End of an era
The Florida Record has noticed the legal wrangling that we experienced with Mr Daniel Bernath calling it “a bizarre case”. They don’t know the half of it.
In 2015, Bernath filed a copyright-infringement suit against Mark Cameron Seavey, later amending the complaint to include the infliction of emotional distress. Seavey, an inactive attorney and media specialist, blogger and reporter for the American Legion, answered that suit by filing a claim against Bernath alleging libel and defamation.
The American Legion interceded and filed a cross-complaint.
Bernath alleged that a blog run by Seavey illegally published photos belonging to him and that Seavey was part of a terrorist plot that tortured veterans and hosted child pornography on his blog.
Allegations against Bernath included making false claims about being a former U.S. Navy SEAL, posing as a U.S. Navy chief petty officer and engaging in a harassment campaign against Navy SEAL veterans who exposed him, including cyberstalking.
On Dec. 27, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida awarded Seavey $500,000, special damages of $135,000 and attorney fees of $195,000. The American Legion was awarded $300,000 in general and punitive damages. The total amount was approximately $1.3 million.
I don’t know who this Mark Cameron Seavey is, or what blog he runs, but I’d like to be his friend when Bernath’s estate settles with him.
Here’s the magistrate’s recommendation on the case, if you haven’t seen it;
Magistrate Report on Damages (Doc 270)-1 by JonnLilyea on Scribd
I also have the 166-page insanity saved somewhere, along with the lawsuit he filed against 50 of us in Oregon which was tossed by the court.
Category: Bernath
End of an error.
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Put that on the headstone.
I’d vote for “Complete Failure”
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(((OVER)))
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again.
OVER and OUT!
rgr1480
(aka 1/50)
roger Roger.
This seems apropos:
So, I normally don’t worry too much about bad language, political correctness etc. I’ve got to ask now though, why the hell are you guys using echoes/((())) which is used by Neo-Nazis to imply their usual brand of stupidity?
I don’t think you guys are skinheads, but anyone that isn’t a regular might get the wrong idea.
yes i am actually a 1/2 black 1/2 Puerto Rican Neo Nazi. its just for Emphasis, nothing Nazi like about it snowflake
I am:
1/4 Connacht
1/4 Leinster
1/4 Munster
1/4 Ulster
100% Irish
0 % Neo and/or Nazi
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that is all
Then up comes the captain, and a man of great fame
Straightways he asks me my country and name;
Well, I told you before and tell him again
That me father and mother were two Kerrymen
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Never heard that before! Why do skinheads get ((( )))©™®? I maintain that we should not stop until after receiving a cease and desist letter from the skinhead “lawer”….
He’s assumed room temperature.
Maybe I like using ®™️ because it drives thin-skinned types up the wall and every TAH Regular ®™️ knows one needs to have a thick skin to hang with this crowd!
(((OVER))))
First, some of us are skinheads, although not by choice. Second, anyone who might get the wrong idea deserves to get the wrong idea.
” … some of us are skinheads … ”
DUDE! Where’s the love!!??
It’s folliclly challenged …
Fuck that PC crap, I’m a bald Mick!
Hey!
I’m a Mick with a full head of luxurious, flowing hair!
I’m no skinhead, just an All-American Mutt. Part Limey, Scot, Mick, Kraut and Polack!
No skinhead here either (though it’s rapidly approaching, I fear). Just Limey, Scot, Kraut, Russkie, and Injun!
I am neither a guy nor a skinhead.
so even parentheses are racyss now?
Who knew?
Some snowflake said the other day that when you think you are not razzist, then you are unconsciously razzist, if and only if you are also a Cracker. (So Sgt Fon gets a pass.
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poor parentheses…they had no idea.
But then, grammar and punctuation probably do trigger the average SJW
((((((((((KMRIA))))))))))
Mmmmm …
Kiss My Rosy Irish 4th-point-of-contact?
Close. Pretty sure you substitute “Royal” for Rosy and you’re there.
((((The Dead Man)))) = ((((Dead Head))))
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? ((((OVER))))
::This is not the stupidest response I’ve seen on TAH, but it’s in the top 1,0000.::
Dude… what’s the problem? I’m an “honorary” brother from another mother (appointed in 1985 by an Army SSG while attending 91-V school).
So I have that going for me… which is nice!
(((That))) (((is))) (((the))) (((dumbest))) (((thing))) (((that))) (((I’ve))) (((read))) (((today.))) (((OVER)))
Somewhat like Icarus, Daniel Bernath sued too close to The Hair and got burned. Hack is just waiting for Weird Al Yankovic to rework the Don McClean classic into “The Day The Lawsuit Died”.
Interesting idea . . . .
Long, long lime ago
I can still remember when light aircraft
Had fuel and could fly . . .
