Test crew flies Boeing 747-8 to Pittsburgh for sandwich

AOLNews ^ | June 25, 2011 | Kate Auletta

[Daffynition]

The Seattle-based flight crew testing out Boeing's 747-8 decided to take the new jet for a spin...to Pittsburgh for some sandwiches.

It all went down on Wednesday, when flight test director Paul Shank handed out Pittsburgh's famous Primanti Brothers menus while in Seattle.

Roughly 8 hours and 2,500 miles later, the flight crew landed in Pittsburgh to nosh on some sandwiches, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports.

Staffers from the Pittsburgh-based Atlantic Aviation picked up the sandwiches, and the crew was back en route to Seattle an hour later.

Shank told the paper: "Everybody loved it. They were all like, 'Who would have thought to put fries and cole slaw on a sandwich?' It was comfort food for me, something that reminded me of home."

[martin_fierro]

I know.

Was just being,

[DuncanWaring]

Boeing should just go ahead and extend the upper deck hump all the way to the tail fin.

I suspect the laws of physics/aerodynamics say "The hump stops at the wing-root".

[big truck]

Coors gives you splinters in your arse???

[Northern Yankee]

Yes ma’am!

[cpdiii]

Doping! Oh man that brings back memories of when my friends and I restored an old Taylorcraft. Coat after coat after coat, a layer of silver coat, then sand off to smooth and repeat.

The great thing about a rag wing (sticks and rags) is you can put some "100 knot duct tape" on it and keep flying. You can always repair later.

[eartrumpet]

‘Who would have thought to put fries and cole slaw on a sandwich?’ It was comfort food for me, something that reminded me of home.”

You make it sound like your momma thought of fries and cole slaw on a sandwich.

[Daffynition]

LOL...may you always have working landing gear! ;D

[Daffynition]

;D Sounds like something you’d put together if you were cleaning out the fridge! ;P

[Northern Yankee]

And may you always be flying in the right direction!

[wita]

What? No winglets?

[Daffynition]

The way I understand it...winglets to planes are like wingtips to shoes. Both serve the same porpoise. ;D

[wita]

Not so. Major improvement in fuel efficiency and range with the addition of winglets. I will gather the facts.

http://airlineworld.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/aircraft-winglets/

final answer that I did not know:

The 747-8, the 787 and the A350 will have special, new kind of wings, which do not have a separate winglet, but have raked, and blended wingtips integrated - without a sharp angle between the wing and the winglet.

[Daffynition]

Somehow, I don't believe you.