Re: Dance, power lines, dance!

On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:21:46 +0000, Roger Burton West wrote:

Maarten Wiltink wrote:

In related news, the Dutch railways recently found out that if your
planned response to frozen switches is to dispatch a thawing team in a
van, you may need a backup plan in some circumstances.

GR3 Harrier. (Or anything with a Pegasus engine in it, really.)

Which reminds me, apparently the exhaust from the V-22 is too much for
the decks of the US Marines' helicopter-carriers - they weren't built to
have gas turbine blast thrown directly at them.

I saw a Harrier land at the local (Nashville, Tennessee, USA) airport a
few years ago. I was driving down a highway near the airport, and a
fighter plane approaching the airport caught my attention because it was
moving so slowly. It came to a complete stop in mid-air, then landed
slowly, straight down. I wasn't close enough to see details, but assumed
it must have been a Harrier. This is the only time that I have ever seen
one, as Nashville is about 500 miles from the seacoast, and thus doesn't
have any Marine bases nearby.

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