Hmm. Might be able to do something with that one day, time and “green-light” from Jonn permitting.
(smile)
Daniel Bernath’s tombstone will read “ He Never Met A Man That He Didn’t Sue”.
Another Jeep at this point would just be overkill.
So, on the priority of debits that have to be paid by the estate, where do court judgements fall?
Fairly low in the pecking order, I’m sorry to say, but it all depends on what his debt situation was. If he was as good a money manager as he was a lawyer, it doesn’t look good. There is always hope. Maybe his wife was the money manager, or he had a professional.
I will say this; that guy lived in the smallest home of any lawyer I’ve ever known. That does not speak well of his income or his money management.
I would check the interior walls of that small home.
Hopefully he left a lot of polyester ties and leisure suits that can be liquidated for cash money. That’s what Vikings do.
Don’t they also drink Thunderbird, wear spandex, and declare bankruptcy?
I have observed the “fortunes” of disbarred attorneys for over 30 years. None of the ones I know about ended up well off after they had been disbarred for several years. One I am familiar with ended up dying in prison because drug dealing was the only way he could make a living after being disbarred. I doubt Birdbath left much of an estate. His house and it furnishings will be exempt from execution under Floriduh law, in any event.
Interesting:
http://www.fort-myers-beach-observer.com/page/content.detail/id/632871/Daniel-Alan-Bernath.html?nav=5013
He’s being cremated, will there be a raffle to see who gets to flush them?
Don’t want to be down wind of that burn.
They should have preserved his brain, for “science.” There was certainly something wrong with the way it operated the “life support unit” for DB’s Bunghole.
Shortest Obituary ever.
I guess that the family was afraid that the coconuts and bushes would be able to find the NoK if they published their names.
The brevity of the obit speaks volumes.
He already has a hot dog suit, what else could he want? The end of a living error indeed!
(((OUT)))
He is being cremated so none of us will have the chance to piss on his grave!
Maybe, maybe not on the cremation. The place does burials, too. He’s not listed among the dearly departed. I don’t wonder why.
Let me know if the service is going to be in Florida, I would love to show up for that and piss on his ern! I can’t wait for Hanoi Jane to croak so I can piss on her grave as well!!
Hanoi Jane can only be done by lottery, after one Veterans’ representative from each of the 50 states and D.C. pisses on her grave or marker first.
I would say that Jonn should be allowed to have the honorary first piss after drinking many shots of rum first, then he can put out his stogie on her grave marker! After that, we can have the lottery winners all line up after drinking a keg or more of American beer! Who gets to take the first ceremonial dump on her grave?
Hanoi Jane? As soon as she gets buried I’d like to show up with some 7′ lengths of 6″diameter PVC pipe and install them as piss tubes over her gravesite.
Don’t forget the gravel and a small screen to keep out the cigarette butts.
…. gravel ….
That’s called a “French drain.” They make it sound so …. sexy.
Roger that,
((((OVER))))
https://goo.gl/images/pUXScV
Hanoi Jane Urinal Sticker image on above link. I first saw this sticker ,in a urinal in Nome , Alaska in 2011 while gold prospecting. I don’t think I despise anyone that opposed the war in Vietnam more than that traitorous bitch. A dump truck full of assorted rotting, festering, deficants poured upon her none too soon grave will still not suffice / be sufficient enough for her skank ass.
“…along with the lawsuit he filed against 50 of us in Oregon which was tossed by the court….”
I was one of the fifty he sued. We should all chip in and get mugs that say “We Survived Bernath And His Fucked-Up Lawsuit, and All We Got Was This Lousy Coffee Mug”…
And the mug should have a CPO rank on it with a NO symbol across it.
Ah, not exactly there CH.
In Hoey v. Bernath … I got a brand new 2016 Ford Explorer, Sport, Ecoboost, fully loaded.
And the satisfaction of documenting in court that he was completely incompetent in court, purposely disrespectful to the bench, a fraud and compulsive liar.
Bravo!
Outstanding, MCPO!
Hot dog!!!
No … that was Cameroon with the Hot Dog suit.
I always dress well in public!
Master Chief, that must have been a “feel good day” to say the least. Well done Sir.
That was a good day, January 22, 2018 was far better.
Good for you, Master Chief!
That’s one expensive fucking coffee mug. At least it would be for me.
I know that an Explorer Mug sounds cool, but just imagine the cost of filling it with coffee, not to mention the mega-size desk and kitchen table one has to have. And those are just for starters.
The NTSB Preliminary Report is also out. https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20180122X32841&AKey=1&RType=Prelim&IType=FA
It is interesting that they mention the debris field as being 750ft long. The RV-12 is not a fast aircraft, so such an extended debris field seems to point to an in flight breakup.
