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Bicycle Bill
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This Is Your Captain Speaking

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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?

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Four engines, wing-tip thingies - gotta be an Airbus 380. ??

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ex-khobar Andy wrote:
Tue Aug 03, 2021 1:32 pm
Four engines, wing-tip thingies - gotta be an Airbus 380. ??
747-400. Smooth leading edge on the wing, Airbus have humps above the pylons.
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Yes. I did not recall 747s having the winglets but I didn't know (until I looked it up) that they were a later addition to the -400 version, as you say.

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Yup, and I used to know the guy who made the engine inlets, in one piece, on a big multi-ton stretch press. Sounds easy, but it is a bit of an art not to stretch them too thin in any area. I had not thought of Kip for many years, until we were visiting NASA in Houston a few weeks ago. There, I could reach out and touch Kip's handiwork on one of two 747s that were used to transport the space shuttles. It had a shuttle mock-up mounted on it.
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