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Monday Train Blogging: Bigger Than Big Boy | 40 comments (40 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Monday Train Blogging: Bigger Than Big Boy (none / 1)

Bah!!!!

To understand my outrage - has anyone seen Flight of the Phoenix (the original, not the crappy remake)? Do you recall the scene when the pilots (James Stewart & Richard Attemborough) learn what kind of planes the German engineer (played by Hardy Krüger) really designed, and confront him on that? Especially Hardy Krüger's facial expression?

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Dec 5th, 2005 at 05:12:15 PM EST
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Re: Monday Train Blogging: Bigger Than Big Boy (none / 0)

I remember the scene, but not the German's facial expression.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Dec 5th, 2005 at 05:19:22 PM EST
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I'm only paraphrasing from memory,

"Toy planes?..."

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Dec 5th, 2005 at 05:31:28 PM EST
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Which only goes to show that Attenborough's and Stewart's characters had never heard of Reynold's number.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Dec 5th, 2005 at 05:33:51 PM EST
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Speaking of which, what is the equivalent of Reynold's number for train engines?

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Dec 5th, 2005 at 05:42:52 PM EST
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Hm... maybe the adhesion ratio.

(Or did you have something funny in mind?)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Dec 5th, 2005 at 05:53:22 PM EST
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The derailment coefficients also might fit the bill.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Dec 5th, 2005 at 05:54:59 PM EST
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Re: Monday Train Blogging: Bigger Than Big Boy (none / 0)

I think my brain is turning to goo. Is that what you had in mind?

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Dec 5th, 2005 at 05:55:53 PM EST
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I don't know what is in my mind anymore...

...I think I best say good night :-)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Dec 5th, 2005 at 05:57:34 PM EST
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Re: Monday Train Blogging: Bigger Than Big Boy (4.00 / 2)

Here. I saw that. Krueger's expression too. I am an airplane model builder myself (not the flying stuff but a solid model plane). My experience tells me only the model builders know what it all takes to build a whole plane. Balance, power, finishing...

I will become a patissier, God willing.

by tuasfait on Tue Dec 6th, 2005 at 04:00:27 AM EST
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I wonder if Hardy Krüger even knows what a star this scene made him in some quarters... :-)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Dec 6th, 2005 at 07:06:18 AM EST
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_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Dec 6th, 2005 at 02:52:40 PM EST
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Names and faces - a bit funny that poster, aint' it?...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Dec 6th, 2005 at 02:53:50 PM EST
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