Some Guy Tried to Sell A DC-9 on Craigslist

"Round headlight enthusiast" (round-headlight-enthusiast) 12/02/2014 at 19:36 • Filed to: None

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The ultimate NPOCP

http://www.macon.com/2014/09/07/329…

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Round headlight enthusiast 12/02/2014 at 19:39

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"High miles"

Round headlight enthusiast > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 12/02/2014 at 19:44

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"Only 39,000,000 miles, like new, does not run, think it might be alternator, lots of spare parts!!"

PS9 > Round headlight enthusiast 12/02/2014 at 19:53

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"Feelin' so fly like a DC-9" Doesn't have the same ring to it.

CP.

Cebu > Round headlight enthusiast 12/02/2014 at 19:56

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This or a new Corvette... decisions decisions.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Round headlight enthusiast 12/02/2014 at 19:57

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"JDM as Fuck" sticker on windshield can be removed

Round headlight enthusiast > Cebu 12/02/2014 at 20:00

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OK, well think this through, how many people do you know that own a commercial airliner?

Alex from Toronto > Round headlight enthusiast 12/02/2014 at 20:08

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"Ran when parked"

The Transporter > Round headlight enthusiast 12/02/2014 at 20:21

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"Ran when parked, needs new apu"

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > Round headlight enthusiast 12/02/2014 at 21:10

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10/10 would drive.

If i don't have house already i might buy this and live inside them.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Round headlight enthusiast 12/02/2014 at 21:27

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"Ran when parked"

NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > Round headlight enthusiast 12/02/2014 at 22:45

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"Flew when parked."

Round headlight enthusiast > NotUnlessRoundIsFunny 12/02/2014 at 22:52

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Wait. what. how is that even possible?

NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > Round headlight enthusiast 12/02/2014 at 22:56

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Just seems like something you'd read in a Craigslist ad.

NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > Round headlight enthusiast 12/02/2014 at 22:59

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Also this makes me really want to text the guy with all sorts of ridiculous questions.

"How much to ship to Seattle? Is it a manual? Does it have snow tires?"

Etc.

Round headlight enthusiast > NotUnlessRoundIsFunny 12/02/2014 at 23:02

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is it a manual? Oh my god, just imagine if planes somehow had a transmission.

Cebu > Round headlight enthusiast 12/03/2014 at 10:17

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None! I'll be the first kid on my block to own a real-working (almost) airliner! Billy down the street is gonna be positively green with envy!

Cameron Tu > Round headlight enthusiast 12/09/2014 at 23:55

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So this is an old-ish post by now. But I just wanted to let you know that planes.. do have transmissions now.. kind of. Before you tell me to GTFO, just bear with me!

Bombardier, Embraer, and Airbus are all planning (or currently testing) the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G engine, known as the GTF (oh, GTFO!!) or Geared Turbofan. It's not exactly a "transmission" but the engine basically uses a planetary reduction gearbox.

In practice, this allows the low-pressure shaft, located behind the main fan-blades, to rotate at higher speeds than the fan-blades.. reducing the amount of stages required to compress air pre-ignition. I *think* this will also allow the low-pressure shaft to rotate at varying speeds (whatever is optimal). Previous-generation turbofans, I assume, had low-pressure shafts that spun at the same speed as the main fan-blade and required several "stages" of compressors, each successive one spinning faster, to reach optimal levels of compression.

Hopefully that makes sense.. but yeah! Airplanes have proto-transmissions! (The Flying Engineer has an excellent write up on the PW1100G, if you are interested)