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When You Go to Deplane And Your Plane Starts Lifting Up, Way Up
Independent Sentinel ^ | By M Dowling - October 25, 20231

Posted on 10/25/2023 12:31:35 PM PDT by Red Badger

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21 posted on 10/25/2023 1:04:23 PM PDT by Rio
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To: T.B. Yoits
Similar incident from 2021 involving USC team.



22 posted on 10/25/2023 1:04:33 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Red Badger
It does resemble a DC-3...

I noticed that as well. From the front, I thought it was. But then I saw the jet engines. Still, same type of nose.

23 posted on 10/25/2023 1:13:48 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.)
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To: Red Badger

Someone put Lizzo on the No Fly List please.


24 posted on 10/25/2023 1:18:12 PM PDT by InsidiousMongo
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To: delta7
Nothing new, when they stretched the 737 fuselage it required a ( as we call it) a donkey dick to be installed by the gate crew on arrival. A long steel support attached at the tail skid…

KC-135 had one too.

25 posted on 10/25/2023 1:23:49 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Red Badger

The problem is that someone didn’t support the rear of the plane when they possibly should have. I used to work for FedEx and one of their DC-10s “wheelied” at LAX because the ground crew forgot to place the rear support under the tail of the aircraft (this happened back around 1990 IIRC). Cargo planes are severely out of balance during loading and unloading. I would imagine passenger planes are too, to a lesser degree.


26 posted on 10/25/2023 1:24:48 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Red Badger

Were those purple haired women who want wider aisles involved ?


27 posted on 10/25/2023 1:32:04 PM PDT by daku
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To: delta7

That’s what we called the spout for fuel cans back in my army days lol.


28 posted on 10/25/2023 2:07:35 PM PDT by 56th FA Brigade
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To: Red Badger

Lizzo had no comment


29 posted on 10/25/2023 2:24:29 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Red Badger

To deplane is not a word.


30 posted on 10/25/2023 2:39:53 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: HIDEK6
deplane is not a word.


31 posted on 10/25/2023 3:00:19 PM PDT by Pilsner
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To: HartleyMBaldwin; All
This is a problem with weight shift !!!

Hauling Tanks and one broke loose and slid aft.

32 posted on 10/25/2023 3:27:56 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: Pajamajan

Michael Moore


33 posted on 10/25/2023 3:39:21 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Pilsner

You win the thread.


34 posted on 10/25/2023 3:39:54 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: HIDEK6

Sure it is!
Tattoo used it every week on Fantasy Island.........
De Plane!....de Plane!...de Plane!!!!!!!!


35 posted on 10/25/2023 4:09:45 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Stacey Abrams on that flight?


36 posted on 10/25/2023 4:43:45 PM PDT by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: Red Badger

Lots of airplanes have a tailstand that’s deployed during loading and stowed once the engines have been started.

The weight & balance folk like for the CG of a commercial airplane to be near its aft limit. That’s because the tailplane ordinarily flies down (it makes lift in the wrong direction) to keep the a/c level. But lift is directly proportional to drag, so if you can reduce how much upside-down lift the tailplane needs to make, it improves both efficiency and airspeed.

It also reduces the margin of stability, but you can’t have your Kate and Edith, too.


37 posted on 10/25/2023 6:33:26 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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> You win the thread.

What's the reference? I don't get it...

38 posted on 10/25/2023 10:57:45 PM PDT by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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To: dayglored
What's the reference? I don't get it...

It is the opening sequence to the television show Fantasy Island. See link at image.


39 posted on 10/26/2023 5:49:47 AM PDT by Pilsner
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To: Pilsner

Ah, so. Thanks!


40 posted on 10/26/2023 7:00:35 AM PDT by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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