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1 posted on 01/22/2015 8:41:56 AM PST by BenLurkin
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Keep the thing away from thunderstorms.

Airbus has not exactly been scoring big in that arena.


2 posted on 01/22/2015 8:44:52 AM PST by Da Coyote
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3 posted on 01/22/2015 8:53:55 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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4 posted on 01/22/2015 8:54:42 AM PST by Bobalu (Programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file)
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Not a new concept.
B-377SG Super Guppy Flew 1965
A modified Boeing Stratocruiser, which was a modified B-29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Spacelines_Super_Guppy


7 posted on 01/22/2015 9:08:58 AM PST by Vinnie
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It's got nothing on the Boeing Dreamlifter....


9 posted on 01/22/2015 9:18:53 AM PST by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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You'd think that rather than carrying the wings of an A340 airliner inside, they would figure out a way to just bolt those wings onto the fuselage of the aircraft as a sort of temporary biplane and simply fly them to their destination.

(Yes, I am kidding.)

14 posted on 01/22/2015 9:52:37 AM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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Visions of I Dream of Jeannie when Jeannie didn’t want Maj. Nelson sailing on a big cement ship.


16 posted on 01/22/2015 10:17:52 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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