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Twist the throttle, tilt the horizon, and have a great time. What triples are all about...........

I like that a lot. As if the neighbors don't already have enough to say about me and my stuff!

Do you have any more information?

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Rotortech
Indianapolis
1974 S3

No, I don't, got the pics in an E mail.....

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Twist the throttle, tilt the horizon, and have a great time. What triples are all about...........

John's dream is a F-104 Starfighter body to put on a H1 - for the track, of course..........!

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"One day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." : anon.

Go be the Pilot you always wanted to be (LOL) !!!!! That thing rules !!!!!

You don't know how bad I wanted to be a pilot. My eyes were too bad, never got past AFFES. Even tried to sneak in the Marines, To be a aviation mechanic. If they only has Lasik back then........

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Twist the throttle, tilt the horizon, and have a great time. What triples are all about...........

Well then here you go JA !!! Took this picture last night while flying from Nagoya Japan to Detroit.That is Mount Fuji in the background !!! I didn't have my good camera with me,so I took it the picture with my I phone.That is the number 4 engine of the 747-400 that you are seeing on the wing !!! Depending on the weather,sometimes we fly right over Fuji !!!! This time we were a good ways away,and started out over the ocean tracks North of Tokyo which is rare !!!!

1974 Flying to Europe, Boarded a 747 at night, never flown on one before. Woke up as the sun was rising, a bit startled watching the wing "flap"...lol. I had no idea the wings flexed that much.

Not near as exciting as the flight into Russia, on a 50's/60's Russian jet liner. Flames shooting out the engines, and rolling (what looked like) into the grass at the end of the runway before we got off the ground. And the cords hanging out of the tires, as I looked back, disembarking. The cool thing was seeing the 2 Presidential jets at the airport, Nixon was there too!

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Twist the throttle, tilt the horizon, and have a great time. What triples are all about...........

Absolutely beautiful photograph, Barry. If you happen to have a higher resolution one, I'd love to get it by email. One of the things in life that really amazes me is this:

I know it's not the highest take-off weight today, but over 7/8 of a million pounds is a whole bunch to hang on those two flapping wings.

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

Our Max takeoff weight is 875,000 and I have taken off many times at max gross weight !!!!!! Last night we were 863,000 lbs takeoff weight,Flaps 20,full power takeoff(some times we derate,or take off at a lower power setting ),11:36 minutes in route with 376 passengers !!!!! The 747-400 is a beautiful airplane.I am very lucky to be able to fly it !!!!! Still the 747-400 is nothing compared to JA's rolling jet in the beginning of this Post !!!!!!!