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On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 11:56:09 -0500, john szalay <john.szalayatatt.net> wrote:
>Charles Lindbergh <spirit@stlouis.invalid> wrote in
>news:35oofa9hotvjlbvlnqe9s1hnpiv59us7um@4ax.com:
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>> On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 18:58:26 -0600, iaavisto@hotmail.com (Indrek)
>> wrote:
>>
>> Looks like something that would fly in and out of Groom Lake........
>
>
>we see a lot of that, each christmas season here at SDF , UPS leases
>extra aircraft to handle the overflow loads at Worldport. all of them
>are white plain-jane except for the required N-numbers..
>
>that being said..
>Heres a shot I took of the first 747-800 that made a stop here on its
>cross-country checkout flight, I had my airport CFR radio on that day,
>and the fire crews were talking about it coming in for a test landing on
>the newly extended west runway. grabbed my camera , radio and
>hightailed to the airport. they made their landing, taxied to the UPS
>ramp turnoff then turned around. sat for a minute and then took off.
>
>Got a video of the takeoff. made for an interesting break in the day.
>
>
That is a nice picture.
Kind of reminds me of a plan that was "discussed" in the Pentagon to take 747's
and fit them with several, in-fuselage, rotary launchers and load them up with
numerous nuclear tipped ALCMs. Obviously this was in the 1980's during the
Soviet era and the debate was whether they should be painted with US Air Force
markings or if they should be disguised as civilian airliners.
I thought it was kind of interesting no one immediately considered such an
approach, even if kept secret, would lead to the Soviets shooting down any and
all civilian airliners that even came close to their airspace. Admittedly, the
Soviets were kind of sketchy about western airliners in general.
Glad we now only have to deal with Putin shooting down airliners...........
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