After reading through some on the sport pilot blogs where he mentions ‘fixing’ control cable issues (to the horror of those in attendance), using his iPad to read back his landing speed, or bitching that his propeller was just sitting there and done cracked itself for no good reason, It would not surprise me in the least if something that he ‘fixed’ fell off in flight and that is what caused him to auger in.
At least he had enough fuel to get there this time.
Made it all the way to the crash site on one tank.
a 750 foot debris field? The last thing to go through his mind must have been his ass like when a bug hits a windshield!
He would have survived if only he was wearing that bicycle helmet and reflective vest.
And carrying a loaded and cocked revolver!
I bet he didn’t even bother to wear a PT Belt!!!
((((OVER))))
I’d have to defer to those who know more about the RV-12’s capabilities.
And it would fit his modus operandi to “fix” something incorrectly. Which makes his self-destruction that much more sweet Justice.
I’m not a pilot but common sense and also having studied a few aircraft crashes, not to mention, being on a “bag and tag” (mortuary affairs additional duty) team for a B-1B crash in La Junta Colorado in 1987, it would seem that Danni boy probably didn’t auger in at a high angle and if he was flying “normally”, from the stats below, he was probably cruising about 120 mph.
If he was pretty straight and level and he decided to cut the engine or whatever, he’s going to start hitting the tops of those pines and other trees, it’s a pretty dense forest and that could/should/may explain the disintegration of the aircraft over a wide area.
I can only imagine that the wings go and then the rest of the tail and fuselage etc
RV–12 Performance
Engine Rotax 912ULS
Speeds and ranges in statute mph (sm)
Speed – Gross Weight
Top Speed 135 mph
Cruise (7500’ @ 5500 rpm) 131 mph
Cruise (7500’ @ 5000 rpm) 116 mph
Stall Speed 47 mph
http://wbbh.images.worldnow.com/images/15894164_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=800
At 120mph, and a low-angle impact, I wonder if he had time to realize “I F*kked up big-time” before the shiit-bag hit the propeller (or whatever).
“Flight control continuity was confirmed from all flight control surfaces to the cockpit controls”.
This is a significant statement.
So – not an obvious mechanical failure concerning flight control components.
“No fire” has me wondering if there was no fuel left – or if they just got lucky.
A very significant statement, MCPO, eliminating the suspicion that some one in the terrorist gang had sabotaged the oversized model airplane.
Bingo.
Not sure about an in-flight breakup. From the linked NTSB report:
‘Flight control continuity was confirmed from all flight control surfaces to the cockpit controls.’
This wouldn’t be necessarily be true in the case of an in-flight breakup; flight control continuity would almost certainly be broken/disrupted.
It’s also significant to note that there was no reported post-crash fire.
According to Van’s Aircraft RV-12 Specifications (https://www.vansaircraft.com/public/rv12specs.htm), the RV-12 has a fuel capacity of 20 U.S. gallons. The linked NTSB report states that the aircraft was only airborne for approximately 14 minutes (1200 – 1214 EST), so assuming that the aircraft’s fuel tank was full at take-off, there’s no way that the full 20 gallons of fuel on board would have been consumed in only 14 minutes of flight (that is unless the aircraft had a massive fuel leak in flight). In an aircraft mishap of this nature, it’s highly likely that 20 gallons of relatively low flashpoint AVGAS splashed around the crash site would have ignited and led to a post-crash fire. The fact that no post-crash fire was reported may indicate that the aircraft’s fuel tank did not contain enough fuel to meet the requirements of the intended duration of flight, and subsequent engine fuel starvation due to inadequate fuel on board may have been a causal factor.
In addition, witnesses to the crash also reported in subsequent news reports that they didn’t hear the engine running; they only heard the impact of the aircraft into the trees.
It’s going to be interesting to see what the final NTSB report will say, but from my perspective there may already be some indicators as to what actually happened here.
Deja Vu.
“all over again”
a bit here; a bit there; …. all over.
((OVER))
He used Elmer’s glue for repairs? So his craft came “unglued” in flight?
Just like the pilot.
Just Google it.
Maybe he will be cremated and his ashes dumped in a public toilet, because no one wants his carcass anywhere.
Outliving ones’ foe has its own satisfaction.
Gee, if you find out who this Seavey fellow is, would you let me know, too, Jonn?
Bernath owes a bunch of us some cash.
Hmmm… no tribute page. Maybe they didn’t want people that knew him to write something up and post it.
http://www.harvey-engelhardt.com/tributes
Mark Cameron Seavey is my baby daddy. Momma’s gonna get some new shoes.
It’ll be a good day when I can open TAH and not see that refugee from a dumpster’s face looking at me like a pedofile looks at a playground. May the barbed cock of Satan be forever buried in your squeak hole© BerNuts.
