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El Al flight makes emergency landing in Montana
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| 11/15/15
Posted on 11/15/2015 1:24:48 PM PST by markomalley
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To: dfwgator
Funniest movie I’ve ever watched.
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posted on
11/15/2015 4:02:50 PM PST
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them)
To: Gamecock
LAX to TLV, non-stop? Wow, that’s quite a hop.
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posted on
11/15/2015 4:04:18 PM PST
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them)
To: Duckdog
Isn’t there any way to shut that off? It sure makes a lot of people seem less smart than they are.
To: Gamecock; Slings and Arrows
Hop-along Ginsberg Ping
.
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posted on
11/15/2015 5:02:47 PM PST
by
LucyT
To: virgil
Nah. according to flight aware is is 6601 miles.
DFW-SYD. 7454 miles. That’s a hop!
Singapore Airlines is starting a nonstop from NYC (EWR?) to SIN. That will be the worlds longest flight.
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posted on
11/15/2015 6:15:50 PM PST
by
Gamecock
(Preach the gospel daily, use words if necessary is like saying Feed the hungry use food if necessary)
To: PlateOfShrimp
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posted on
11/15/2015 6:16:35 PM PST
by
Califreak
(Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
To: All
Good news!
The El Al flight is back in the air and enroute to LAX. Due to arrive at 19:57.
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posted on
11/15/2015 6:17:32 PM PST
by
Gamecock
(Preach the gospel daily, use words if necessary is like saying Feed the hungry use food if necessary)
To: Gamecock
It’s pretty amazing looking at the world from the perspective of the top of the world. You can clearly see it makes more sense to go from NYC to Japan by way of Canada and Siberia as opposed to going across the U.S. Mainland and the Pacific.
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posted on
11/15/2015 6:21:41 PM PST
by
SamAdams76
(It's time we sent a junkyard dog to Washington to run the low life out)
To: SamAdams76
It really is.
We loose perspective when we look at a flat map. That big curved line we see on standard map is just too difficult for our minds to process. Often we tend to think east-west when the shortest route on a sphere just may be over the top, which is not well represented on a standard map.
And since you brought it up:
Last year I flew HKG-ORD:
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posted on
11/15/2015 6:47:11 PM PST
by
Gamecock
(Preach the gospel daily, use words if necessary is like saying Feed the hungry use food if necessary)
To: Gamecock
Pretty amazing perspective. Consider that thousands of people fly that route without even realizing that part of their trip is over the Arctic Circle, which just a century ago was mostly unexplored.
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posted on
11/15/2015 7:23:47 PM PST
by
SamAdams76
(It's time we sent a junkyard dog to Washington to run the low life out)
To: Gamecock
Is there a website where you can plot points like you did?
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posted on
11/15/2015 7:32:39 PM PST
by
Tea Party Terrorist
(Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
To: markomalley
The runway in Billings (KBIL) is only 5501 X 75, seems very short and narrow for a 777.
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posted on
11/15/2015 7:34:08 PM PST
by
TruthWillWin
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
"20 crew members? That’s a lot of crew."For Israel to LA they probably had two crews.
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posted on
11/15/2015 7:37:33 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: TruthWillWin
Ops, my error. On a second look there are three runways at Biliings Logan. The longest, 28R 10L is 10518 X 150, no issues landing a 777 on that one.
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posted on
11/15/2015 7:38:52 PM PST
by
TruthWillWin
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: LucyT; Gamecock
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posted on
11/16/2015 12:27:19 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
To: Tea Party Terrorist
Yes, www.gcmap.com. Best to know the 3-letter airport codes.
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posted on
11/16/2015 7:33:38 AM PST
by
bjorn14
(Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
To: Blood of Tyrants
20 crew members? That’s a lot of crew. It's two whole crews. On those really long flights, they time out in the air.
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posted on
11/16/2015 7:38:07 AM PST
by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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