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  • Paul Pless
    pinko commie tree hugger
    • Oct 2003
    • 124805

    Paris











    Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.
  • seanz
    Resilient?
    • Nov 2006
    • 23662

    #2
    Re: Paris

    She's single again and someone we know has travel plans?
    We don't know how lucky we are....

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    • purri
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2009
      • 12954

      #3
      Re: Paris

      Smegway lures KO?
      Xanthorrea

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      • seanz
        Resilient?
        • Nov 2006
        • 23662

        #4
        Re: Paris

        Originally posted by purri
        Smegway lures KO?
        And that's a thingy that smoothly takes us back or onto another thingy without being to obvious or jarring, narratively speaking.

        I really like the flying boat and surprisingly (to me) I rate it as cool as the rockets. Dunno what's come over me........
        We don't know how lucky we are....

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        • Paul Pless
          pinko commie tree hugger
          • Oct 2003
          • 124805

          #5
          Re: Paris

          Originally posted by seanz
          I really like the flying boat and surprisingly (to me) I rate it as cool as the rockets. Dunno what's come over me........
          just for you then

          Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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          • bamamick
            Senior Member
            • Nov 2003
            • 14774

            #6
            Re: Paris

            Mobile sent a delegation with the EADS folks to try and see if they could drum up some business for the city. I'm sure it was tough to get volunteers for that one.

            Mickey Lake
            'A disciple of the Norse god of aesthetically pleasing boats, Johan Anker'

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            • carioca1232001
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2003
              • 5142

              #7
              Re: Paris

              Originally posted by Paul Pless
              just for you then

              That Russian flying boat is quite amazing, with its jet engines and all.

              IĀ“ve seen some photographs of it landing and taking off in the water, as well as one where it wades through (unercarriage down) to finally crop up on the beach.

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              • Phillip Allen
                new member
                • May 2002
                • 63618

                #8
                Re: Paris

                Originally posted by Paul Pless
                just for you then

                Hey, Joe... Paul has your bilge pump!!!
                The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
                Personal failures are too important to be trusted to others.

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                • Paul Pless
                  pinko commie tree hugger
                  • Oct 2003
                  • 124805

                  #9
                  Re: Paris

                  Originally posted by carioca1232001
                  That Russian flying boat is quite amazing, with its jet engines and all.

                  IĀ“ve seen some photographs of it landing and taking off in the water, as well as one where it wades through (unercarriage down) to finally crop up on the beach.
                  I like the way it scoops its water payload - 12,000 pounds in fourteen seconds. The plane is also easily reconfigurable from firefighter to cargo to medi-vac to passenger.
                  Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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                  • Andrew Craig-Bennett
                    Who?
                    • Aug 1999
                    • 28484

                    #10
                    Re: Paris

                    Thanks Paul.
                    IMAGINES VEL NON FUERINT

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                    • carioca1232001
                      Senior Member
                      • Nov 2003
                      • 5142

                      #11
                      Re: Paris

                      Originally posted by Phillip Allen
                      Hey, Joe... Paul has your bilge pump!!!
                      Indeed !

                      12 thousand pounds scooped up in 14 seconds ? Mighty powerful suction pumps.

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                      • LeeG
                        Senior Member
                        • May 2002
                        • 72781

                        #12
                        Re: Paris

                        wow, more photos!

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                        • Paul Pless
                          pinko commie tree hugger
                          • Oct 2003
                          • 124805

                          #13
                          Re: Paris

                          Originally posted by carioca1232001
                          Mighty powerful suction pumps.
                          no pumps, it scoops it. . .

                          Seaplanes pick up water at Castelo de Bode Lagoon (Tomar, Portugal).
                          Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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                          • carioca1232001
                            Senior Member
                            • Nov 2003
                            • 5142

                            #14
                            Re: Paris

                            I hadnĀ“t thought about that !

                            I was in Tomar earlier this year and saw neither the lake nor that fancy flying boat, though I did see the castle that was wrestled from the Moors !

                            Thank you.

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                            • carioca1232001
                              Senior Member
                              • Nov 2003
                              • 5142

                              #15
                              Re: Paris

                              As an aside, it would seem that the pilots on that flying boat must be rather skilled to maintain proper attitude at all times while scooping, due to those two jet engines ready to scoop up too..... and flame out.

                              Do prop-engined airplanes create suction pressure anywhere as high as do jet-engined ones ? Several cases reported of ground staff being sucked in by jet-engined planes...
                              Last edited by carioca1232001; 06-23-2011, 08:45 AM.

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