Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/06

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Subject: Re: upside-down airplanes (was: [Leica] Optical Question)
From: Photo Phreak <leicam4pro@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:44:16 -0800 (PST)

Only an aviation nut ( yeah, I am ) would know that when
the prototype Boeing jetliner was first shown publically,
Boeing's chief test pilot did a full roll on the flyby.

  For which he got a royal asschewing.....

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- --- Douglas Herr <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Greg Locke wrote:
> 
> > At 11:56 AM 06/03/02 -0800, you wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > >They had done everything but a victory roll or fly
> upside down which I
> > >thought would be a cool experience in a 727. I know
> it's not like a
> > >Spitfire, but what the heck it's an aeroplane isn't
> it? ;-)
> > 
> > ... only until the wings fall off. Then its just
> another falling object :^)
> > 
>  
> Almost.  If the airplane's wings are not designed to
> support the weight of the fuselage when upside-down, the
> fuselage falls off the wings.
>  
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
> 
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