jerwin
November 27, 2013, 8:06pm
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How far can you fly on $177?
Raybert
November 27, 2013, 8:15pm
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Paraphrased from memory:
Raybert
November 27, 2013, 8:23pm
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Yep, the Bear is a noisy bugger.
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That was the $354 round trip ticket price cut in half. $354 round trip tickets will get you almost anywhere in the country if you book them early enough.
That figure was an average of all tickets though, so First Class will drive up the price the same way cheap commuter flights will drive it down.
daneel
November 27, 2013, 10:35pm
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I like the contra rotating props on the Fairey Gannet. That’s a plane only its mother could find attractive.
The Fairey Gannet was a British carrier-borne aircraft of the post-Second World War era developed for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA) by the Fairey Aviation Company. It was a mid-wing monoplane with a tricycle undercarriage and a crew of three, and a double turboprop engine driving two contra-rotating propellers. The Gannet was originally developed to meet the FAA's dual-role anti-submarine warfare and strike requirement. It was later adapted for operations as an electronic countermeasures a...
I really like the Kamov Helicopters with contra rotating rotors instead of tail rotors.
The Kamov Ka-50 "Black Shark" (Russian: Чёрная акула, translit. Chornaya Akula, NATO reporting name: Hokum A) is a single-seat Russian attack helicopter with the distinctive coaxial rotor system of the Kamov design bureau. It was designed in the 1980s and adopted for service in the Russian army in 1995. It is manufactured by the Progress company in Arsenyev. It is used as a heavily armed scout helicopter. It is the world's first operational helicopter with a rescue ejection system. During the lat...
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