Bucking Bar

ring . ring .

LA FSDO: Hello Los Angeles District Office, Certification Officer of the day.
Rolf Gumpschecks: Hello, this is Rolf Gumpschecks
LA FSDO: Rolf Gumps, who?
Rolf Gumpschecks: I'm President of Stabilator Innovations and we've developed a way to make a MD80 40% more efficient by extending the jet pipe and fitting new bearings to the main landing gear. We tested it using a SkyMarks model affixed my partner's mother's treadmill in a controlled environment.
LA FSDO: You mean, her basement?
Rolf Gumpschecks: We prefer to refer to her treadmill as the advanced motion simulator.
LA FSDO: You're putting this on a Douglas product, right?
Rolf Gumpschecks: Yes
LA FSDO: Then go ahead. What could it hurt? This is like a turbine powered DC-3 and you should see the way they fly those in Puerto Rico.
Rolf Gumpschecks: That's what we were thinking. So we have approval?
LA FSDO: Whatever. It's Friday and it's 2pm. I don't even know why I answered the phone. You know Mr. Gumpschecks ... this is how Douglas got that thing Certified back in the day, always Friday, always 2PM. I'm sure you got a bright future ahead of you.

Bucking Bar

Instead of stealing Delta's saying, shouldn't Douglas have used something dealing with Newton's Second Law. Like "Let Pratts Big Engines accelerate your mass to a moderatel velocity ... ride Douglas jets. or Pratt + Douglas=M*V

Somehow "fly" just seems like an insult to Penguins and Ostriches.

Bucking Bar

Even I must admit. I would like to see this in DAL Colors.

Anyone know what a "CG Management System" is?

forgot to bid

Smart ass.

Who had that saying first btw? We didn't steal it did we? Or was it just a normal saying at the time? And it still works todY, try this:

forgot to bid

You know there are a lot of mods on King Airs. They're well designed but mods just make them even better... or mask the obnoxiousness of a PT-6.

Bucking Bar

Did you see the numbers on the MD90? It appears that airplane would better justify the cost of the kit and 6% is a pretty big number, if that works out on the stage lengths we fly them.

buzzpat

Actually, zero. Mid-Late 90's at the earliest and as recent as 2010. 100 more on the way! Step up to the Fluff. Dig it.

DAL 88 Driver

The only airplane that, after takeoff, the controllers say, "nice punt, Delta!"

FrankCobretti

Hey now, I've been all over America with a PT-6 with no problems at all. That is one well made engine!

flyBanana

I wondered about that too, so I looked into it… Japanese papers are reporting that FO had 2,400 hrs, and CA had 16,500 hrs. That seems more believable. I think it was translation error