I love this story of American enterprise and innovation.

Note the tiny humans wa-a-y back there. ... or i guess we're looking forward?

They primed the nose .... it doesn't look quite so much like a corndog now.
1 posted on
09/16/2006 8:38:29 PM PDT by
skeptoid
To: Paleo Conservative
2 posted on
09/16/2006 8:42:31 PM PDT by
Ready4Freddy
(Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)
To: skeptoid
Man, that is one sick looking puppy.
To: skeptoid
A good paint job and maybe the could sell to Oscar Meyer.
4 posted on
09/16/2006 8:43:17 PM PDT by
ThomasThomas
(I did use spell check!)
To: skeptoid
Geeesh, that thing is HUGE! How many babies is she expecting?
5 posted on
09/16/2006 8:44:46 PM PDT by
NCC-1701
(RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ELIMINATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
To: skeptoid
Does anyone know who the father is? I sure hope it wasn't an Airbus.
To: skeptoid
Looks like it could carry a pretty big MOAB. :O)
7 posted on
09/16/2006 8:46:49 PM PDT by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Democrats. French, but more cowardly.)
To: skeptoid
Here's the loader at the plant in Italy:

This cargo loader, designed and built by TLD at its facility in Sherbrooke, Quebec, will be used to load the Alenia fuselage sections and horizontal stabilizer on to the Large Cargo Freighter for the trip to Charleston, S.C. The loader is 118 feet long and has a maximum speed of 10 m.p.h. Its empty weight is 220,000 pounds. The loader, which has 32 tires, can lift up to 150,000 pounds, or 68 tons..
8 posted on
09/16/2006 8:48:23 PM PDT by
endthematrix
(None dare call it ISLAMOFACISM!)
To: skeptoid
It looks like the A380, but I know it's a better plane.
11 posted on
09/16/2006 8:54:35 PM PDT by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: skeptoid
16 posted on
09/16/2006 9:01:37 PM PDT by
endthematrix
(None dare call it ISLAMOFACISM!)
To: skeptoid
All the way from Asia and a lousy bag of pretzels?!
20 posted on
09/16/2006 9:05:21 PM PDT by
llevrok
(When you take my gin from my cold, dead hand....)
To: sionnsar
21 posted on
09/16/2006 9:06:57 PM PDT by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: skeptoid
That is one ugly plane. Fortunately they don't have to look pretty to haul cargo.
34 posted on
09/16/2006 9:58:57 PM PDT by
pctech
To: Mr. Mojo
72 posted on
09/17/2006 12:08:51 AM PDT by
NRA2BFree
(ISLAM IS A CULT OF DEATH AND NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH!)
To: skeptoid
Just curious, Is the cargo hold pressurized?
75 posted on
09/17/2006 4:16:44 AM PDT by
glorgau
To: skeptoid
How long until they bolt 1000 seats in the thing?
To: skeptoid
Looks like the 1960's guppy only with jet engines.
To: skeptoid
I JUST SAW HER YESTERDAY !!!!!!!!!!!
84 posted on
09/17/2006 8:28:18 AM PDT by
cmsgop
( President Mahmud Ahmadinejad Must Purify Himself in The Waters of Lake Minnetonka)
To: skeptoid
I'm proud of Boeing's innovations and awesome adapations to markets over the decades. I understand the thing has to have a certain shape to do its job,
but that color! Why rub salt in Ugly! LOL It's a good thing airplanes don't have feelings.
90 posted on
09/17/2006 2:07:22 PM PDT by
GretchenM
(What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
To: skeptoid
" Note the tiny humans wa-a-y back there. ... or i guess we're looking forward?"
If you filled the cargo bay with ping-pong balls would it exceed the plane's gross takeoff weight? I heard that a Guppy could not take off with a cargo compartment filled with ping-pong balls. That should give you an idea about the density of an upper stage (which the Guppies were built to carry).
91 posted on
09/17/2006 2:13:11 PM PDT by
No Truce With Kings
(The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
To: All
The highly sought after hinge side view:

98 posted on
09/18/2006 8:42:30 AM PDT by
skeptoid
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