Your 200's should also be in MSP. 300's in MIA and then back to MSP for the 400's.

"Ed... you sure you're in the right place?"

When I got mine, I called crew scheduling and said, "I'm going to be sick for that trip next week."

He said, "Sick...next week? How do you know now, for a trip next week?"

Me, "Because I've got a Vasectomy scheduled the day beore the trip."

Him, "Ouch! Ok , no problem, take as much time as you need."

My next call was to the Chief Pilot. I told him I had just called in sick for the trip next week, and why. He said, "No problem, it usually takes about 3-4 days to recover, then you should be good to go."

I said, "I don't feel too good right now, just thinking about it, I might have to call in sick for tomorrow's trip!" He just laughed and said, "What ever it takes, come back when you feel better."

After the operation my Doctor said, "No heavy lifting for at least a week." I took that to mean, do not lift a 150,000lb. 727 off the ground for at least a week, so I sicked out of another trip, just to be sure.

I did feel like a horse had kicked me in the nutz for about a week afterwards, glad I was on the couch, not in a cockpit. By about 6 weeks later, it was functioning normally.

New Stratolaunch plane will take people into
 

New Stratolaunch plane will take people into Earth’s orbit

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is teaming up with aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan to build a giant machine that is part airplane and part spaceship. The new vehicle will be able to transport people and cargo into Earth's orbit and is schedule to be commercially available by 2016.

Unlike traditional rockets, the Stratolaunch will not require a launch pad for liftoff. Instead, the plane will ascend to a heightened elevation--and then the rocket portion of the craft will release from below and blast into space.
Powered by six 747 engines, the new craft should also be far more fuel efficient than traditional shuttle launches, since it will bypass the standard supply of expensive rocket fuel that ordinarily propels a shuttle from the ground up.

The craft will also be enormous, with a wingspan of 385 feet, larger than a football field, while weighing 1.2 million pounds.
And the Stratolaunch will not be restrained by the factors that normally dictate when a shuttle can launch into space from the ground.

Allen and Rutan are competing with other private companies in a race to deliver people and goods to the International Space Station, now that NASA has cancelled its space shuttle program.
The pair are teaming up with another Internet mogul, Elon Musk, founder of PayPal and Tesla, who is providing funds for the spaceship and booster components.

Allen is no stranger to space exploration, having already won the Ansari X Prize in 2004, for his sponsorship of a craft that went into space but not into orbit. If all goes to plan, the Stratolaunch program will be involved in satellite transport--while also promoting space tourism.

Oh Yea, would this be replacement ac or new growth??? just kidding....

Would someone please post a pic of some hot chicks? :D

Is it Friday already??

It's not hot chicks, but a bigggggg (six engines, six g's!) airplane, re. the Stratolaunch vehicle post from above, watch the video:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...aunch-venture?

I took a week and that was pushing it a little. I was hurting on my next trip. 'Course I usually am climbing into and out of the 73.

<====== Skirmish. :D

"I think so"

Nice, Cubdrick. You're the first person to get the name.

Thanks for posting the video Timbo.