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Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter Successfully Tests Swing Tail
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| Oct. 23, 2006
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Posted on 10/24/2006 9:42:44 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: ErnBatavia
"I understand the physics of flight, but I still love to watch (and listen to) something as big as a 747 take off..."
My neighboors dont like me. I bought Flight Sim X over the weekend. I have a 1000 watt 14 inch subwoofer. Cranked that bad boy up and spent 2 hours doing take off and landings in a 747 over the weekend. On startup the pens and pencils in my pencil cup on my desk start to dance :)
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posted on
10/24/2006 10:48:03 AM PDT
by
Syntyr
(Food for the NSA Line Eater -> "terrorist" "bomb" "plot" "kill" "overthrow" "coup de tas")
To: ErnBatavia
I got to see a Korean Air 747 blast off from Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta yesterday while I was sitting in C Concourse waiting to catch a flight up here to Richmond. 350+ tons of metal tearing into the sky with all that noise...it's mechanical poetry in motion.
Although somebody needs to tell KAL that nothing that big should be painted baby blue.
}:-)4
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posted on
10/24/2006 10:50:59 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(They caught me white and nerdy.)
To: Semper Vigilantis
An absolutely amazing aircraft! My hat's off to those Boeing engineers.Shouldn't that read "My hat's off to those Boeing Russian engineers.
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posted on
10/24/2006 11:05:24 AM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Paleo Conservative
Wonder what would happen if they made a double decker out of the thing with 850 seats?
Or at least one more row of seats than the Airboob A380?
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posted on
10/24/2006 12:11:07 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
To: Moose4
Although somebody needs to tell KAL that nothing that big should be painted baby blue. What about KLM?
To: N. Theknow
Wonder what would happen if they made a double decker out of the thing with 850 seats? They'd all die from asphyxiation. The cargo compartment of the LCF is not pressurized.
To: Paleo Conservative
KLM's planes are only *half* baby blue. :) Actually that top blue is just a shade darker than the KAL planes, if I remember correctly.
}:-)4
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posted on
10/24/2006 12:42:44 PM PDT
by
Moose4
(They caught me white and nerdy.)
To: null and void
It's not a military cargo jet so the aircraft doesn't need to have that capability. If they did, it would be during the mother of all left turns.
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posted on
10/24/2006 12:49:05 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
To: Moose4
350+ tons of metal tearing into the sky with all that noise...it's mechanical poetry in motion. I like that. Nice imagery.
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posted on
10/24/2006 1:06:58 PM PDT
by
phantomworker
("Whatever you do will not be enough, but it matters enormously that you do it." - Gandhi)
To: Paleo Conservative
I think this is 787. The 747 integration is different.
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posted on
10/24/2006 1:10:58 PM PDT
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phantomworker
("Whatever you do will not be enough, but it matters enormously that you do it." - Gandhi)
To: phantomworker
It is the 787, but these are the pieces that will be transported by the 747LCF.
To: null and void; Yo-Yo; patton; sionnsar
How do you air drop from that thing??? Well, the paratroopers wouldn't have a problem coming out in a hurry, once the "tail door" comes open.
The pilot, on the other hand, .....
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10/24/2006 1:16:33 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Paleo Conservative
They'd all die from asphyxiation. The cargo compartment of the LCF is not pressurized. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It can't be "made" in a passenger version?
Wonder if water cooler chit chat at Boeing has opined that it could cause an Airboob corporate, rectal vapor lock en masse if they said they were studying the feasibility of doing it.
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posted on
10/24/2006 2:24:26 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
To: N. Theknow
... water cooler chit chat... I think it's all bottled water now. ;) Not sure of that particular model, but there are 747 combi's.
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posted on
10/24/2006 2:57:51 PM PDT
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phantomworker
("Whatever you do will not be enough, but it matters enormously that you do it." - Gandhi)
To: N. Theknow
It can't be "made" in a passenger version? It costs too much, and the modification didn't increase the maximum takeoff weight. These modified 747's are being converted in small quantities and are not being built with mass production methods. You'd want a passenger jet to be more aerodynamically efficient. The extra large fuselage has more drag.
To: Paleo Conservative
Geez, there's a whole row of passengers on that plane whose fares just went to getting new tires.
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posted on
10/24/2006 5:41:36 PM PDT
by
Textide
To: PAR35
"Shouldn't that read "My hat's off to those Russian engineers."Yes, it should.
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posted on
10/24/2006 7:19:55 PM PDT
by
SW6906
(6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
To: avg_freeper
Oh, you're good....real good. Fun playing with the newbie engineers, isn't it? ;o)
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posted on
10/24/2006 7:22:08 PM PDT
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SW6906
(6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
To: Paleo Conservative
Bringing the parts together in EverettThose are some of the worst attempts at great circle routes I've ever seen! Don't they know there are more direct routes that can be taken?
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10/24/2006 7:25:05 PM PDT
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SW6906
(6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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