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Prototype Harrier. 
The report said they found cracks in the wing when it landed at another airport. So they stripped the engines and took out some electronic gear to lighten it up, then helo'd it across the Cascades to its home base @ Kingsley Field. This was back in 97 when they were still training pilots on F16's. Now they train on F-15's like the first pic.
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7/9/13, 09:13 PM
7/9/13, 09:21 PM
Seriously? He's also the dentist (Dr. Whatley) in Seinfeld.
Seinfeld - Jerry at the dentist - YouTube
Seinfeld - Jerry at the dentist - YouTube
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I wonder if the couplings are designed so the cars accordian or if that was just random.
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7/10/13, 01:46 PM
I had read that they normally keep one engine running for the brakes and that the engineer had done that before heading for his hotel. Hadn't heard about the small fire though. It was a couple of hours after the engineer left that the train broke lose IIRC so someone shutting the engine down later makes sense.
I wonder if the couplings are designed so the cars accordian or if that was just random.
I wonder if the couplings are designed so the cars accordian or if that was just random.
A few hours before the crash, the same train caught fire in a nearby town, and the engine was shut down — standard operating procedure dictated by the train's owners, Nantes Fire Chief Patrick Lambert said.
Train company chief Burkhardt suggested that shutting off the locomotive to put out the fire might have disabled the brakes.
"The train had the engine shut down by the firemen, they didn't do that for malicious purposes by it's what happens," Burkhardt told reporters at the Montreal airport. "The firemen should have roused the locomotive engineer who was in his hotel and taken him to the scene with them. But it's easy to say what should have happened. We're dealing with what happened."
Lambert defended the fire department, saying that the blaze was extinguished within about 45 minutes and that's when firefighters' involvement ended.
"The people from MMA told us, 'That's great — the train is secure, there's no more fire, there's nothing anymore, there's no more danger,'" Lambert said. "We were given our leave, and we left."
Train company chief Burkhardt suggested that shutting off the locomotive to put out the fire might have disabled the brakes.
"The train had the engine shut down by the firemen, they didn't do that for malicious purposes by it's what happens," Burkhardt told reporters at the Montreal airport. "The firemen should have roused the locomotive engineer who was in his hotel and taken him to the scene with them. But it's easy to say what should have happened. We're dealing with what happened."
Lambert defended the fire department, saying that the blaze was extinguished within about 45 minutes and that's when firefighters' involvement ended.
"The people from MMA told us, 'That's great — the train is secure, there's no more fire, there's nothing anymore, there's no more danger,'" Lambert said. "We were given our leave, and we left."
