Originally posted by M-technik-3
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i have had the opportunity to ride on a few of them. in 1993, i took a continental 747-200 from newark to london gatwick and back. in about 1996, i rode northwest airlines in a 747-400 from detroit to bejing and back. this flight was 17 hours and some change. i believe it was the longest fight at the time. we actually flew over the arctic close to the north pole and also over siberia. i guess i have also ridden on several united generic 74's from honolulu to lax or chicago. finally, my brother and i flew on a whale from detroit to tokyo and back around 1997.
Originally posted by mrsleeve
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he used to bitch about the sikorsky sky crane. according to him, the aircraft was capable of lifting a lot more water than the tank shown in the photo above. apparently, no one ever made the effort to make better mods or a supplemental type certificate for it. he said something to the effect that it was kind of like a 7 foot basketball player with a 2" dick.
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