There is a chance that he did run out of fuel. “no fire” There is also a chance that he landed at low enough speed that the fuel tank never ruptured or there was no source for ignition.
After years of insanity, he had exactly enough fuel to take him to the scene of the accident and an end to his foolishness. WTF was wrong with you, man. You were one fucked up asshole. You were at times entertaining but you also tried to ruin the life of good men who did nothing to you.
I have no knowledge of current NTSB investigation (nor I am overly interested), however continuity of all flight controls were verified. Therefore, pilot should have had the ability to control … and considering other factors like … including … and …
The most logical explanation is …
1. Catastrophic power plant and/or airframe failure.
2. Pilot error.
3. XXXX-XXXXXX
Either way, I won’t object to any the findings of the NTSB final report. And, I wont be surprised.
Are you taking bets, Master Blaster? I’d like to put some cash on door number three…
I’ll put you down for 4 all day.
I put down 4 all day.
Well, bye now. Sure ain’t gonna miss you but have to wonder what was wrong with your ability to think and reason when you repeatedly got your ass handed to you.
Cameroon who?
I have no idea what this post is about?
I am so confused.
I thought that was some place in Africa?
Maybe his Hell will be flying into the ground over and over and over…..
I self-identify as a bulldozer.
Not as a feral backhoe?
Maybe, who knows, my brain is feeling a little crumpled and I am having trouble remembering last week.
Is “Gas Tank” still staying thirsty?
i love the smell of aviation fuel in the morning! just fueled up. stay thirsty, my friends!
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/v8QAAOSwQItUIWAd/s-l300.jpg
Even better – forced to face his failures and cruelty for eternity.
“Flight control continuity was confirmed from all flight control surfaces to the cockpit controls”.
This is a significant statement.
I totally missed that part. You are right, of course. Thank you for pointing out the flaw in my hypotheses.
I think I was reading the 750 foot debris field (for an aircraft with 117KPH Vne according the the POH) and thought it was a bit excessive. Maybe the cockpit was filled up with new subpoenas and court orders that just kind of blew around when he went in.
And if you search Google for Daniel Alan Bernath what will does the internet remember as the top hits?
All: TAH – this current thread
Images: Military Phonies Wanted Valor Thief
News: OregonLive.com – Bernath disorderly conduct
Videos: Don Shipley
Thankfully, the internet never forgets…
Wonder if this was going through his noggin?
“Instant Karma’s gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead”
more likely, it was plexiglass, fuselage, and empennage going through his noggin
Or his asshole.
A real pilot over at one of those pilot blogs said:
“Looks like his karma out ran his dogma”.
BAM for the win!
i’m just going to say this, Karma is a bitch and it works both ways. . .
good or bad you get back what what you give out
Amen ^^^^^^
Several months in the hoosegow followed almost immediately by assuming room temperature. Awesome.
Maybe the dipshit found a way to support his wife after he died. After all the lawsuits, he probably didn’t have much left to live on.
I wonder if he ‘policied’ up prior to the crash, with double-indemnity clauses.
Nah………..he wasn’t that honorable.
I remember something about a trust in the past- believe that it was named “Oregon Trail” or something else with the word Oregon in it.
HMCS(FMF): You are right…the Trust was mentioned in one of his many lawsuits:
Case No. 3’13-cv-1778
Daniel A. Bernath, an individual, and as assignee of Oregon Trail Trust vs. Flight Design USA, James Scheibner, Flight Design GmbH, Hillsdale Aero, Inc., and Does 1 through 10 Defendants.
Complaint for Damages
(1) negligence per se;
(2) negligence;
(3) breach of contract;
(4) products liability;
(5) breach of express warranty;
(6) breach of implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose;
(7) breach of implied warranty of merchantability;
(8) negligent misrepresentation;
(9) breach of express warranty under ORS Chapter 72;
(10) fraud;
(11) unfair business practices; Punitive damage and attorney fee request.
So, there was this one time that Mr Bernath was trying to convince one of the witnesses for the CA Bar prosecutors that she could lie for him at the hearing. Then he inadvertently cc’d me in the email. If he hadn’t stormed out of the hearing, tossing his colostomy bag over his shoulder, he would have heard how the prosecutors obtained that email.
Holy sheep shit! YGTBKM, Jonn!
UFB… just UFB.
Talk about DORKING THE SQUEAKHOLE…
Shouldn’t that read “Self-dorking the squeakhole”? (smile)
Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot.
“Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot.”
Except maybe flying into the ground…
Most Excellent!
HE WAS quite the self-dorker, wasn’t he? I bet now in many a Courthouse and Law Firm one can now hear things like “Everyone gets a little bit stupid here and there, just DON’T BE A BERNATH!” or “Yeah, I made a small mistake, but at least I didn’t do a Bernath in the Courtroom.”
