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Offline Firegirl

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Re: Is this a real picture?
« Reply #15 on: May 06, 2006, 05:16:55 PM »
Well, I guess if I ever get my helo license (which I am planning on btw) I won't be doing any banner flying . . . ;)

I wonder when I'll see one of them flying around though. Did this become illegal or something?
"Cause I've never seen a banner tow with a helicopter in real life before...
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Offline Roland

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Re: Is this a real picture?
« Reply #16 on: May 07, 2006, 07:32:16 PM »
I don’t think it’s illegal but I know it’s expensive. ;D
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Offline fliboye

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Re: Is this a real picture?
« Reply #17 on: May 13, 2006, 05:55:30 PM »
looks real  would have scared me to death ;D


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Re: Is this a real picture?
« Reply #18 on: May 14, 2006, 03:49:22 PM »
Yeah, this ones real, I read about it a while back and if memory serves me right, it was being towed or pushed when the incident happened-- wasn't a flight accident.
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Offline chuckar101

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Re: Is this a real picture?
« Reply #19 on: May 14, 2006, 08:11:13 PM »
I'm guessing the linesman who was towing it got a nice long talking too.
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Offline Roland

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Re: Is this a real picture?
« Reply #20 on: May 15, 2006, 05:59:11 AM »
An invitement without sitting down for coffee. :-\
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Re: Is this a real picture?
« Reply #21 on: May 15, 2006, 01:54:30 PM »
rumor has it that the crew had finished working on the bird, hooked it up to the tow then went on break and the doofus on the tow forgot to set the brake and when they came back....voila!
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Offline C310RCaptian

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Re: Is this a real picture?
« Reply #22 on: May 15, 2006, 04:09:59 PM »
Yes that is a real picture and I know exactly where it is at. It is located at the Memphis international airport in TN. There is a couple of those concrete ditched that run around the place. I have actually parked at one with the tail of the Cessna 172 overhanging it. There have been quite a few incidents like that. That plane was coming out of Pinnacles maintenance hangar. Pinnacle Airlines (or Northwest Airlink as it is better known) is based there.
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Offline fliboye

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Re: Is this a real picture?
« Reply #23 on: May 15, 2006, 06:09:43 PM »
i know this one is real tooooo!!!!
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Offline fliboye

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Re: Is this a real picture?
« Reply #24 on: May 15, 2006, 06:11:26 PM »
as so eloquently put, another one of those freight dogs at 100' and a 1/4 mi    you can doo it

hehehehehehehe ::)
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Offline Plthijnx

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Re: Is this a real picture?
« Reply #25 on: May 15, 2006, 08:58:47 PM »
that's a doozie!
fuel truck???
yeah i can see it now "Um Yeah! just top 'er off and we'll be on our way!"
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Offline SkyKing

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Re: Is this a real picture?
« Reply #26 on: May 16, 2006, 04:50:17 PM »
Quote from: fliboye on May 13, 2006, 05:55:30 PM
looks real  would have scared me to death ;D


"Harold, she said to keep our seat belts fastened until we get to the terminal!!!!"

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Offline fliboye

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Re: Is this a real picture?
« Reply #27 on: May 17, 2006, 01:02:51 PM »
Departure time???????  oh no its a twister

we are in kansas toto and she is a wicked witch ;)
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Re: Is this a real picture?
« Reply #28 on: May 27, 2006, 04:10:44 AM »
The first picture: this is a fake. I found it awhile back on Snopes.com (here's the link). As a graphics artist, I suspected that it was a clever Photoshop job when I first saw it - there are numerous .jpg artifacts throughout the picture EXCEPT in the flame, plus the flame is not being reflected on the aircraft nor lighting the tarmac.

The last picture: this is not a tornado. Rather, this is a thundershower with a microburst and a developing wall cloud. This is not to say that it couldn't BECOME a thunderstorm...most wall clouds do have tornadic rotation. :o

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Offline Mike

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Re: Is this a real picture?
« Reply #29 on: May 27, 2006, 05:12:52 AM »
That's some cool info there, Thanks!

Hey guys!
How about a new "is this a real" picture?
Anybody got anything else??
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