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Originally Posted by LeineLodge (Post 1532844)

We will finally leave the 1960's here on January 7th, after the last flight.

Nah, we still have the Delta IT department. ;)

Carl

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Originally Posted by Carl Spackler (Post 1532050)

I got my FE ticket on the DC-8:

http://www.mrprophead.com/MilAir/dc8FE.jpg

Bar is just jealous of that pure Douglas engineering awesomeness!

Carl

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Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 1532763)

I can understand all the gauges and switches, but why is the noose colored green?

It's not a noose. They don't use a hangin' rope anymore, this is obviously a 1950s lethal injection machine and that hose is a part of the intravenous injection tube.

Those handles at the bottom are used to release sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide and then potassium choloride in that order (according to wikipedia). Note the Californian Communist blue color of the whole machine. It's obviously a death trap.

The neat thing is that whoever invented this death trap also used the crossfeed switches from the MD-88.

Just as a reminder to all, this is the biannual Douglas appreciation month.

I'll start.

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviatio.../0/1339024.jpg

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Tsquare preparing his rebuttal to Carl. :D

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Originally Posted by Hillbilly (Post 1532779)

Interesting. I went to that site (US Dept of Health and Human Services) and it had a section specifically about HIPAA and how it relates to your employer asking you for a doctor's note. Here's what it says:

"Requests from your employer

The Privacy Rule does not prevent your supervisor, human resources worker or others from asking you for a doctor’s note or other information about your health if your employer needs the information to administer sick leave, workers’ compensation, wellness programs, or health insurance.

However, if your employer asks your health care provider directly for information about you, your provider cannot disclose the information in response without your authorization.

Covered health care providers must have your authorization to disclose this information to your employer, unless other laws require them to disclose it.

Generally, the Privacy Rule applies to disclosures made by your health care provider, not to the questions of your employer."

I'm no rocket scientist, but after reading that and some additional information on HIPAA, it sounds like the only way any of this would ever remotely even get close to a HIPAA violation would be if Delta went to my doctor directly and asked for my medical information and in turn my doctor gave that information, VFR direct, to Delta without first getting my permission. I don't see anything that prevents a doctor from giving me my medical information that I am requesting from him nor anything that prevents me from giving that information to anyone. I'm am by no means a fan of our sick verification, but the cry of HIPAA violation seems to be baseless.

How many people are in the department of pilot leaves? A department sounds like a big group, but I thought it only has like 3 people.

Yeah, someone else pointed that earlier and I admit I was wrong about this being a violation. I guess I had read over and over how guys were having their privacy rights violated and I just assumed they were actually having their HIPAA violation. A little too quick to post I was. I know certain states will restrict the kind of questions an employer can ask but I really have no idea how that ties into our situation.

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Originally Posted by duder (Post 1532895)

Tsquare preparing his rebuttal to Carl. :D

Wonder if he's got a targeting system on that thing? :D

Carl

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1532867)

Biannual Douglas Appreciation Month Caption Contest:

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An early Douglas attempt at a Lifting Body design for NASA.

http://area51specialprojects.com/images/ecn2359.jpg

The X15 had explored the use of ceramic ablatives to protect the fuselage during hypersonic flight. Test pilots described later lifting body designs as having "flown like a turd" and having descended like "a 15 pound cow patty out the back of a long legged camel." Douglas already had a ceramic container for turds and in typical fashion sought a derivative solution. As with all Douglas design, you start with what you already have and design a fix.

Eventually Douglas figured out that "flys like a turd" was not a design requirement, or even desired by the operator. Having milked a government contract for $15,000,000,0000,0000 plus cost over-runs the design was sold for $25 and a sleeve of Biscoff Cookies to a gentleman who remarketed the ablative water injection system with boudary layer airflow control as a turd cleaning toilet seat for overweight geriatrics.