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Warbird posted:Are those restored bombers worth crawling around in? I’m thinking of taking kiddo1 up to see that B-29 that’s here for another day but I’m not sure it’s worth $10 a head. 10 bucks to crawl through a flying B-29, of which there are two in the world? With your username? Yes.
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I paid  for the family to crawl through a B17. Definitely worth it.
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I flew on FIFI at Reading in 2013. First thing I did after recovering from heart surgery. https://i.imgur.com/38Kh8k4.mp4    Best $500 I ever spent PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 01:48 on May 2, 2024 |
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Warbird posted:Are those restored bombers worth crawling around in? I’m thinking of taking kiddo1 up to see that B-29 that’s here for another day but I’m not sure it’s worth $10 a head. without knowing anything about your financial situation, i'd say, if $10 a head is something you'd be willing and able to pay for a dinner out for your partner and munchkins, i'd say go for it and eat cheap that night
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https://www.seattletimes.com/business/whistleblower-josh-dean-of-boeing-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-has-died/ A second sudden death has just hit a Boeing whistleblower.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:you can't be serious. what are the odds That law firm has got to be making GBS threads bricks. Do they have any plaintiffs left?
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Poor fellow must have learned something that could have lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton or however that goes. Edit: gently caress, the tour deals were yesterday and the day before only. Probs going to try and get up there and look at it in person and hopefully see it take off but god drat it. Warbird fucked around with this message at 05:41 on May 2, 2024 |
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Warbird posted:Are those restored bombers worth crawling around in? I’m thinking of taking kiddo1 up to see that B-29 that’s here for another day but I’m not sure it’s worth $10 a head. They're fun, I suppose. Took this on a ride on Fifi in 2022.
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he apparently died of pneumonia, which kinda makes it harder to speculate about him getting high speed low drag tier one operatored
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Cactus Ghost posted:he apparently died of pneumonia, which kinda makes it harder to speculate about him getting high speed low drag tier one operatored I'd run the fluid in his lungs through an LC-MS at the autopsy just to be sure.
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Cactus Ghost posted:he apparently died of pneumonia, which kinda makes it harder to speculate about him getting high speed low drag tier one operatored They slip him immunosuppressive drugs and let South Carolina quality health care do the rest.
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Cactus Ghost posted:he apparently died of pneumonia, which kinda makes it harder to speculate about him getting high speed low drag tier one operatored the pneumonia was caused by a MRSA infection though
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ehhh, lots of people have mrsa present on their skin or in their mouth and nose. it's benign until it gets somewhere it isn't supposed to be and you take a bunch of the M it's R to. not saying it isnt suspicious, just that it's less so than "suicide by gun right before recording a deposition"
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Holy poo poo my shoulders hurt just watching that.
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i guess it beats breaking your back and both legs but holy moly
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Goddamn that’s rad as hell
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Boeing’s engineers were so formidable back then you’d throw yourself out of a window. These days their executives have to hire someone to push you out.
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Cactus Ghost posted:i guess it beats breaking your back and both legs but holy moly Those reels have a metal tape in them and are apparently kinda sharp so you may get to cut yourself to ribbons if you're the next one out. Theres a Boeing video demonstrating that escape system that had a real deal hollywood stuntman dislocate his shoulder using that system.
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FuturePastNow posted:Agent 747 
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FuturePastNow posted:Agent 787
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Dick Rutan dead at eighty-five
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Man, that flight happened before I was born, but I kept hearing about it long after that on TV.
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Flight testing of new-build KC-135s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZqWaHEopr4
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Voyager flew around the world, and returned to its departure airport. Which means it technically didn’t qualify as a cross country flight under FAR 61.1
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Jonny Nox posted:Really it was the shittiest pattern work ever The world's longest long final
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Flight testing of new-build KC-135s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZqWaHEopr4 That is the very first KC-135. 55-3118. She’s on a plinth outside McConnell AFB in Kansas now.
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LOL at the Boeing Starliner crew transporter being unironically named the “Astro Van”, also the launch in < 2 hours just got scrubbed.
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Stock dropped 10 bucks, working hard thank you!
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FuturePastNow posted:Agent 747 Boeing 187. Warbird posted:Stock dropped 10 bucks, working hard thank you! Glad as poo poo that I sold at 240.
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Cactus Ghost posted:ngl having the nerve to call it Astro Van is pretty amazing My third-happiest moment in the Shuttle program was when Mission Control woke the crew with Deep Purple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHOrpFeXUao (#1: first flight with Crippen & Young. #2: In 1997, when John Grunsfeld called in to Car Talk from orbit. I have this on cassette tape somewhere) PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 04:47 on May 7, 2024 |
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