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Old 05-31-2012, 12:36 PM
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Neat! Looks like the rear tail wings (I don't know the term) are in the lift position, pushing down on the tail and using the wheels as the fulcrum, and of course the wings giving lift helps too.

Too bad it's been done already
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You'd think doing that it'd punch holes through the tarmac O_o
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Old 05-31-2012, 12:59 PM
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Actually they just fit some low-rider hydraulics to it and started it bouncing, then slowed the video way down to make it look like the wind did it.
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Old 05-31-2012, 01:21 PM
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I just posted the video out of interest. Kinda poetic in a way :/ an airplane trying to fly free from being in a airliner graveyard kinda sad
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I just posted the video out of interest. Kinda poetic in a way :/ an airplane trying to fly free from being in a airliner graveyard kinda sad

Yes, I understand what you saw in it and that's why I thanked you for posting it. I enjoyed it.
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I just posted the video out of interest. Kinda poetic in a way :/ an airplane trying to fly free from being in a airliner graveyard kinda sad
well, being that i am almost as old as dirt, i remember when the 747 first started flying. and, yes, it's kind of sad to see one stuck in the boneyard.

also - off topic - sad to know that there are very probably no extant, unmodified, airworthy 377/stratocruisers remaining. time marches on.
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