I’m no lawyer, disbarred or otherwise, but I’ve watched enough episodes of Law and Order to know that subornation of perjury is bad.
Like, stealing Joboo’s rum bad.
It’s very bad you steal Jobu’s rum… very bad!
Smile!
I’ve reread all the postings listed on TAH under the Category “Bernath” and thought “How ironic” when I reread this one:
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=62634
You are right, Jonn…it IS the end of an era…or as 2/17th Air Cav wrote “End of an Error”…
And the irony of the title of this posting as well:
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=56325#comments
So basically financial ruin and the phony took the easy way out of taking responsibility for his fraud.
“Congratulations” somehow doesn’t seem right; instead I wish my TAH brethren whose lives were affected by DAB a measure of peace, and closure.
As for that strange and twisted man, nothing I can say that hasn’t been said time and again. But one more AMF Dan, won’t hurt.
Thanks AW1 … I’ve had a Shit-Eatin-Grin®©™
on my face ever since reading about his death.
(^___________________^)
I would have said “Cheese-eatin-Grin” … but then I’d be in direct (and losing) competition with Denny Chevalier.
I suspect that the propeller just up and fell off the plane, unexpectedly, spinner hub, everything. Turned him into a glider pilot. If it was just a fuel issue you would have heard he chattering about it on the radio, quite a lit. The radar pings from the pre-mayday suggest an altitude increase, and then a heave up and a lurch down and then a cleat linear progression to the ground. It is also suggestive of a suicide, a event with much foreshadowing. If terms of the media, to get the correct data in circulation a multi-source timeline needs to be compiled and published on TAH, starting is some of the backgrounds of his service, where he grew up, domestic life and refusal to pay child support, and so on. Create an outline, the first entry is the day and place of his birth, then his military time, school time, and the various placed on Earth he shows up, not including his stolen valor shit, or various lawsuits, basically start with the bones first. Then hand on these be the work he did in various placed and at various points of his life, and list how it ended in terms of employment. Then go into his being blocked or disbarred an attorney, his attempt to take over his VFW post, the doctored up pictures both o the VFW website and other webstites, then hook to this the various CRIMINAL cases brought against him for stalking and for violating a protective order and flesh out the criminal cases with lots of links to PDF files of the actual case files. Then as the next to last step add in all of his lunatic, hairbrained civil lawsuits, and as the final step draw the read through, slowly stepping them through the jungle that was his life and his mind. Go slowly, take your time, but also post the basics upright way and add to it over time. Bernath needs to be memorialized as to what happens when veterans steel valor, and what the end result ultimately ends up being. Bernath used every… Read more »
For those who have The Rest of The Story, I second RoF’s suggestions.
Yeah, but *who* is going to do all that work? I doubt Jonn has the time or inclination.
He never made it to 8500 feet, but he seemed to have a great deal of trouble not busting through the 2500 feet be was cleared to maintain by ATC.
http://webtrak5.bksv.com/rsw
Bottom left side, click on “historical”, select 1/22/2018 for date to load, enter 12:13 in the time to start replay box and click on “Set”. Underneath the map will be a play button and slider bar.
On the map, east of Bonita Springs, it reads “CREW Flint Pen Strand”. Just right of that is an aircraft icon. Click on it and you’ll see that it’s N262WS. You’ll also see the airspeed and altitude fluctuating. Now zoom in on that icon.
In the upper right corner when the time gets to 12:14:20, you’ll see the airspeed drop to almost 0 and then increase to 362 MPH.
At 12:15:21 his icon drops off the screen.
To my extremely limited aviation experience, it looks like he stalled the plane and then augered in.
Interesting stuff. I had to open a 2nd screen and toggle to follow the instructions. The a/c he was flying (and parked abruptly) has a stall speed of 47 and a top speed of 135. How, if at all, do you splain the webtrak figures, then?
The way his altitude kept cycling, I’m going to guess that he pulled the nose up, went into a stall (the near 0 MPH). Then the plane goes into a dive (the 362 MPH) and he runs out of altitude before he can straighten things out.
Again, that’s just a guess on my part. I ASS-U-ME that the NTSB investigation will look at the radar data and have accurate speed/altitude information.
ChipNASA posted somewhere above that the top speed for the plane is 135MPH.
If he actually hit that 362 MPH, then he exceeded the speed rating for the plane by a lot.
Bernath was a pioneer. He pushed the envelope in all that he hid. Flying within the norms of aerodynamics and per rating of the aircraft was simply blaise. The world will be far more different without him, certainly less bizarre and children will be safer.
BTW, excellent instructions OAE CPO USN Ret. Also, need decoder ring for your tag. What’s with you water peoples anyway?.
Once the dust settles on this whole DRG mess I’ll decode it for you.
