OPPO, PSA

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 02/02/2017 at 14:58 • Filed to: planelopnik

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 15:01

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Oppo PSA: PSA was a thing, about which this is a PSA PSA. Pseriously.

jimz > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 15:03

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L-1011!

ttyymmnn > jimz 02/02/2017 at 15:04

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And a smiling one, at that.

EL_ULY > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 15:04

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Play Station Airlines?

ttyymmnn > EL_ULY 02/02/2017 at 15:05

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Yes. Exactly.

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 15:06

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EL_ULY > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 15:12

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Here is a video I took of a small plane in my back yard

ttyymmnn > EL_ULY 02/02/2017 at 15:29

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I need to come to your house and do some plane spotting. I’ll bring the beer and cigars.

Mercedes Streeter > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 15:40

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It’s so hard to choose a favourite tri-motor airliner! 

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 15:42

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If I’d know the Shriners took in members that look like that, I’d have tried hard to get in.

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 02/02/2017 at 15:42

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You missed your big chance to drive around in those little cars.

ttyymmnn > Mercedes Streeter 02/02/2017 at 15:43

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Do what I do and just like them all!

Mercedes Streeter > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 15:47

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But my Kinja handle would be too long! lol

Seriously though, at any given moment in time I have like 5 Chrome tabs open on my phone looking at various airliners from the 1970s-1980s. Shame I’ll likely never be able to fly on any of them. The 727 is in very limited service, the TriStar is in what appears to be even more limited service, and the DC-10 graduated into MD-10s/MD-11s and are flying for Fedex and Orbis nowadays. *cries*

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 15:50

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Right?

ttyymmnn > Mercedes Streeter 02/02/2017 at 15:52

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And the passenger 747 is on its last legs. It’s going to be all carbon fiber and twin-jets before too long. Don’t get me wrong, those are great planes. They just don’t have the charisma of the old birds.

Mercedes Streeter > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 16:05

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I’ve only started flying a few months ago! So far just an A320, an A321, and a CRJ900. All cool planes in their own ways! Though, there’s just something about older jets (especially the tri-motors) that really get me excited!!! I don’t know what about them, the style? The history? Their outright gorgeous beauty? :D

I’m most impressed by the fact that the An-225 is still in service. I wonder how many years it has left?

ttyymmnn > Mercedes Streeter 02/02/2017 at 16:19

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A lot more, it would seem. China has entered into an agreement with Antonov to start building them in China. They have taken the uncompleted second airframe, and all the technical information on their construction has been transferred. So we should start seeing some of them in the not too distant future. Of course, why the Chinese would need such a huge global logistics aircraft warrants some attention, especially considering their goals in the South China Sea.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/china-build-the-worlds-largest-plane%E2%80%8A—%E2%80%8A-ukraines-help-17583

Cé hé sin > Mercedes Streeter 02/02/2017 at 17:02

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The limiting factor in each airframe is how many times it can kneel at the front for loading and unloading.

Not many know that.

Jcarr > Mercedes Streeter 02/02/2017 at 17:07

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Trimotor, you say?

Jcarr > Mercedes Streeter 02/02/2017 at 17:11

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I got to tour the Orbis plane a few years ago. Pretty neat:

http://oppositelock.kinja.com/eyes-in-the-sky-the-orbis-flying-eye-hospital-1692422714

Also, a KC-10. You’re in IL, right? You should really go to Oshkosh sometime. That’s where I’ve gotten to see all these.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 17:27

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No Frisbee fairing on that top one. Was PSA a launch customer?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 17:29

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Smoking is bad for you, okay?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Jcarr 02/02/2017 at 17:30

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Took somebody long enough.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Cé hé sin 02/02/2017 at 17:31

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I certainly did not.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 17:31

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Perhaps the Iranians can buy those instead of Boeings.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/02/2017 at 17:31

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Eastern was the launch customer in 1972. My guess would be that PSA bought theirs used, or leased them.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/02/2017 at 17:32

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Then I won’t tell you what I’m doing right now.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/02/2017 at 17:33

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I can’t imagine the Boeing deal is going to survive the Apricot Pol Pot.

