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"Snuze: Needs another Swede" (markg) 09/01/2020 at 11:27 • Filed to: None

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My transport for the day.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/01/2020 at 11:37

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Mrs. addiction got to ride the corporate jet a few times before they sold it in recent years. I’ll never let her live down calling it the “shuttle” (it regularly went back and forth between two offices).

For Sweden > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/01/2020 at 11:38

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This jet is juuuuuuuuuuust modern enough to be featured on Cars & Bids

For Sweden > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/01/2020 at 11:39

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Did she ever use the phrase “wheels up?”

Just Jeepin' > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/01/2020 at 11:39

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Watch out for jetpacks.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > For Sweden 09/01/2020 at 11:42

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She was using the word as shuttle bus , not space shuttle.

facw > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/01/2020 at 11:45

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This Is The Most Embarrassing Plane-Pooping Story Ever

user314 > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/01/2020 at 11:50

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I mean, she’s technically  correct...

TheRealBicycleBuck > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/01/2020 at 11:58

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Yes, lucky you.

Chariotoflove > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/01/2020 at 11:59

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ttyymmnn > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/01/2020 at 12:26

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Do you get to drive?

MoCamino > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/01/2020 at 12:35

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I used to travel for my work a few times per year. On occasion I would be lucky enough to be on one of the corporate jets. It was a very nice change from the giant cattle cars known as commercial jets. Just the convenience of it was nice enough, but the company pilots are just the nicest folks in the world.

I also once had to travel on the Beechcraft Bonanza the company had at the time. I was much less fond of that travel arrangement. I am not a fan of being on a plane with no toilet . :(

Corporate jet or not, I’m really glad I don’t have to travel anymore.  2020 can get stuffed.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > For Sweden 09/01/2020 at 15:43

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It still had a hard mounted analog phone in it.  Otherwise it was quite nice!

Snuze: Needs another Swede > ttyymmnn 09/01/2020 at 15:44

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Sadly, no, but it was a fun ride.  And 2 hours from West Palm Beach to DC!

ttyymmnn > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/01/2020 at 15:50

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You said “Palm Beach” and I thought California, and then I thought, “You were hauling ass!” Then I remembered Florida.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/02/2020 at 16:59

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We have a charter service we use that has a sketchy turbo prop.  I spent one trip watching a screw slowly back out of the engine cowling, it was not comforting.  The jet was a very nice upgrade. 

Snuze: Needs another Swede > MoCamino 09/02/2020 at 17:00

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I love traveling, but usually we fly commercial to West Palm B each, and then on a sketchy charter to our test site. So the jet was a very nice chang e of pace.  

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/02/2020 at 17:02

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Yeah, I want nothing to do with a sketchy plane!

Snuze: Needs another Swede > ttyymmnn 09/02/2020 at 17:02

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We’d have to be in an SR71 to make tha t kind of time, which would have been awesome!

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Chariotoflove 09/02/2020 at 17:03

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It was basically just like that, but with less dancing girls and more nerdy, stinky engineers.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/02/2020 at 17:06

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I haven’t seen that one this year, I think we got a newer, nicer turboprop.

ttyymmnn > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/02/2020 at 17:06

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The SR-71 went LA to DC in 68 minutes. Now that’s hauling ass. I’m trying to find the previous, non-Blackbird record. I think John Glenn might have set one, perhaps in an F-4. It was one of those early astronauts. 

ttyymmnn > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/02/2020 at 17:07

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Here it is: John Glenn, flying an F-8 Crusader, t hree hours, 23 minutes, and 8.4 seconds.

https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/john-glenns-project-bullet-138177585/

Chariotoflove > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/02/2020 at 17:30

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You do you. I won’t judge.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > ttyymmnn 09/02/2020 at 20:14

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That is still amazing! 

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Chariotoflove 09/02/2020 at 20:15

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Trust me, I would have preferred it with the dancing girls. 

ttyymmnn > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/02/2020 at 20:18

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And that’s with three midair refuel ings.

CaptDale - is secretly British > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/03/2020 at 12:47

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Did you forget your can of Axe body spray?