Geez, while you old guys were flying Jurassic jets I was still sucking my thumb and playing Nintendo.

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, A, B, B, A. (can you name the game)


Ftb, I've experienced the funbag restrictions. I was so excited when my wife gave birth and she grew two giant toys for daddy. Then junior had to hog the milk machines and the wifey was in so much pain that she set up a 30 mile no-fly zone around them.

Contra, but I believe it was A,B,A,B, select, select + start.

I remember unlimited lives for Contra being UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A, B, A, select, start. :o

Guys,

About how long after closing does it take to post AE results ? Thanks in advance.

On such a small bid as this one, probably only about 24-48 hours, depending on how well they check and re-check it, and of course how many people go with the equipment vs. displace into something completely differerent, which will cause the domino effect, which will take more checking.

Usually a day or two but this one might be a bit longer. They've already said in their memo that they are going to massage the numbers on this bid. They will look at the training visits that get generated and decide how much backfilling to do and whether to award all the slots in the new ATL Airbus categories.

Correct sir!

RIP Liberty Belle....
WWII bomber crashes near Aurora, all 7 aboard said to be OK - Chicago Breaking News


WWII bomber crashes near Aurora, all 7 aboard said to be OK
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World War II bomber burns after crashing near Aurora. (WGN-TV)

By Gerry Smith, Cynthia Dizikes and Carlos Sadovi
Tribune reporters
11:01 a.m. CDT, June 13, 2011

A vintage World War II bomber crashed and burned in a field southeast of Aurora Municipal Airport this morning, but the seven people on board escaped without injury, according to aviation officials.

The plane, a B-17 known as a "Flying Fortress," took off from the airport at 9:30 a.m. and went down about three or four miles from Aurora about 20 minutes later, according to Elizabeth Isham Cory, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration. "The plane is burning. We believe the seven people on board escaped without injury."


PHOTO: World War II bomber crashes near Aurora

The pilot made an emergency landing in a cornfield near Highway 71 and Minkler Road in Oswego after reporting an engine fire, according to Sugar Grove Fire Chief Marty Kunkle. Fire Departments from Oswego, Sugar Grove and Plainfield on the scene.

Drew Mundsinger and his son were driving back to their home after dropping off other children at school when they saw the plane flying low overhead. A smaller plane was flying with the B-17.

Mundsinger he knew the plane was in the area providing rides and didn't think much of it. When they came close to their home, they saw large plumes of dark smoke filling the air and at first thought it was someone burning leaves.

Then he and his son realized one of the planes had crashed. By the time he reached his home, he saw the plane burning in a cornfield about 500 yards behind his home.

"When we first came here, it looked like nothing could survive that," Mundsinger said. "It looked to be right by my subdivision so I got worried. The scary thing is, it was heading right at our house.

“It made my heart race up a beat," he added. "I can clearly look straight out at it.”

Gene Sheeley was loading groceries into his car outside a Jewel store when he heard a plane flying overhead. Looking up, Sheeley said he noticed the bomber was gliding extremely low over the intersection of Orchard Road and Illinois Route 71 in Oswego.

“I thought this puppy is flying low, but I didn’t realize it was going to crash,” Sheeley said.

But moments later Sheeley, 72, saw a large plume of black smoke rising into the clear blue sky. “The first thing that came to my mind was did anybody get hurt,” Sheeley said.

The plane was manufactured in 1944 and is registered to the Liberty Foundation in Miami, Fla., Cory said. She believed the plane was the "Liberty Belle," which has been restored by the foundation. The plane was at the Aurora Municipal Airport on Saturday and Sunday, according to the foundation's website.

The "Liberty Belle" was sold on June 25, 1947 as scrap to Esperado Mining Co. of Altus, Okla. and was sold again later that year to Pratt & Whitney for $2,700, according to the foundation's website.

Whitney operated the B-17 from Nov. 19, 1947 to 1967 to test turboprop engines. It was donated in the late 1960s to the Connecticut Aeronautical Historic Association in East Hartford, but was heavily damaged in 1979 when a tornado threw another aircraft against the B-17’s mid-section, breaking the fuselage, the foundation said.

It was stored in the New England Air Museum in Connecticut until the foundation began restoring it.

Wow.. you sit reserve in another city and buy hotel rooms? You must be in downtown Detroit then.. In NY, there is absolutely no cotton pickin way you could sit reserve without a crashpad. If you can, you probably aren't complaining about our pay....

Hey... that was post #68000.....

Looks like ATL 330 will do CDG:

Winter Schedule is back up to twice daily DAL service
DL028 ATL CDG 767
AF681 ATL CDG 777
DL022 ATL CDG 333

AF682 CDG ATL 777
DL021 CDG ATL 333
DL029 CDG ATL 767

Cheers
George