Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[mikeoso]

Yes. Pretty cool. Double deck, autos over tracks.

longest in the world!

 

[GonePlaid]

longest in the world!

And over 90 years old. Pretty amazing structure.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

When I worked for FedEx I got to jump seat on a few pretty big cargo planes, MD-11s and L-1011s, many of which had a couple of rows of seats behind the cabin. On my flight from Oakland to Hawaii it was just the two pilots and me, I got to sit up front coming into Diamond Head, and there was a futon in the back to crash on. Good times.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Like this? Out my former office window, Shuttle Discovery on final approach to it's final resting place at the Smithsonian/Udvar Hazy Air and Space museum at Dulles Airport (IAD).

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It's an amazing achievement, something that we'll never see again. Unfortunately Boeing has decided to stop making the 747. Four engine commercial aircraft have given way to two engine ones and fleets are being retired all over the world.

 

[notJaco]

It's an amazing achievement, something that we'll never see again. Unfortunately Boeing has decided to stop making the 747. Four engine commercial aircraft have given way to two engine ones and fleets are being retired all over the world.

That means that we can each pick one up pretty cheap now, eh? I love to tinker.

 

[mikeoso]

That means that we can each pick one up pretty cheap now, eh? I love to tinker.

Can I have one to make a fort?

 

[mikeoso]

WTFrack, over?
Spent yesterday afternoon on the garage floor, removing, rebuilding, reinstalling a mower deck. This morning my knee feels like there's a chunk of rebar stuck through it.
Getting old isnt for wimps.

 

[Charlie Tango]

WTFrack, over?
Spent yesterday afternoon on the garage floor, removing, rebuilding, reinstalling a mower deck. This morning my knee feels like there's a chunk of rebar stuck through it.
Getting old isnt for wimps.

Very nearly an exact quote of what my father used to say. He said getting old ain't for sissies.

 

[notJaco]

Can I have one to make a fort?

I'm thinking on having it to take friends out for ice cream... in Fiji

 

[beans-on-toast]

When I was a kid, a farmer used to have a large aircraft body, wings removed, in his field. He used it as a storage shed. Selling decommissioned aircraft is big business. Movie companies are one customer. In one case I was told that it was cheaper to buy a real plane and blow it up than it was to do CGI.

At one time Goodyear made more than just tires. Unfortunately, helicopters were their downfall. Today we have ultralights.

 

[GonePlaid]

WTFrack, over?
Spent yesterday afternoon on the garage floor, removing, rebuilding, reinstalling a mower deck. This morning my knee feels like there's a chunk of rebar stuck through it.
Getting old isnt for wimps.

Kneeling pad

 

[mikeoso]

Kneeling pad
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Wasnt the hard floor...was the getting up and down.

 

[GonePlaid]

Wasnt the hard floor...was the getting up and down.

I'm hip(those hurt too).

 

[ahc]

I'm hip.

Ain't all we all?

 

[Passinwind]

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A three hour tour...sweet!

 

[GwenOnBass]

A three hour tour...sweet!

You have to say it twice, it's important.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

I see we're all in fine form this Saturday morning.

 

[GonePlaid]

I see we're all in fine form this Saturday morning.

AFA your retirement, very few people have passed away saying "jeez, I wish I'd worked longer."

 

[Passinwind]

You have to say it twice, it's important.

Sweet, sweet!

 

[GonePlaid]

Sweet, sweet!