Comments on: Episode 53 – Benet, Jon, and Mary http://www.airplanegeeks.com/2009/06/24/episode-53-benet-jon-and-mary/ Podcasting Aviation Greatness Since 2008. The Airplane Geeks talk about the latest in the airline industry, general aviation, and military aviation. If it flies, we\'re talking about it. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:39:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: maxflight http://www.airplanegeeks.com/2009/06/24/episode-53-benet-jon-and-mary/comment-page-1/#comment-452 maxflight Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:08:46 +0000 http://www.airplanegeeks.com/?p=295#comment-452 Steve Visscher, the other member of the Airplane Geeks Australia Desk, sends this: From the Australia Desk Passengers told to 'balance out plane' - Yahoo!7 News http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5676842/passengers-told-to-balance-out-plane/ Steve Visscher, the other member of the Airplane Geeks Australia Desk, sends this:

From the Australia Desk

Passengers told to ‘balance out plane’ – Yahoo!7 News
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5676842/passengers-told-to-balance-out-plane/

]]> By: maxflight http://www.airplanegeeks.com/2009/06/24/episode-53-benet-jon-and-mary/comment-page-1/#comment-451 maxflight Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:06:35 +0000 http://www.airplanegeeks.com/?p=295#comment-451 Grant, of Airplane Geeks Australia Desk fame sends this: hi Guys, Apparently the 787 is being delayed AGAIN - this time 'cos they need to reinforce a side-area of the aircraft??? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31508140/ns/business-businessweekcom/ Cheers, Grant http://www.flymefriendly.com http://www.twitter.com/falcon124 Grant, of Airplane Geeks Australia Desk fame sends this:

hi Guys,

Apparently the 787 is being delayed AGAIN – this time ‘cos they need to reinforce a side-area of the aircraft???

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31508140/ns/business-businessweekcom/

Cheers,

Grant
http://www.flymefriendly.com
http://www.twitter.com/falcon124

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Hey Y’all!

I thought you would enjoy this, if you haven’t already seen it, and
assuming it’s not BS. I didn’t check it too thoroughly for veracity.
It doesn’t show up on Snopes.com though :o )

Cheers! Jamie

Read the detailed experience of the NASA pilot who flew the 747 carrying
the space shuttle Atlantis back to the Kennedy Space Center from
Columbus AFB, where it recovered after the Hubble repair mission.. A bit
lengthy, but trust me… worth every second reading. Very good
narrative of what it was like to fly with the quirks and challenges of a
very heavily loaded and ‘draggy’ B747. You will feel that you were
there (Makes it sound like the astronauts had the easy part, which we
know can’t be so.)

[What follows is an interesting but rather long email from the pilot "Triple Nickel." Rather than take up space here, I found another page that has the email text, so I'll just post the link here...

http://infinite-frontier.blogspot.com/2009/06/nasa-747-pilot-shares-experience.html

Enjoy. Max]

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