Posted on 10/15/2016 12:59:13 PM PDT by justlurking
They don’t say what aircraft that manual is for. Every aircraft has a different manual. I wonder why that is?
Then there is this hole in her story:
Braniff, which ceased operations in 1982, operated the flight, according to Leeds’ recollection. Leeds recalled flying on a Boeing 707 during the flight, however, the four-engine airliner had ceased flying with the airline in 1973, according to Ben Cass, the foundation’s president, and other aviation historians.
I am very well acquainted with the armrests in the posted “Braniff Airlines” first class seat. Yes, the armest can be removed for the cleaning or removal of this seat from the aircraft...but, there are very few passengers, male or fmale that could pull the armrest upward out of it’s holding mechanism on the seat itself. The armrest is designed to be removed only for seat maintenance or cleaning. As usual anything CNN posts, writes or says has no truth to it at all. Please take what I pen as fact. I have been in airline aircraft maintenance for some 57 years, and I can assure you, that Donald J. Trump would not know how to remove that armrest, not would any other regular passenger, man or woman!!! This armrest dos not fold up...it must be manually pulled out by someone that knows exactly how to do it!!! End of story!!! Clinton News Network lies again!!!
Well said. My alarm bell went off when they did not identify which manual they were quoting from. Typical leftist conflation here. Throw it all against the wall and see what sticks.
Pimping for Hillary or really think this is noteworthy?
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Curious, Where did he stow the Armrest after he Removed it???
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Between her legs?
Yes, this is what Free Republic used to be: posting MSM articles excerpts for analysis and critique -- back before click-bait blogs were epidemic. Rather-gate was broken wide open by Freepers, but it was only the most well-known example.
Posting a vanity was considered to be bad form, unless it was a well-researched editorial or article worth of publication. There's even a category for that.
One thing I didn't expect: people that thought I was posting for "correct the record" or criticizing my choice of article. But, if they weren't around when this was a typical posting at FR, I guess they wouldn't know better.
I guess FR will never be like that again. However, I was glad to relive it, at least for a short time.
I think part of the problem here is that the caption on the pic of the armrests appears to be your words, and not from the article. The casual reader, or even one who has skimmed the article (and often many FReepers barely have time for that) might not catch that it is a quote.
Yes, I had to put the captions and pictures separately. I also wanted to excerpt more of the article, but ran into the limit.
I know that it's a tradition at FreeRepublic to not read the article, but if you have time to comment on the article, you have time to read the article before commenting.
If you had time to post the thread, you had time to add italics when you inserted the caption. Or add briefly to your initial comments, to make it clear where you are coming from.
3 weeks to go - we don’t have time for games to “gotcha” some FReepers, who are not the enemy.
Just nail CNN directly! :-)
You're wrong, and you can stuff your apology.
Take a look at my join date, noob. And, you've been around long enough to know better.
They are not raisable, but they are removable. Huge difference. You can’t just flip it up. You have to take it entirely out.
I agree with everything except your statement that the 707 was unlike the 727 in that the latter was a narrow-body aircraft. The 707 had a single-aisle configuration with three seats on either sided of the aisle. So it would not be considered a wide-body like then747 or the L-1011. Interestingly, as I recall, the 727 could be entered or exited from drop-down stairs in the tail.
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