To: BenLurkin
Sounds like a stupid idea.... commercial planes aren’t designed for the types stresses a military aircraft has built into them.
4 posted on
09/06/2009 9:37:26 AM PDT by
Mmogamer
(<This space for lease>)
To: Mmogamer
Well....to be fair, both the DC-10 and the 747 are in use as fire fighting planes -- even as we speak. That must push their tolerances.
![](http://www.contentedits.com/clientimages/1465/dc10wFireRetard_176.jpg)
Heck, built a bomber variant of the DC-10. Reopen the plant in Long Beach. We need jobs in SoCal!
To: Mmogamer
Sounds like a stupid idea.... commercial planes arent designed for the types stresses a military aircraft has built into them.
You have it ass backwards.
Commerical aircraft like the 737 for example have logged more air hours than any military aircraft known to man with more stress and cheaper per hour cost.
Commercial airline 737 airframe operations have consistently demonstrated less than 2.0 required maintenance man-hours per flight hour (MMH/FH) compared to an average 20+ MMH/FH for the EP-3E airframe.
15 posted on
09/06/2009 9:49:22 AM PDT by
WaterBoard
(Eventually, Socialists run out of other peoples' money to spend.)
To: Mmogamer
Heh, a couple of MIL-Spec toilet seats will perform miracles.
Look at what modifications were made to the Martin-MARS planes.
20 posted on
09/06/2009 9:54:23 AM PDT by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: Mmogamer
Sounds like a stupid idea.... commercial planes arent designed for the types stresses a military aircraft has built into them. The 747 is an over-engineered beast.
We've used Boeing 707s for decades and have thrown them around pretty good.
I have thousands of hours on military 707s and am continually surprised at how much punishment they can take.
25 posted on
09/06/2009 10:01:32 AM PDT by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: Mmogamer
Sounds like a stupid idea.... commercial planes arent designed for the types stresses a military aircraft has built into themYou are full of feces.
54 posted on
09/06/2009 5:19:15 PM PDT by
A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson