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Damn, I just cant win...... I'm still not going back over there though.....no way.

You have never met my sister.....just like my mother....evil.....

Do you think I would actually go back to her house for video? I would never make it out alive......

Wooooohoooooo!!!!! I'm a little late on this thread, but now I'm home and yes, getting drunk... Merry Christmas to you all......Dammit!

Lenny, Im a little jealous here.......

Well, there was tape laying there and the cat looking at me.....maybe I should of just come straight home after work and not stop by my sisters house. She is seriously mad at me.

I'm at work too. Waiting for one more plane to leave and then I'm headed to the house and drink many, many beers and maybe repaint one of the bathrooms. You think crown molding is a bit much for a bathroom?

I think you should see about getting a new mechanic. FallRate Wasn't me......I promise..

777, CRJ, 300 people or 50, it doesn't matter. The responsibility is the same. The smaller aircraft fly more legs, cycles. Same for mechanics.....I make less money because I work on the smaller aircraft, but the responsibility is all the same. This thought process of the bigger the aircraft, the more money is silly, but will always be in place. If the airline ever ask me to do something on the larger planes.....forget it. My paycheck doesnt reflect it.

I'm jealous! I'm working all night.

I drive with one hand on the wheel. Ride esculators without hanging onto the handrail. I sqeeze my toothpaste from the middle of the tube....Im out there pal.....right on the edge....Oh yeah, I've eaten peanut butter without a milk chaser....I'm nuttier than squirel turds.

Should be going back to Germany in June or July for 3 weeks. There's at least four of us thats bringing rigs with us.

Interesting.....I was in Germany a few years ago and we had a big weekend throwdown with a bunch of guys from Spain and Italy....We had a Dornier 27 for the weekend and not accustomed to the American practice of blood wings, we pinned the american wings on first...with the traditional pounding... well, needless to say when it was our turn to recieve the italian wings.....dude broke them on me when he hit me and called me a pig dog.......AIRBORNE!!!... sounds silly, and it is, but I still have that pair of wings and will never forget the moment. Great memories.

Deep down, I feel it all going to be OK......

Well, I havent had the pleasure of meeting the man, but this is kind of weird, (sheep and all). From the pics, he seems to be doing ok though.

Ive thought about becoming a pilot. The airline puts us through the sim and all that crap to better understand the systems. I can program the FMS, take off and fly anywhere, but I can't land the damn thing. Every time I try to land, I crash. The sim is the best place to do it though.

Dude, are you OK? I mean this is kind of weird...

Johnnie Walker red lable......ice and a little water.....and listening to Jimmy Buffet "Barometer Soup". Ain't Life sweet?

Open it. IIRC, some of 'em have a third leg, all MD-11's do, some DC-10's do.......then there's the glass cockpit.........or the winglets......only McD.......er........Boeing knows for sure........ Aircraft are so confusing now....some come down the the serial # as to what it actually is. MODs and so forth, I don't even try to keep up anymore.

I've never heard of a MD-10 and thought is was a mistake and actually a DC-10 or MD-11. I have learned something today. Thank you. Does this mean I can open the Johnnie Walker now?

plastic glass original copy

To add to this, this is an email I received. Sorry I couldn't upload all of the pics as the files were too large. If you want to see them all, PM me, and I will send them to you. Subject: Testimony to an A300B4 (Missile Damage to Airbus A-300) To those of you who are wondering what happened to the DHL A300B4 coming out of Baghdad last Saturday, take a look. Aircraft was hit at 8000 FT, lost ALL hydraulics and therefore had no flight controls, actually did a missed approach using only engine thrust and eventually (after about 16mins) landed heavily on runway 33L at Baghdad. This was fortunate because with no steering the aircraft veered of the runway to the left, had they landed on 33R veering to the left would have taken them straight into the fire station. The aircraft then travelled about 600 metres through soft sand taking out a razor wire fence in the process, see LH engine pic, and came to rest almost at the bottom of the sloping area between the runway and a taxiway. All three crew evacuated safely down the second slide, the first one tore on the razor wire. I flew in with a team on Tuesday in one of our Metros and some special equipment we'd had made locally in Bahrain and some provided by Airbus. Using a USAF D9 Caterpillar pulling a 100 metre cable fitted to the back end of each bogie and a nice new aircraft pushback tug with a towbar on the nose gear, we were able to remove the aircraft just on dusk on Tuesday night and towed it to an Iraqi Airways graveyard on one side of the terminal. We stayed overnight in the USAF camp on the airport and went back to the aircraft on Wednesday morning to allow the insurance survey to be completed and then secure the aircraft. Basically, LH engine rotates in a fashion, has ingested lots of razor wire and is knackered. RH engine has seized, probably from ingesting loads of sand at maximum reverse thrust and inlet cowl has unacceptable lip damage, probably from hitting the razor wire fence posts. The No 8 axle appears to be cracked as the wheel sits at an odd angle. The bulk of the damage is the LH wing. About 3 metres of rear spar is missing in front of the outboard flap, the wing has bulged upwards and downwards where the initial explosion appears to have occurred, one O/B flap track is hanging in the breeze and one has a small piece of flap still attached, the rest of the flap is nonexistent. The pics show the huge crack that has occurred to the rear spar inboard of where the spar has burnt away, possibly from loads on the wing during the landing process. The front spar appears to be intact. The point of entry pics show where a projectile entered Tank 1A, which was full of fuel, and, after it ignited, proceeded to burn away at the spar. The fuel tank ribs in the area directly in front of the O/B flap are burnt almost 50% through. The crew obviously did a fantastic job in getting the aircraft back on to the ground and one can only assume that it was most fortunate that they were not aware of the state of the wing as they could not see it from the cockpit. It also says a lot for the structure of the aircraft that it withstood the impact of the (whatever is finally determined to have hit it). I'm sure there will be lots of other photos and videos flying around the net, but at least these ones are genuine. The worst part for us was the airport was shut down on Wednesday and we had to be driven in an armour-plated Landcruiser Troop Carrier from Baghdad to Balad, 60 miles to the north, from where we flew back to Bahrain in our Metro again. I trust you will all appreciate just how lucky these guys were. Regards, DHL International Aviation, Bahrain.

I probably should of died a few years ago....

Yes I have. Damn that bad of an impression....you dont even remember me?

Hmmm....I would have to say Chaoskitty....as far as those I have not met in person. VanillaSkyGirl...from reading her post and seeing her pics, Rosa is a beautiful person inside and out.