I seriously doubt that aircraft could reach 362 mph. The Vne (the never exceed airspeed) for that aircraft would likely be less than 200 mph. Airspeeds exceeding 200 mph would likely cause structural breakup of the aircraft. The above airspeed info comes from radar returns which I doubt are reliable for a stalled aircraft falling out of the sky.
Maybe the plane decided it had had just about enough of his crap.
I’ve heard of stranger things.
I’m learning more and more about aviation on this blog.
I’d like to know more about flying helicopters but it’s very costly to learn.
If the doc said I only had a few months to live, I might get a helicopter rating, just to have done it while I could.
They talk about Angels having wings but I’m not real sure that they need wings, they already have God’s blessing!
To my knowledge, there’s nothing in scripture about rotary wings, short of dervishes and tornadoes. If they show up with wings, they’re probably the good guys.
This is called phugoid oscillations. My plane is rated for +6 and -5 G forces and while cruising speed is none to fast if handles aerobatics just fine. However, in a spin, you have to keep the control yoke pulled as far as it will travel to remain a stalled configuration.
When recovering from a spin and the incipient dive, you have come out quickly as it will leap from 90 to 190 in a matter of seconds.
In a phugoid oscillation, the extremes of the aircraft performance become more dramatic.
I have no doubt that Bernath never received instruction in stall/spin recovery and the plane ate his lunch. That is what I meant, earlier, when I said that the RV-12 was too much airplane for his experience. It has a fast wing and will be very responsive to control inputs… unlike Cessna 150/152/172/182/210 and the similar range of Piper aircraft, Cherokee 140/160/180/260/300 which are all designed with inherent stability
So what you’re saying, Tallywhagger, is that when my brother gave me a -0- G demo ride in his 1946 Taylorcraft and came out of it without an “event” but rather, very smoothly, my brother was a better pilot at 18 with one year on his license than this bozo was at any time in his life. Would that be a reasonable assessment?
My brother still has that old Taylorcraft, still flies it, and still overhauls the engine and still puts a new cover on it on a regular basis. He has other planes, too, but still has that old plane.
Kind of! Your weight is 1 G, 0 G would be weightless. You can do that on a country road in a Buick. Or a Volkswagen, once you get the speed right for a short hill
I have never flown a Taylorcraft but have seen them flying. My first airplane ride was in a wood & canvas Piper Cub.
For a thrill checkout Bob Hoover demonstrating 1 G rolls with a glass of water on the dash and never spilling a drop!
My brother built two Pietenpol Air Campers from plans, asked me to come get ‘first flight’ photos for him, which I did.
I think he flew at least one of those to Oshkosh’s EAA fly-in one year.
BTW, did your brother put you in the left seat or the right seat?
Right seat.
I took glider lessons to learn how to land a plane with a “dead pilot” and no power. Takes the panic out of flying if you know you can control the aircraft.
I may go back to that some day soon. There is a training group near me that takes you all the way through to testing and licensing. It’s the reason I rattle on about gliders on a regular basis. The Horsa, Hamilcar and Waco CG4A were used as troop and equipment carriers in WWII.
Gliders are on my list, too. Some of my buds fly gyro’s and ultralights.
The ultralights are appealing but I am really steeped in the stick and rudder stuff.
When adventure calls, it’s up to the listener to answer.
On another topic, my paint mare came down with a case of strangles. That was around Jan 20th, she’s starting to show some recovery, abscessed glands are starting to heal.
I had not planned to spend so much on horses in January so I’ll be like Mustang Sally and keep my flat feet on the ground, for a few months.
Are you still keeping horses?
No, I had to give up horse-related stuff some time back when my back gave out. Too many times picking up more weight in grain bags and hay bales than I should have been doing. Now I’m paying for it.
Hiking the trails is good. Take camera along, get many photos of bugs and birds. I am looking forward to birder hikes starting in the spring. Hoping for one at a nearby decommissioned base that is now part of the forest preserve in my county.
One day I hope to have a decent macro lens.
Our stable is a real hoot, young girls, horse girls, trying to offset their boarding lesson expenses by doing daily maintenance.
I kid you not, these girls can pick up 80 lbs with their 100 – 110 lb frames.
Until they see it, folks have no idea just how strong kids are when they’re doing something they want to do.
For unknown reasons, there aren’t any boys in the lesson programs.
Lots of new, good material with digital B&W.
I like both Topaz and OnOne filters. Their raw programs are replacing the Adobe Photoshop era.
I have no issue with CS5 but the fee part, beyond that, was more than I needed.
There is a lot of info in that radar data even to a non-aviation person. Go back and look click by click for each data point and look at the altitude, speed and direction through to the end.
I’m just glad he didn’t take out the SWA plane landing. I wonder if that triggered any NTSB report for a close call?
