posted 03-01-2005 08:35 AM                    

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Heat in peppers is measured in Scoville
Heat Units, named for Wilbur Scoville
who worked for the Parke Davis
Pharmaceutical Company. In 1912 he
was working on a muscle cream that used
capsaicin, the substance in peppers that
give them their heat. Scoville conducted
a series of tests with whole ground chilies
mixed in a solution of water & sugar. He
had a panel of 5 testers sip the solution
in increased dilutions until it reached the
point that it no longer burned the mouth.
Lot's of Prylosec & Rolaids in the room
(at least there would have been for me). A
number was then assigned to each pepper
based on how much it needed to be diluted
before you could not feel the heat.
One part of chili-heat per one million
drops of water was then rated at 1.5
Scoville Heat Units or SHU for short.
When asked, Scoville called his test
"The Scoville Organaleptic Test."
Measured in multiples of 100 units,
the pungency of chili peppers finds
itself at zero Scoville Units in your
basic green & colored bell peppers ,
while the hottest of hot peppers the
Red Savina variety Habanero chili
ranks in at a whopping 350,000 SHU.

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posted 03-01-2005 01:45 PM                       

Every time discussion of DC-10 crashes come up, I sadly remember John Lakotas, a Kodak motion-picture engineer and close friend, on his way back to Hollywood from an engineering meeting in Rochester on that fateful day at ORD on May 25, 1979. I last saw him about four hours before he died, as he left to catch his flight to Chicago.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19790525-2

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Date: 25 MAY 1979
Time: 15:04 CDT
Type: McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10
Operator: American Airlines
Registration: N110AA
Msn / C/n: 46510/22
Year built: 1972
Total airframe hrs: 19871 hours
Engines: 3 General Electric CF6-6K
Crew: 13 fatalities / 13 on board
Passengers: 258 fatalities / 258 on board
Total: 271 fatalities / 271 on board
Ground casualties: 2 fatalities

Flight 191 left the gate at Chicago-O'Hare at 14:59 and taxied to runway 32R. At 15:02 the flight was cleared for takeoff. The takeoff roll was normal until just before rotation at which time sections of the No. 1 engine pylon structure came off the aircraft. During rotation the entire no. 1 engine and pylon separated from the aircraft, went over the top of the wing, and fell to the runway. Flight 191 lifted off about 6,000 feet down the runway, climbed out in a wings level attitude, and reached an altitude of about 300 feet agl with its wings still level. Shortly thereafter, the aircraft began to turn and roll to the left, the nose pitched down, and the aircraft began to descend. As it descended, it continued to roll left until the wings were past the vertical position. The DC-10 crashed in an open field and trailer park about 4,680 feet northwest of the departure end of runway 32R. The aircraft was demolished during the impact, explosion, and ground fire. Two persons on the ground were killed.

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posted 03-01-2005 11:12 PM                    

quote: John Pytlak

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Every time discussion of DC-10 crashes come up, I sadly remember John Lakotas, a Kodak motion-picture engineer and close friend, on his way back to Hollywood from an engineering meeting in Rochester on that fateful day at ORD on May 25, 1979.

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quote: Leo Enticknap

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According to my cousin the Chicago crash was caused by the engine having been removed from its housing for maintenance using an unauthorised procedure

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posted 03-02-2005 09:11 AM                       

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REMEMBERING A LIFE, NOT MOURNING A DEATH – A resident of First Neighborhood in the city of Westlake Village, Lisa Wildermuth, plants a tree in memory of her father, John C. Lakotas, who was killed in a 1979 plane crash. The Jacaranda tree planted recently is part of a Memorial Tree Plan that allows residents to plant commemorative trees in greenbelts that lace their way around and through First Neighborhood. With Wildermuth are her husband, Michael, who’s standing on the left holding baby John (who was named for his grandfather), daughters Nicole, 5, and Rebecca, 8, along with Iraj Broomand, mayor of the city of Westlake Village.

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