Presenting the New Logo of the Republican Party
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Too funny!
It is a very distinctive feature shared by only 707s (and the KC-135, the military version of the identical airplane).
If the antenna is not there, it isn't a 707.
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But I know the 707 literally inside out, or at least the KC-135 Stratotanker, which is the same damned airplane from stem to stern (so to speak). It is a wonderful airplane, BTW.
I worked for six years on the KC-135R at Boeing in Wichita, KS. I did all the sonic testing on the newly re-engined airplane. With more than twice the thrust, the R variant is a real hot rod, and as my sonic tests demonstrated, a quiet one. If they had re-engined the commercial version similarly, they could still be flying. (Probably not, since the even newer engines are much more efficient.)
However, the KC-135s are still flying and refueling the Air Force in flight. And other stuff.
Here's the plane I worked on for nearly six years.
And in that photo, those are Yuuge engines. :>
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I just like planes, love flying... A friend, an aerospace or aeronautical engineer, used to work on the Space Shuttle engines..
I mentioned maybe DC-3 because that'e the only other 4 engine American aircraft I can think of in that period.
My first commercial flight ever was on a DC-3 in 1961.
I remember my last flight on a 727, before 9/11, and I got to check out the cockpit. And this past weekend-- 2 flights on MD-88s.
Loudest commercial engines I ever heard...
Of course you've heard a lot more than I have..
But watching one of those take off.. the deafening roar and the burned kerosene spewing out the back...and it felt like going straight up..
Ah, the old days, eh....
PS.. I fly them on MSFS. sshh....
Incredible synergy! rofl: :
Wouldn't surprise me to see some of the men including patent leather shoes for dress-up occasions (um, SO TO SPEAK!!!!! ). The lore back in Catholic school was that girls shouldn't wear patent leather shoes - that presumably could act as mirrors to allow a boy to look up your skirt.
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