Posted on 10/18/2011 3:02:52 PM PDT by CTOCS
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Those American Airlines pilots have no clue as to how to lower the nose of a 727. It is possible, with normal skills , to lower the nose wheel onto a truck bed. However as the speed decreased (not in the video) the front end of the truck would be raised and the rear tires of the truck would be seriously stressed but the truck would not be “crushed.” A FAKE for sure. I would guess that the minimum speed to lower the nose wheel would be about 100 kts but how the hell could the pilot even see the truck?? Sorry AA, do you remember how tail heavy the three holer was? Had to have the aft airstair extended to even board passengers in the aft cabin....
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It looked kind of like a Boeing 727, but too fat...I think it is some graphics animator who created it and thought it looked good as a wide body...:)
The 727 was a hell of a plane. Good design, I always felt safe in them...not like those damned DC-10’s. THOSE gave me the heebie-jeebies.
That was a Boeing 727 in the commercial; interestingly, it had winglets (the little fins on the end of the wings), which a very small number of 727s were ever re-fitted with very recently. An L-1011 is considerably larger (and over twice as heavy) as a 727.
They probably either did the 727 completely with CGI, or found one of the very few privately-owned 727s still flying—hence the winglets, which are a modern retrofit—and used it as a model to base the CGI around.
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This country is doomed. People no longer have “ANY” common sense. That would include you.
remember the volvo commercial where they faked the monster truck be unable to crush it? the were exposed when pictures were revealed showing them welding steel girders inside the truck.
Reminds me of a short story I read many, many years ago. It seems that during an airborne training mission one of parachutes got hung up on the Globemaster they were jumping from. Fortunately, there was a hotrodder on base that was able to catch the dangling paratrooper, cut the harness and carry him to safety.
I liked it when I was 15 but it seems highly unlikely now.
The pilot flew as slow as he could above the runway while someone drove a fast car under it and someone climbed through the sunroof, reached up and yanked the wheel down.
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I remember this. There were a couple of pics.
I have never stopped appreciating men and the difficult and dangerous jobs that they do.
Without men there would be no skyscrapers, high tension lines, big bridges, subway tunnels or ocean going vessels.
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