President Bush flies to Iraq...

[Airliner]

If anyone saw the USA Today on Wednesday, there was a funny picture of "Dubya" in the cockpit of Air Force One - he looked like a kid in
a candy shop! That's probably the one thing about being President of the U.S. that would appeal to me, tooling around in that monster
plane.

Anyway, I wonder if they flew in blacked out again. I also hope someone passed on that Iraq is in the dangerous area list!

[Joeflyer]

"W" use to fly the F-102 fighter(I think that's the right one) in the National Guard, so flying that big beast would be a snore for him

[jetBlue220]

Haha, I saw that picture of him in the cockpit.. It looked like it was the first time he was ever in there, and looking around at all the instruments
and stuff, lol.

[Valoran]

I believe they were executing a difficult spiraling decent into Baghdad Int'l. If you look at his eyes, he's looking forward out of the plane. I'd
have about the same look on my face too if I were spiraling into an airport because somebody down there might shoot at me.

[Airliner]

So, I guess the next question would be:

If a 747 is executing a spiraling descent and someone is walking up the spiral staircase in the opposite direction, are they really moving?





DREW!!!!

[Airliner]

Which reminds me, I saw Air Force One (the movie) again last week. GOOD flick! I suppose he could have parachuted out the back - In
the dark? Yikes!

Best line of that movie:

"GET OFF MY PLANE!"

[Drew]

dont go there Airliner, walk slowly away from the pc..........................

There was a q like, if you were in a falling elevator, and you jumped just before it hit the bottom, would you survive? (i know the answer to
this btw)

[Airliner]

When I was younger, I used to picture driving a car off a cliff (why, I don't know). Anyway, I used to think I could climb out of the car (battling
gravity AND momentum at this point mind you!) and kick off the back just before hitting the ground, to minimize the impact. Yeah! Okay!

Of course, I also used to put my fingers in my eyes and stare at the sun on long car trips until I swear I could discern the corona! Yeah,
I'm kind messed up.

[Drew]

i heard - via myth busters, that if you jump in a lift (elevator) when its about to hit floor, 1stly you will headbutt the roof, and kill yourself, and
then when it hits the ground, you will land like a sack of potatoes

conclusion, dont jump, just hope you only get a 'few' broken legs on impact

[WBHoenig]

Airliner wrote:
Which reminds me, I saw Air Force One (the movie) again last week. GOOD flick! I suppose he could have parachuted out the back - In
the dark? Yikes!

Best line of that movie:

"GET OFF MY PLANE!"

That's such a good movie!

But of course w refused to stay more than four hours...

[fruitfly]

Medieval castle builders wound spiral stairways up into turrets always twining them clockwise so ascending, right-handed attackers
would be at a disadvantage against right-handed defenders.

Is that the case with AF1? Did they think of that? (Not that someone would try to Hi Jack the plane using spears and halberds- but
still......???)

[CowlFlapsOpen]

saw the same mythbusters. you beat me to it.

[WBHoenig]

lol I forgot about that