So in the definition of “Bernathian”, I first propose 1. Extremely arrogant, belligerent, bullying and incapable of telling the truth. 2. Abuses the legal system to bully others and cost them money for no reason at all or for telling the truth about them. 3. Suing others for the results of one’s own negligent actions. 4. Libeling and slandering others while calling it satire. 5. Incurring multiple judgements against oneself and failing to pay them.
Anyone else have additional suggestions? If so, feel absolutely free to add them.
I think you’re on to something there, API. Of course, we will have to ID forms of the word to be used as a noun, adjective, and verb.
I was just offering and initial start, anyone who wants to can feel free to offer what they have!
The ability to argue the rules and merits of allowing hearsay in a manner that results in the presiding judge to allow the hearsay when it would ordinarily not be allowed.
“Bernathian”
Without wings
Bernatious. The state or quality of being bernathian. See bernathian.
You are late to the party.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bernath
I beg to differ with you, Hack Stone. Your use in that definition of “Bernath” is a verb and I proposed a new definition of “Bernathian” as an adjective.
There is a wing nut conspiracy guy on you tube that has put up two videos after the News Came out on Bernath….
The guy is a loon, and is stringing togerther that Bernath may have been running drugs from Canada or an Indian Reservation and ran low on fuel when he crashed in Oregon and may have been involved with the CIA. He does not get everything right about the dead scumbag, in fact some of it is crazy bullshit, but he still tells about 75% truth in exposing Bernath,
That dude’s tin foil hat is wrapped way too tight.
Yes, I ALMOST feel sorry that someone that nutty is targeting Bernath. The only concern I really have is that the vile truth about him will be hidden in the loony conspiracies this guy is spinning.
But than again I guess its Karma.
I listened to some of his wacky banter; I am surprised George Noory hasn’t had him on the Coast to Coast radio show yet.
THAT GUY likely licked every window of each and every short bus he ever rode on.
it is clear this dude is a window pane licking, urinal cake eating, head banging ding dong.
Straight past retard and right to mineral.
Past full potato, past full turnip straight to extra-mildewed shower curtain.
Does he eat Tide pods as well? I still can’t believe that’s a thing. Those fucking millenials…
That is NOT a CT Flightline plane. Bernath was not rated for the kind of plane in that video.
The video guy really is grasping at wet straws. Why isn’t he on a street corner with one of those sandwich board setups? He could make some cash that way.
What a great ad-lib spoof. I wonder if that author could do one featuring Dan’s dog and cat, even if Dan didn’t have a dog, or cat.
Just suppose… picture in your mind, a lawyer so obsessed with being Bernathian that he purchased a used dog, or cat, from James Comey’s production company.
Has anyone gotten wind of an organizational meeting of the DRG? Shouldn’t they be meeting to appoint another staff lawer, or maybe, re-assign a seat at their “club” meetings, or to see who picks up the slack in the purchase of the MD 20/20 for the club. Perhaps they should approach Phony Phrank Phischer, the non Airborne, non Air Assault, non Sniper, non Ranger, non Berlin Wall shooter. His future is being debated, as I write this, at his AmLeg post in Martinsburg W VA. He was asked by the Post Commander and adjutant to show up tonight with DD-214 in hand, and he opted to resign his 2nd Vice seat, on Tuesday. Last night, in the night, he blocked me at his facebook page. He has DRG membership written all over himself.
Naw, waaaaaay too premature for such a designation. He simply has not yet earned a seat in that august group. We can hope that he never does.
Authentic DD214 or forged/altered DD214?
Hey, CatFischer Frank…are you reading this Post? Be a man and apoligize to all you deceived, to include your Facebook and American Legion buddies as well as to the Journal and TV Station (the Journal needs to claim responsibilty on this on as well).
Oh, and don’t forget to extend that apology to REAL RANGERS and your community.
Thank you,again, Frankie for the update.
P.S. Is this Dude stll a member of the VFW…or was he ever a member (another lie?)
The DRG needs to establish a Designated Survivor List so that when their leader is incarcerated or takes the eternal dirt nap, they can continue their mission of protecting the reputation of valor thieves. Hack would like to know where sock puppets fall in the line of succession, because “people” like Will Chamberlain have a lot to contribute.
Bernath was more fucked up than a football bat hitting a golf puck into a soccer basket while wearing steel toed flip flops and eating spaghetti with a Barber’s razor.
And as loved as a heavily mildewed shower curtain.
Ah, jeez, a heavily mildewed shower curtain… imagine Dan and SlrrrPyY getting wrapped up and passionate! I can already see a vision of SlrrpPy wearing that curtain, like a BatMan Cape, carrying a croquet mallet and telling Dan that that the mallet is a LustyThruster and the two of them can fly, together, like no ordinary men have ever done!
