Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos)
Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) MegaDork
11/18/23 10:25 p.m.

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
11/19/23 1:07 a.m.
Duke said:

In reply to Appleseed :

13 minutes on site, I assume?  So, plus transit time.  Warehouse roof or some reason they couldn't use a boom?

 

Price for a mobile crane was within $10,000. Waiting list was till next spring.

BenB
BenB HalfDork
11/19/23 6:55 a.m.

Back in the 80s, Erickson used a Guppy to haul their helicopter around. They brought it to Kinston NC to put an AC unit on top of the hospital.


914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
11/19/23 9:07 a.m.

914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
11/19/23 10:05 a.m.

MyMiatas
MyMiatas HalfDork
11/19/23 11:38 a.m.

In reply to BenB :

Those Helocopters must have few and far between.  Makes no sense to fly a plane with a 'copter inside. Then assemble it to fly then disassembled it to fly it back. 

mtn
mtn MegaDork
11/19/23 12:03 p.m.

MyMiatas
MyMiatas HalfDork
11/19/23 12:15 p.m.

And it is a real car....

MyMiatas
MyMiatas HalfDork
11/19/23 12:19 p.m.
NickD
NickD MegaDork
11/19/23 12:40 p.m.

NickD
NickD MegaDork
11/19/23 1:05 p.m.

Indy - Guy
Indy - Guy UltimaDork
11/19/23 1:17 p.m.
914Driver said:

Cool, everyone deserves their 15 minutes of fame.

 

Pic unrelated:

Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos)
Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) MegaDork
11/19/23 1:39 p.m.

I'm not a big lacrosse fan, but when the merch is available, I am 100% getting a logo hat and possibly a polo for reasons which may be obvious.

preach
preach UltraDork
11/19/23 3:30 p.m.

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
11/19/23 3:41 p.m.
MyMiatas said:

In reply to BenB :

Those Helocopters must have few and far between.  Makes no sense to fly a plane with a 'copter inside. Then assemble it to fly then disassembled it to fly it back. 

The fuel burn is about the same. The Guppy flys 3 times as fast and requires half the maintenance.

BenB
BenB HalfDork
11/19/23 3:48 p.m.

I wish I could find the pics I took inside the Guppy. They literally cut the top of the C-97 fuselage off starting just aft of the flight engineer's panel. It looked like a warehouse with one of those museum cockpit displays down at one end. 

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
11/19/23 3:55 p.m.

The original, they didn't even remove the fuselage, just built it right over the top. Only after they tied everything together did they cut it out. Simply bonkers. But it worked.

 

nderwater
nderwater UltimaDork
11/19/23 7:47 p.m.

Indy - Guy
Indy - Guy UltimaDork
11/20/23 8:10 a.m.

 

914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
11/20/23 9:38 a.m.

Wow!  A 1967 Chevy wagon ordered with a 385hp 427 with an M-20 4 speed.  heart

914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
11/20/23 9:54 a.m.

914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
11/20/23 10:00 a.m.

In reply to Indy - Guy :

If you're standing there for 15 minutes peeing .......

 

Duke
Duke MegaDork
11/20/23 3:29 p.m.

DeadSkunk  (Warren)
DeadSkunk (Warren) UltimaDork
11/20/23 3:30 p.m.

May be an image of text

914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
11/21/23 8:02 a.m.

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