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To: editor-surveyor

Especially if you are low on fuel with no available divert.

Pucker factor, indeed.


19 posted on 02/21/2012 2:41:21 PM PST by rlmorel ("A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill)
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To: rlmorel

THey will send up another plane with external tanks and refuel.

The problem is then they have another one to get down.


21 posted on 02/21/2012 2:55:53 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: rlmorel

Especially if you are low on fuel with no available divert.

Pucker factor, indeed.
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Add to that, if you have to eject, the chances of being spotted among the white caps and spray is close to nil.

Now talk pucker factor!


33 posted on 02/21/2012 4:08:18 PM PST by W. W. SMITH (Obama is Romney lite)
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To: rlmorel

Especially if you are low on fuel with no available divert.

Pucker factor, indeed
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That is definitely when your pucker factor goes into the negative range.


44 posted on 02/22/2012 4:49:19 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98) EGOIST - A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. A. Bierce)
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