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2017-01-06 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Steve White 2017-01-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Wonder how close it 'landed' to the pipeline protesters camp?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-01-06 01:11|| 2017-01-06 01:11|| Front Page Top

#2 An extra part. Sorta like when you take the CD player apart and can't find homes for all those little pieces but it still seems to work.

Posted by gorb 2017-01-06 01:34|| 2017-01-06 01:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Officials said that there was no threat to public safety and that an investigation has been started.

Wing commander, master crew chief, and ground operations chiefs all going to be losing their jobs...

Sadly, the best case scenario here is some incredible fudge-up on the part of the maintainers - if Miss Buffy has developed some sort of structural problem, that will be it for the fleet.....

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-01-06 05:00|| 2017-01-06 05:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Officials said that there was no threat to public safety...

This was true after the engine stopped bouncing...

Posted by BrerRabbit 2017-01-06 07:55|| 2017-01-06 07:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Old craft. Made by Boeing who had just a few years earlier turned out the B-17. Kill some time on google pics to see what shape some of those aircraft looked like after a spin over Germany. You ask yourself, how in the hell did that fly home.

Actually, you need all the engines to get the bird aloft. Once aloft you can still operate on less thrust unless you get a critical.

B-52, the closest thing the zoomies have to a M2. Something that does it job so well, its really hard to come up with a replacement (that doesn't cost 18 trillion dollars).

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-01-06 08:03|| 2017-01-06 08:03|| Front Page Top

#6 My first thought when I read the articles was "It could not be for very long, but if the engine was running when it dropped loose, it had to keep running for a second or four even minus fuel, air, hydraulic and electrical connections." Like something out of a Bruce Willis Die Hard movie...

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-01-06 08:36|| 2017-01-06 08:36|| Front Page Top

#7 ~~BOMBS away~~ Engines away!!

Posted by DarthVader 2017-01-06 09:04|| 2017-01-06 09:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Root cause analysis will probably point to the crew chief not completing the transgender awareness course.

Posted by Tzsenator 2017-01-06 12:06|| 2017-01-06 12:06|| Front Page Top

#9 A military pilot called for a priority landing because his single-engine jet fighter was running “a bit peaked.” Air Traffic Control told the fighter pilot that he was number two, behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down. “Ah,” the fighter pilot remarked, “The dreaded seven-engine approach.”

Posted by Beavis 2017-01-06 12:33|| 2017-01-06 12:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Beavis, you are gonna owe a lot of folks keyboards for that link......

Posted by USN, Ret 2017-01-06 15:40|| 2017-01-06 15:40|| Front Page Top

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