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Mysterious Midair Dent in Jetliner’s Nose
The New York Times ^
| July 7, 2008
| Micheline Maynard
Posted on 07/08/2008 10:39:50 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76
“Blue” Ice dropped from a jet liner at 30,000 feet?
To: george76
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:49:07 AM PDT
by
Guenevere
(Solus Christus)
To: george76
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:52:32 AM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
(The world WILL be cleaner, safer and more productive without Islam.)
To: Polybius; JennysCool
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07/09/2008 4:55:14 AM PDT
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FreeAtlanta
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To: george76
NW Airlines? No surprise. They’re the home built, primer coated, grease monkey jalopies of the air.
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07/09/2008 6:09:14 AM PDT
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al_c
(Avoid the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity)
To: george76
There are no stringers backing up the nose cone of an
airplane . Could be plain fatigue failure due to air pressure, given maybe an initial crack there.... Or maybe they hit a bird.
To: Prophet in the wilderness
Hail usually makes hundreds of smaller dents - all along the leading edges of the tail, stabilizer, wings, engine inlets, etc.
Birds do that exact kind of damage, but most of the bird-brain impact damages occur either in Washington, or the bird’s body is still stuck in radar dome.
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07/09/2008 6:44:16 AM PDT
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Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: JennysCool
A UFO with a cloaking devise? LOL!
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07/09/2008 7:04:38 AM PDT
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Tolkien
(Grace is the Essence of the Gospel; Gratitude is the Essence of Ethics.)
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posted on
07/09/2008 9:03:33 AM PDT
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70th Division
(If we lose the Republic we have lost it all.)
To: Tolkien
It was the Secret Service!
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posted on
07/10/2008 11:24:37 AM PDT
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Islander7
("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
To: george76
Ah well, he knew the job was dangerous when he took it...
To: george76
Clinton operatives must have thought it was Barry’s jet. oops !
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posted on
07/10/2008 11:33:54 AM PDT
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dforest
(I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
To: lildoc511
where thunderstorm cells can reach in excess of 60,000’ altitude.
I remember flying from Sydney to Hono, and over the middle of the Pacific seeing massive thunderheads, as if we were on the ground.
Really impressed me, since the 747 was probably at 37,000...
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07/10/2008 11:35:19 AM PDT
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ErnBatavia
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To: valkyry1
It looks almost like the cone was sucked in by a pressure differential.
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07/10/2008 12:30:59 PM PDT
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Old Professer
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To: lildoc511
If you slice a hailstone at the equator it looks like a tree ring slice.
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07/10/2008 12:32:32 PM PDT
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Old Professer
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