Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Monday, September 13, 2010

787 Crosswind Operations



The aircraft is painted in ANA colors as ANA is the lead customer for the 787. Presumably, once the flight test program is done, ANA will receive that airplane.
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4 comments:

Nangleator said...

Those wings are bowed quite prettily. Are these tests done at maximum landing weight?

I feel deprived I never had to face a good, steady crosswind. Tew-Mac was buried in the trees and just had fascinating eddies of wind from time to time. Most of my other destinations seemed to be aligned very well.

Glad I never flew in Iceland, though. Those clouds looked like they had teeth.

9/13/2010 4:39 PM
montag said...

Do they know that somebody tied a tether ball to the tail?

9/13/2010 7:16 PM
Comrade Misfit said...

Montag, I think that was some sort of gizmo to measure the airflow coming from the tail.

Nangleator, I flew for years out of an airport with one runway that often was not very well aligned with the winds. It could get, um, interesting. I asked several times for them to put in a turf runway.

9/13/2010 8:26 PM
BadTux said...

Nangleator, have you ever seen a B-52 in flight? Nice bow to those wings too. Boeing has a history of making planes with nicely flexy wings...

EBM, presumably at the end of flight testing they will steam-clean the pilot's seat before turning over to ANA ;).

- Badtux the Flightless Penguin

9/14/2010 11:15 AM

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