Mercedes Streeter > Jcarr 02/02/2017 at 17:36

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Expected Trimotor, left happy. :)

Mercedes Streeter > Jcarr 02/02/2017 at 17:37

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Wait, you can get that up close and personal at Oshkosh? *heart melts* It’s so gorgeous!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Mercedes Streeter 02/02/2017 at 17:39

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Give me a hot turboprop single. Or quadruple...

Mercedes Streeter > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 17:40

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Ooooh I remember reading that headline now, I hope it actually works out!!!! Though, that question still lingers, “but why?” Then again, Faraday Future...so I’m not entirely surprised.

Mercedes Streeter > Cé hé sin 02/02/2017 at 17:45

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Indeed! That’s what drew my question. I wonder how many flight hours the bird has on her? :)

Also, I hate you (kidding, of course). Now you sent me down the Google path to find the oldest planes in service...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 17:51

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I don’t know how many major businesses he can bully and screw over before the emperor’s clothes are seen for what they are not.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 17:52

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If it doesn’t involve suction removal of snake venom, then I’m not too worried. (Wash your hands with soap...)

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/02/2017 at 17:55

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What we need are a few principled Republicans to grow a pair and stand up to him. But they’re too obsessed with repealing the ACA, and don’t want to get on Drumpf’s shit list.

Jcarr > Mercedes Streeter 02/02/2017 at 18:18

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Oh yeah, Oshkosh is all about up close and personal.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 18:46

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I am hopeful as well. I credit them with having enough respect for the institution(s) to keep from just leaping in with both feet.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/02/2017 at 18:53

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Well, when you have Speaker Ryan go out of his way only to complain about the implementation of Trump’s Muslim ban, and not how it flies in the face of everything that this country was built upon, then I count him among the Quislings and facilitators of Trump’s megalomania. The silence from the right has been deafening.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 18:56

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Take the Gorsuch SCOTUS nomination. I may not like his politics, but I believe him to be a solid guy. I’m grateful for John McCain as well. And I just read that the Kill Obama(care) movement has lost some steam.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 19:01

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I had to look up Quisling . An apropos word coming from my historian brother, I would say. I hope that Ryan is better than that, more than that. He has hundreds of rowdy adolescent representatives to herd. He and others may be keeping their powder sealed and dry for the moment. Reports today have senior Republican senators calling Australian ambassadors and the prime minister apologing for their president being a jackass. Heartening.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/02/2017 at 20:28

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The Republicans have realized that they don’t need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The ACA needs to be fixed, not trashed. But now they’re screwed because they told everybody they were going to erase all vestiges of the Obama years. I’m going to enjoy watching then squirm.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 20:31

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I’ll enjoy watching them squirm from problems the Great Cheeto creates for them. Remember Karl Rove and Bush’s brain? Oh, for the good old days.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/02/2017 at 21:46

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What does it say when we find ourselves longing for Dubya? Or even Reagan?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 22:13

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I was nostalgic for The Gipper when Dubya was in office.

I wonder how much trouble Barack Obama will stir up for the Republicans moving forward. Margaret Thatcher went right back to her bench with the rabble after she left the prime ministership.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/02/2017 at 22:19

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He’s already spoken about about the immigration order, which is very rare for former Presidents. They usually disappear into the woodwork for a few years. Obama will be living in Washington, though. I hope Michelle becomes more vocal now that she’s no longer FLOTUS.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 22:25

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I’d like to see Mrs. Obama invite Mrs. Trump over for tea. Melania Trump: now there’s the person who’s out of their league...

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 22:51

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but jobs

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > ttyymmnn 02/02/2017 at 23:44

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ford trimotor is best trimotor

ttyymmnn > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 02/02/2017 at 23:47

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http://oppositelock.kinja.com/flying-history-ford-trimotor-nc8407-1657169831