 New Casino Royale Modified Boeing 747-XXX Photographs |
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York  |
30 August 2006 - 00:59
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Now on the CBn main page...
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 14 October 2005 From: the bottle to the belly! |
30 August 2006 - 14:47
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Well, I don't know piddly about planes, but that thing certainly is a beast.
(I know about the physics and all that, but it still amazes me that those things can stay in the air. I swear somehow physics is cheating.)  |
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Sub-Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 26 February 2005 From: UK Midlands |
30 August 2006 - 23:33
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A Boeing 747 displayed at a Duxford air show a year or so ago and although I'm not usually into airliners, I was amazed at what this aeroplane could do.
It flew so low (as low as permitted) and slow that you would think that it should drop out of the sky. It also did a complete circuit inside the airfield perimeter, which for its size was amazing. I'm not sure, but I think that it belonged to South African Airways, great pilot wherever it came from. |
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 30 August 2001 From: A secret hollowed out volcano in Sydney (33.79294� South, 150.93805� East) |
30 August 2006 - 23:40
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Interesting that Boeing's own website makes no mention of a "747-xxx" at all.
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Lt. Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 31 December 2005 From: Hawaii |
31 August 2006 - 03:32
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QUOTE(Blofeld's Cat @ 30 August 2006 - 13:40)  That's because it's not a real aircraft. It's basically a 747 that has beeen dressed up by the production designers to be some kind of never seen before prototype. I'm no expert in aerodynamics but after showing the pics to a few friends that do it seems that this prototype would never get off the ground. However that should be way over the heads of the average audience so I doubt it'll be a problem.  "switch the bloody machine off!!!" |
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