tandem crash in LV (speculation thread)

Mark G. Forbes - 2015/03/30 23:29:59 UTC

Please, no speculation

News reports are of little use since they're written by people who have no idea how our sport works or what is typical.

http://forum.hanggliding.org/viewforum.php?f=24
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