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On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 23:53:53 -0500, Califbill wrote:

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On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 19:50:02 -0400, BAR wrote:

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On Sat, 7 Jun 2014 22:12:19 -0400, BAR wrote:

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On Sat, 7 Jun 2014 12:34:46 -0700 (PDT), Tim
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On Saturday, June 7, 2014 10:09:31 AM UTC-7, BAR wrote:
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I'd like to have a MRAP. Like Jethro Bodine said. "Hey uncle Jed-
we could sure do some mighty tall huntin' and fishin' with this rig!"



I wouldn't want to pay the fuel bill for one. Five miles per gallon is

horrible mileage.

about like a semi truck....

They weigh 40,000 pounds. There are probably some little bridges in
the old parts of town (where they might be shot at) that will not
carry that on 2 axles.

If you can't tote it with a helicopter, the light fighting forces don't
want it.

I was wishing a helicopter would come by and pull my airplane out of
the tree. No such luck!

I was going to suggest that you get one of those R/C helicopters but, I
think you would just be putting so much hardware into the trees while
trying to retrieve the last thing you used to try and get the previous
thing out of the tree.


"I know an old lady who swallowed a fly" ?

Maybe I should put Henc on this. Design a drone that can rescue a
plane from a tree and not get stuck.


In my youth, when I flew U controls, I worked in a hobby shop part time.
One guy who flew RC told of having to climb a tall eucalyptus to retrieve
his plane. Was a telephone lineman, and had his climbing gear in the car.


If the line and sinker hadn't succeeded, my next idea was to drive the neighborhood and find some
tree cutters. Offer the guy $50 for a quick rescue. One of the other flyers had done that. You can
see the track and playground behind the school. Lots of things to hit - soccer goals, baseball
backstops, bleachers next to the track (which don't show up in the photo), basketball nets in the
parking lot, and, of course, the buildings and trees themselves.

Plug this into Google Maps:

Mark Twain Middle School, Franconia Road, Alexandria, VA