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Pilot sets world record (Boeing 777)
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| 10 November 2005
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Posted on 11/10/2005 9:34:12 AM PST by lowbuck
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Man-O-man make sure you brings lots of peanuts. I wonder how many 'in-flight' movies they showed?
Seriously, quite a feat, congrats to Boeing!
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posted on
11/10/2005 9:34:13 AM PST
by
lowbuck
To: lowbuck
Sweetness. Planes are cool.
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posted on
11/10/2005 9:37:37 AM PST
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coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: lowbuck
reminiscent of the shipping lines competition around the turn of the last century in Atlantic crossings--culminating in the Titanic--
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posted on
11/10/2005 9:38:23 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(urbanites don' t understand the cultural deprivation of not being raised on a farm:NRABenefactor)
To: lowbuck
To: Dashing Dasher
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posted on
11/10/2005 9:44:38 AM PST
by
StrangerInParadise
(This tagline has been reported stolen. If you see it, call BR-549..........)
To: coconutt2000
Sweetness. Planes are cool. Not when you're traveling in steerage. 10 hours is about my upper limit. Whether it's the Big Pig (A380), or 22 hours -- I'm not going.
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posted on
11/10/2005 9:44:41 AM PST
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sionnsar
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To: StrangerInParadise
LOL!!!
Captain Ramius: Re-verify our range to target... one Ping only.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: Captain, I - I - I just...
Captain Ramius: Give me a Ping, Vasili. One Ping only, please.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: Aye, Captain.
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posted on
11/10/2005 9:46:21 AM PST
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Dashing Dasher
(I'm going to become rich as soon as I invent a device that allows you to smack people over the web!)
To: rellimpank
Actually, after being held for years by the Cunard Lines's S.S.
Mauretania, then by a number of Italian and other British liners, the Blue Riband was retired for the USA by the S.S.
United States in 1953. She averaged something like 44 knots both ways on her maiden voyage. She had an ungodly superabundance of all-American horsepower, and her hull was classified Top Secret (still classified Secret while she lay at her pier in retirement in 1969).
And I was one of her smaller passengers on the return voyage. I have a vivid memory of a broad, foaming white wake that stretched out like a ruler to the horizon, and a raging, 40-knot gale that swept her decks as she stormed across the Atlantic.
To: SirChas
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posted on
11/10/2005 10:13:24 AM PST
by
mad puppy
( The Southern border needs to be a MAJOR issue in 2006 and 2008)
To: lentulusgracchus
To: lowbuck
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posted on
11/10/2005 10:25:02 AM PST
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ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
To: lowbuck; Paleo Conservative
This is my favorite plane to fly in, provided you aren't in the back. Comfortable climate control, leg room in coach (if you're flying Continental), stands up well under turbulence, and QUIET.
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posted on
11/10/2005 10:26:55 AM PST
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Clemenza
(In League with the Freemasons, The Bilderbergers, and the Learned Elders of Zion)
To: coconutt2000
Sweetness. Planes are cool. Oh yeaaaah. One of my favorite things in the world. Love 'em.
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posted on
11/10/2005 10:27:47 AM PST
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GretchenM
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To: safisoft
Ping to come rain your Airbus drivel on this parade, too.
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posted on
11/10/2005 10:31:37 AM PST
by
sam_paine
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To: lowbuck
Man-O-man make sure you brings lots of peanuts. I wonder how many 'in-flight' movies they showed?Pardon me but the correct appellation would be
"Woman oh Woman" since the Captain was a WOMAN!!!
"Oh Suzanna, Oh won't you fly for me......"
Way to go Boeing!
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posted on
11/10/2005 10:56:47 AM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
(Hey hey ho ho Andy Heyward's got to go!)
To: Paleo Conservative
Here's a funny one.
I told my cronies yesterday at our Pub this was going to happen today. They called me full of it. Told them to see their newspaper on Friday.
I can't wait to stick this info in their ear.
Go Boeing.
To: lowbuck
A good achievement, but pointless.
No airline would route HKG-LHR going east, currently they cross N. Russia.
They should have tried something that long that there is a actual need for route wise, like Auckland to London, or Seoul to Buenos Aires.
To: lowbuck
"The plane has four pilots and was carrying 35 passengers and crew, including Boeing representatives, journalists and customers."
Yet, American captain Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann is the only one to get any press.
Come on...we all know women can fly! How about giving kudos to the entire crew!!
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posted on
11/10/2005 12:25:48 PM PST
by
He'sComingBack!
(Just another National Championship from the "weak" PAC-10)
To: Central Scrutiniser
A good achievement, but pointless. I beg to differ. The route is irrelevant.
The big deal is that it is a twin engine aircraft and it flew for so long and so far. There are different flight rules for twin and four-engine aircraft. Twins must stay within a certain distance, en route, of an emergency landing site should an engine fail. This is a push to qualify twin engine aircraft to be certified to fly the more expensive four engine routes. Four engine ac's being more costly to acquire, maintain and fuel.
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posted on
11/10/2005 12:28:23 PM PST
by
elbucko
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