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Scott Vernon
 
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Default Farewell..... old friend.

Rays. You win.

SV

"Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote in message
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Just a small craft compared to the Saturn V!



"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
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I've been in the cockpit of a USAF C-5 Galaxy. ''the largest operational
aircraft in the free world''.
Now that's BIG!


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Scott Vernon
Plowville PA __/)__/)__

"John Cairns" wrote in message
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You know, when I went down south last February I changed planes at JFK
outbound and inbound and I saw one of the Air France planes sitting on

the
tarmac, I've only seen the thing in the air twice, it was incredible

how
graceful the thing looked compared to the other passenger jets in the
vicinity. I was also surprised to see how small it is.
John Cairns
"Donal" wrote in message
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Concorde had it's final commercial flight today.

For the last 27 years, I've watched her take off and land. Every

time
that
I have seen her, I have been impressed by her beauty. There is no

other
aircraft that looks so perfect in the air. There is no other

aircraft
that
conjures up the same sense of pure awe.


I've heard the sonic boom a couple of times. The French Concorde

used
to
fly north, and break the sound barrier over the English Channel.

Both
times
that I heard it, I was down below. It sounded like two very loud

hammer
blows on the hull in quick succession. Both times, I shot into the
cockpit, and was surprised to see a tiny aircraft at about 35,000

ft.




Regards

Donal
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