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BruceH
Mostly Retired
Where do I sign up?
Seems worth it.
Dave Sarber
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Installing a JT9-59 on a DC10-40.
Robert65
Major Obvious (recently promoted)
No effing idea what that means, but cool shiny stuff, man!
It means our friend has been hanging a freakin' big jet engine on an old jumbo freighter. Pretty cool!
I rode on a lot of DC10s in their passenger-carrying heydays. Preferred the L1011, actually, but it was a smooth riding bird...
Cheers!
I rode on a lot of DC10s in their passenger-carrying heydays. Preferred the L1011, actually, but it was a smooth riding bird...
Cheers!
Robert65
Major Obvious (recently promoted)
I remember flying on those... and lots of other extinct birds... and they had smoking sections... damn I feel antiquated...
Dave Sarber
Unindicted Co-conspirator
The cool thing about old airplanes is that most of the younger mechanics don't have a clue. I get called for a lot of DC10 work!
the early-mid 90s DL configured L1011 was my favorite bird to fly when upgraded to F
Dave Sarber
Unindicted Co-conspirator
Oddly enough, I've worked on DC10's for the last 20 years, but I've never flown on one. Taxi and engine runs, but always firmly on the ground.
That seems about right - they stopped building them in 1988, and Northwest retired the last passenger version still in scheduled service for US airlines in 2007...
Cheers!
Cheers!
Dave Sarber
Unindicted Co-conspirator
Yeah, in this case, I'm working for Omega, an Irish company that converts them to aerial tankers, then flies them on contract for the USN. Working on getting an AF contract now.
Dave Sarber
Unindicted Co-conspirator
Also did a lot of work for ATA, now bankrupt, who used them to fly servicemen overseas. They went bellyup about 2010, and the aircraft went to World Airlines, but I don't think they're flying any now, having switched to MD11's, which is just an updated DC10. Used to build MD11 fuselage sections for General Dynamics in San Diego.
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You sure you didn't just paste breweries at the start end of existing missile tragectories?
I have only flown on one DC 10, it was British Airways named Epping Forest, it was later written off due to running off of the runway in Bogota MC DONNELL - DOUGLAS DC - 10
Aerial tankers - as in in-air refuelers? (does the USA actually sub-contract that out now??
)Or fire-bombers? (Very cool but wicked tough on airframes as has been seen).
Or milk trucks with wings? ("And now, for something completely different!"
)Cheers!
Dave Sarber
Unindicted Co-conspirator
Yep. As in aerial refueling.Aerial tankers - as in in-air refuelers? (does the USA actually sub-contract that out now??
Or fire-bombers? (Very cool but wicked tough on airframes as has been seen).
Or milk trucks with wings? ("And now, for something completely different!"
Cheers!
I've also worked on converting 747's and MD80's to fire bombers, but never any aerial milk trucks!
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...Or milk trucks with wings? ("And now, for something completely different!"
My mind immediately went to big, shiny riveted aluminum udders under the fuselage. That's it dammit, this is my last beer for the night.
Very nice shot.
That balances the scene I witnessed with Ma Nature at her cruelest the other day...
Cheers!
That balances the scene I witnessed with Ma Nature at her cruelest the other day...
Cheers!
Chuck Bukowski -- Is that in San Pedro?
Charles Bartowski would have been funnier...
Does that make it an “away” party fowl?
Charles Bukowski
Russian immigrant I think, poet, wrote some really dark prose with a twist.
From memory?
what a man I was
they slipped the noose around my neck
I swung out wide, spit in the bartenders eye
and stared down nelly adams breasts one last time
Eric
Russian immigrant I think, poet, wrote some really dark prose with a twist.
From memory?
what a man I was
they slipped the noose around my neck
I swung out wide, spit in the bartenders eye
and stared down nelly adams breasts one last time
Eric
Snark_Wolf_Brewing
Snark Wolf Brewing
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Snark_Wolf_Brewing
Snark Wolf Brewing
Chuck Bukowski lived in San Pedro, California when he died in 1994 and is probably best known (among non-fans) for writing the screenplay for a movie called "Barfly" with Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway.
This violates George Carlin’s rule that the best comedy is universal. But, it’s a way to find out how many aeronautically knowledgeable folks are here-
“How to tell if someone owns, or works on, a Cessna”
“How to tell if someone owns, or works on, a Cessna”
USA product and they ship it to Mexico to pack and bring it back
That's pretty crazy! On a related note, my dad helped build a couple of packing plants in Indio, presumably so this exact thing wouldn't happen. I also wonder if there is any testing done to prove if the dates sent down are the same dates sent back. The whole deal sounds shady...
Dave Sarber
Unindicted Co-conspirator
Hmm....
I look at this bird and think: "CIA"
I look at this bird and think: "CIA"
BruceH
Mostly Retired
Hmm....
I look at this bird and think: "CIA"
I think "the only airplane I've ever specifically said not to make a part of my flight plan when making reservations".
It just doesn't look right, there's a big ass turbo fan in the tail. Not sure how a fuse pin would work in the tail?
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