Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Pelosi: Now this offer is way over the top!

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) Donate to DU
 
El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 11:06 PM
Original message
Pelosi: Now this offer is way over the top!
Hastert needs this way more than me.



BTW, this is a "Pregnant Guppy" used to fly rocket boosters.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 11:07 PM
Response to Original message
1. Don't you mean this?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 11:12 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. Haw! This could carry the whole House!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 11:25 PM
Response to Reply #3
6. What whole house? John Edwards's house? Why the hell are we still talking about that?
Obviously all part of John Edwards's insideous plot to destroy the ozone layer with direct pollution attacks.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
ruiner4u Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 11:12 PM
Response to Original message
2. I admit I know nothing about areodynamics and stuff...
but how in the HECK can that thing fly with just prop's? lol.. Jeeeez id be scared to death to get into that thing...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 11:13 PM
Response to Reply #2
4. Very slowly. n/m
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
buddysmellgood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 11:22 PM
Response to Original message
5. I was in a Super Guppy. Not in flight, but toured the inside. Very cool. GPS
was pretty new at the time. The crew had taken an off-the-shelf unit and mounted it in the cockpit. It was useful for location, but also amusing since the little car on the screen of their unit traveled at more than 100mph on the display's city street map.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 11:27 PM
Response to Reply #5
7. Is the fuselage area just like a big open warehouse?
Seriously, it looks like you could hold an indoor football game in that cargo bay.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
TheMadMonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-09-07 12:16 AM
Response to Reply #7
8. Yup.
I have a vague recollection that the Super Guppy was built to move Saturn V boosters.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
buddysmellgood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-09-07 11:40 PM
Response to Reply #8
11. I think you're right. It was moving shuttle parts when I saw it.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
buddysmellgood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-09-07 11:39 PM
Response to Reply #7
10. Yes, and what's really strange is to stand in the bay and look up a story at the
door that leads to the cockpit. Very odd. Seeing it come in for a landing is more like watching a blimp land. It really looks like it should drop out of the sky.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-09-07 12:21 AM
Response to Original message
9. at its maximum altitude, i presume?
j/k.

dp
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Homer Wells Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-09-07 11:45 PM
Response to Original message
12. That is one Butt Ugly aircraft!!!
N/T:spray:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Tue Apr 30th 2024, 12:43 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC