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Offline Yeebsy

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« on: March 18, 2008, 08:33:31 PM »
Jeez this thing is big, god help us all if it ever goes down a bit quicker than it's designed to do. Anyway here is a 'fire service' vantage point for its first flight.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvR1Oe6CfoQ
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Isn't it funny, how if you sit in a library and scream, everyone looks at you and tuts...but do the same thing on an aircraft and everyone joins in!

Offline graham31

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« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2008, 09:14:09 PM »
this mite be a daft question but why was the fire engine spraying water on the plane?
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Offline Yeebsy

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« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2008, 10:17:56 PM »
It's just traditional, the fire service salute the first inaugural flight of a new aircraft or the last flight of a retiring pilot.
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« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2008, 10:47:58 PM »
dont know what the fuss is all about she's only a titch !
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« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2008, 11:28:19 PM »
Quote from: Clevelandfire
dont know what the fuss is all about she's only a titch !
Your right, this is the smallest one of this bread.
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Offline graham31

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« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2008, 09:01:16 PM »
now i know.

It's true what they say every days a school day
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Offline Wiz

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« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2008, 06:23:55 PM »
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It's just traditional, the fire service salute the first inaugural flight of a new aircraft or the last flight of a retiring pilot.
That's a disappointment. I thought the firemen had hit on another moneyspinner to supplement their meagre wages - An aeroplane wash!  In my imagination the film was just showing the initial part of the plane-wash process, and that actually just a bit down the tarmc there would have been dozens of firemen with soapy sponges standing on ladders at different heights! Shame.
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Offline Yeebsy

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« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2008, 12:13:24 AM »
Jeez wiz, shut up, the management might read this and implement it. :(
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« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2008, 04:43:21 PM »
It's not the spraying down which would be an issue with me, it's the leathering off afterwards!!!
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« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2008, 08:59:14 PM »
Don't think they make a chamois big enough. :0
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« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2008, 11:30:28 PM »
kill a few nearby cows it will be fine

Just makes sure they haven't got foot and mouth or BSE cos that may make the bird a bit tetchy in flight
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