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To: dixiechick2
"My husband is a former American Airlines pilot"

Ask your husband for me if that was an L-1011 in the commercial? I think it is but not certain. I don't see them around anymore.

48 posted on 10/18/2011 3:59:22 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Obama has NEVER given a speech where he did not lie!!!)
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To: AGreatPer

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.


84 posted on 10/18/2011 8:20:30 PM PDT by rlmorel (9/11: Aggression is attracted to weakness like sharks are to blood, and we were weak. We still are.)
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To: AGreatPer

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.

}:-)4


86 posted on 10/19/2011 4:31:13 AM PDT by Moose4 ("Oderint dum metuant" -- "Let them hate, as long as they fear." (Lucius Accius, c. 130 BC))
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