Save Road Atlanta!
06-09-2006, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Hacker-Pschorr
Kurt,
Heartland Park Topeka is a great example of people thinking ahead. Built next to an air force base - lets see someone try to complain the government needs to put mufflers on F-15's.
Heartland Park Topeka is a great example of people thinking ahead. Built next to an air force base - lets see someone try to complain the government needs to put mufflers on F-15's.
It was built right off the end of the runway of Luke AFB, only the largest F-16 training base in the county. Yet got closed down a year and after after the opened due to Noise. That was after the county approved them as a "great used of land near the AFB" 3 years earlier. Don't even get me started on that one.
06-09-2006, 04:34 PM
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Anything can change. I spent 24 years in the Tenn Army National Guard. Our airport in Smyrna, Tn was an Air Force Base as far back as I can remember. Army helicopters moved there in the late 60's. But in the 90's people that had moved there complained about us flying over their houses. We had to change our flight pattern to suit them.
About Road Atlanta. There is (or was) and ADF just off the Bridge Turn. It was kind of primitive but you could shoot an ADF instrument approach to the back straight, and I have heard the Wittingtons did it when they owned the place. Why do you supose they were landing at Road Atlanta in the middle of the night ? But they just owned the place, they had nothing to do with building it.
Bill Seifert
1983 944 Race Car
About Road Atlanta. There is (or was) and ADF just off the Bridge Turn. It was kind of primitive but you could shoot an ADF instrument approach to the back straight, and I have heard the Wittingtons did it when they owned the place. Why do you supose they were landing at Road Atlanta in the middle of the night ? But they just owned the place, they had nothing to do with building it.
Bill Seifert
1983 944 Race Car
06-09-2006, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by jmorris3
Nice.
For those who don't know, Don Panoz made his fortune in the pharmaceutical industry. The best friend of a good friend of mine is head of engineering at Panoz road cars (where I got a really cool behind the scenes tour). They joke around about how Road Atlanta was purchased and funded with drug money once again.
No defamation is/was intended.
06-09-2006, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Juan Lopez
Dr. Panoz I believe invented the transdermal patch.
06-09-2006, 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Juan Lopez
Dr. Panoz I believe invented the transdermal patch.
George and it came out quite funny (and accurate).
George and it came out quite funny (and accurate).
06-10-2006, 08:42 PM
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Don Panoz was a pharmacist in Ohio when he came up with the idea of transdermal nicotine patch delivery system. He patented the idea, moved to Ireland and started up Mylan Pharmaceuticals, which he later sold for $150-200 million.
06-11-2006, 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by RXDOC
Don Panoz was a pharmacist in Ohio when he came up with the idea of transdermal nicotine patch delivery system. He patented the idea, moved to Ireland and started up Mylan Pharmaceuticals, which he later sold for $150-200 million.
"I said to hell with it, I'll just hire a pharmacist," he says.
Panoz never finished college, although he continued to study pharmacy on his own. Not having a degree didn't seem to hamper him. In 1960, he talked several members of the Pittsburgh Pirates into investing their World Series bonus checks in a pharmaceutical company he wanted to launch in West Virginia. His partner was an old Army buddy, Milan Puskar, who's still chairman of the firm they began, Mylan Laboratories."
Now, for the rest of the story.