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Oldem
(833 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,984 posts)spanone
(137,285 posts)LeftInTX
(29,155 posts)LisaM
(28,309 posts)This all reminds me of the John Candy character in "Splash" -- he would drop a handful if change on the ground, then look up women's skirts.
True_Blue
(3,063 posts)Too funny!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)It is a very distinctive feature shared by only 707s (and the KC-135, the military version of the identical airplane).
If the antenna is not there, it isn't a 707.
Here:
pangaia
(24,324 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)But I know the 707 literally inside out, or at least the KC-135 Stratotanker, which is the same damned airplane from stem to stern (so to speak). It is a wonderful airplane, BTW.
I worked for six years on the KC-135R at Boeing in Wichita, KS. I did all the sonic testing on the newly re-engined airplane. With more than twice the thrust, the R variant is a real hot rod, and as my sonic tests demonstrated, a quiet one. If they had re-engined the commercial version similarly, they could still be flying. (Probably not, since the even newer engines are much more efficient.)
However, the KC-135s are still flying and refueling the Air Force in flight. And other stuff.
Here's the plane I worked on for nearly six years.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)And in that photo, those are Yuuge engines. :> )
I just like planes, love flying... A friend, an aerospace or aeronautical engineer, used to work on the Space Shuttle engines..
I mentioned maybe DC-3 because that'e the only other 4 engine American aircraft I can think of in that period.
My first commercial flight ever was on a DC-3 in 1961.
I remember my last flight on a 727, before 9/11, and I got to check out the cockpit. And this past weekend-- 2 flights on MD-88s.
longship
(40,416 posts)Three engines in the tail. A rather smallish air frame. The angle at take off was fucking awesome! And the combination of thrust and gravity really pressed one into ones seat!
What a ride! Literally pop up to cruising altitude.
I loved flying 727s.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Loudest commercial engines I ever heard...
Of course you've heard a lot more than I have..
But watching one of those take off.. the deafening roar and the burned kerosene spewing out the back...and it felt like going straight up..
Ah, the old days, eh....
PS.. I fly them on MSFS. sshh....
kiri
(847 posts)Aren't sex acts betweeen airplanes a violation of the rules? Especially since these airplanes are younger than 16.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Thay makes it even worse.😅
I flew on enough of them. Cramped and uncomfortable. I'm pretty sure that's what that is. Haven't flown on one for more than 40 years--thank goodness!
Firestorm49
(4,148 posts)Retired George
(332 posts)bucolic_frolic
(45,911 posts)Incredible synergy! rofl: :
MsMAC
(91 posts)LisaL
(46,144 posts)Ellen Forradalom
(16,176 posts)The final payback for the panty-sniffing persecution of Bill Clinton in the 90s.
irisblue
(33,788 posts)maybe pond scum?
Raine
(30,587 posts)ailsagirl
(23,430 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)keithbvadu2
(39,192 posts)Ilsa
(62,101 posts)Stars that point down.
keithbvadu2
(39,192 posts)Oh, well.
Ilsa
(62,101 posts)had pointed out was devilish in connotation. Otherwise, quite a nice update.
Mira
(22,454 posts)What a find. K&R
ColemanMaskell
(783 posts)Initech
(101,155 posts)stopwastingmymoney
(2,116 posts)jlarson
(6 posts)love this, good going!!!!!!!
yuiyoshida
(42,332 posts)Youkosou! Irrasshaimase! ようこそ いらっしゃいませ!!
calimary
(83,502 posts)Wouldn't surprise me to see some of the men including patent leather shoes for dress-up occasions (um, SO TO SPEAK!!!!! ). The lore back in Catholic school was that girls shouldn't wear patent leather shoes - that presumably could act as mirrors to allow a boy to look up your skirt.
trusty elf
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