Wet Back Dan and Mildew Men doing the curtain song, featuring Captain BeefHeart on Sax and terminal throat voice, without spurs!
He died doing what he loved best and was good at: crashing airplanes.
Nice rundown of both crashes: http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2018_01_25_archive.html
He won’t be missed
BHWHAHAHAHA !!!!!!
20 Bucks says suicide
Hack will take that bet, because we all know that it will be ruled self-murder, over.
I am going to create a life size Bernath Memorial statue from sustainable resources.
I will collect said materials once the snow melts and I can clean up the kennel!
http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=135429
I haven’t seen this posted yet. Might be helpful for inquiring minds/investigation.
(btw: note the “tribute” fruit salad on the tail)
http://www.vansairforce.com/community/search.php
On the right hand side enter danielabernath in the user name block.
The search results will show every post by Dan. It’s scary how many times he tried to work on his plane and screwed something up.
I glanced through some of the trash he posted. There was always the hint of his plane being sabotaged and pending lawsuits,, he even dropped the name Jonn in a few posts.
One post that stuck out was that one of the cables that connected to the rudder had come undone and retracted back into the fuselage. He was asking all sorts of advice to get it out to reattach it.
He managed to pull it out on his own using some shade tree mechanic shit (magnet and hanger).
The people on the page all but begged him to get a real mechanic to give the plane a professional inspection. Of course he ignored them.
They told him that their was a chance of that cable being guided between other control cables and it was a disaster waiting to happen.
Id not be surprised if his jury-rigging ended up snapping the control cables and sent him on the way to mother earth and straight to hell.
‘As To’ the corporation that allegedly owned the plane, I don’t see it registered with the Florida or Oregon Sec. of State’s office. I don’t see it anywhere on the net.
I may not be a legitimate business entity? Hummmm.
How/who was it sold to and how could it get insurance?
Things to ponder.
World Adventure Series is registered in Wyoming of all places.
https://wyobiz.wy.gov/Business/FilingDetails.aspx?eFNum=124145091083097222150052251115194235177048008164#collapse1
Click on the Additional Details, History, Public Notes, and Parties tabs at the bottom. Especially the Parties. It lists Daniel-san’s daughter Nicole as the President of the corporation, his wife Martha as the Vice President, and Dan as the Secretary
Ok…so what does this corporation actually DO? Is it like Vandelay Enterprises? And the Secretary of State of Wyoming was named Max Maxfield? That’s some crazy shit right there!
I’m sure it’s some sort of tax dodge that Dan set up.
In addition to being a personal property tax dodge, it also likely a mechanism to shield his assets from his creditors by not having them in his name.
Gee whiz, wotta surprise.
In law, there is thing thing called ‘piercing the corporate veil.’ It is not all that unusual in closely held corporations. The officers THINK they are protected from certain liability by virtue of their establishing a corp or LLC but, for some, a nasty surprise awaits: the corporate veil is pierced and assets are reached. There is no shield.
I guess I have a thing for the word thing.
Also, if the creditor can prove transfer of assets to the entity or other third party renders the debtor insolvent, the court can set aside the transfer as a fraudulent conveyance against the rights of the creditors. Most states have this fraudulent conveyance statute.
Yeah, Bernie Madoff found that out the hard way, you know.
Everything got sold, including his underwear. (Eeewww!)
The corporation sells spandex products and mailbox doors.
Does it offer flight training? Wait! I know what you’ll reply Hack. “No, but it offers crash training.”
DABy .. now resting in pieces.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKtjBqJ4NxA&w=560&h=315%5D
Daniel Bernath The pilot had the same problem as Daniel Bernath the radio host; he just couldn’t get enough air time.
Rest In Pieces Dano
I looked around and saw that PuRpLeSuItQuEeF *SLUUUUURRRRRRRP!*41 is continuing the Bernathian tradition of libeling and slandering others along with accusing innocent men of being me, what a walking blob of weasel snot!
That douche is a waste of protein and air. Too bad Birdbrain didn’t take him on that last flight. Then we would have had a DRG two-fer.
In the matter of the judge’s decision re Bernath v Seavey… wasn’t the shitbird sonofabitch sitting in prison, in Portsmouth?
Haha, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Dan! It was your last. No one will miss you. Glad you were able to “do the deal” your own way, and I pray that your estate will, pay and pay and pay. No amount of money redeemed Dead Ted Kennedy but, at least, he was an admitted and current member of the Massachusetts Board of Overseers, even after he died.
Interesting read about psychology.
http://www.wtsglobal.com/the-vexatious-litigant/
I predict a lot of case studies in the future, both legal and medical.
That article sure sounds close to describing Bernath. Nice catch!
Good riddance