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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

ORIGINAL: Historiker

Flights confirmed. USA, here I come! [&o]

ah, another curious seeker of American fine quisine.....

Day 1: McDonalds
Day 2: Burger King
Day 3: Wendys
Day 4: Jack in the Box
Day 5: Carls Jr.
Day 6: Taco Bell
Day 7: KFC

Would you like a Pabst to wash that down? [:D]

Dude...

You totally forgot:

White Castle
Hardees
Chipotle
Panera
Long John Silver's
Denny's
Perkins
Marie Calendar's
Pizza Hut
Domino's
Subway
Quiznos

Furthermore, for our international visitors, it's only fitting that they have breakfast at the International House of Pancakes!

ETA: SLR. I stepped in a log!

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Adam Greenberg with a heartlifting at bat for the Miami Marlins. I still think the pitcher shoulda 'brushed him back'. [:D]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

[8D]



Thinkin' of In-N-out UNP. [&o]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Oh well. Do you chaps have anything you'd like to see from the BBMF winter maintenance? Several of the fighters have had their front ends stripped ready for ground runs. The Hurricane in particular has a lot of panels removed up to the side of the cockpit. The Spit XIXs look bloody weird without their cowlings.

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Oh well. Do you chaps have anything you'd like to see from the BBMF winter maintenance? Several of the fighters have had their front ends stripped ready for ground runs. The Hurricane in particular has a lot of panels removed up to the side of the cockpit. The Spit XIXs look bloody weird without their cowlings.

Why would they do all that, Dix? Seems as though stripping them (instead of covering them or moving them into a hangar) would be unnecessarily cumbersome.

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Oh well. Do you chaps have anything you'd like to see from the BBMF winter maintenance? Several of the fighters have had their front ends stripped ready for ground runs. The Hurricane in particular has a lot of panels removed up to the side of the cockpit. The Spit XIXs look bloody weird without their cowlings.

Why would they do all that, Dix? Seems as though stripping them (instead of covering them or moving them into a hangar) would be unnecessarily cumbersome.

They're in the hangar, it's one of the perks of this job. I get to work inside all year round [:D]

They get stripped (the panels taken off) to make various inspections easier. Control runs and pipework need to be checked so the more bits we can take off the easier it is to see them. The engine cowlings get taken off and the engines cleaned so that we can do a ground run and discover any leaks that we don't know about. Whilst we could do the inspects with the panels on, we'd be relying on boroscopes and other viewing aids. With the Hurricane you can see every control run from nose to tail easily, it's a bit trickier on the Spitfire though.

The paperwork for P7 is getting on for two inches thick, around 200 pages (of very small writing) worth of tasks. That paperwork just tells us what we need to do, we've then got shelves of books that tell us how we do those tasks. An interesting little fact is that several of the parts books for the MkXIX Spits are in Swedish.
[:D]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Haven't got any pictures just yet. I'll be taking some shots of things that I find interesting, I was just wondering if anyone had any particular requests.

ORIGINAL: Historiker

Anyone here who could Photoshop a picture of me to 600x600 in a way that it fits for the greencard lottery? [8D]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

The paperwork for P7 is getting on for two inches thick, around 200 pages (of very small writing) worth of tasks. That paperwork just tells us what we need to do, we've then got shelves of books that tell us how we do those tasks. An interesting little fact is that several of the parts books for the MkXIX Spits are in Swedish.
[:D]