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    Boeing C-17 Fuselage Trucked Through Long Beach Streets In Dead Of Night

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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    07/22/09

    In reply to Boeing C-17 Fuselage Trucked Through Long Beach Streets In Dead Of Night

    Pfft, I'm surprised no one has made the comment that Long Beach is pretty well accustomed to having oversized planes trucked through it.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    07/22/09

    @Skunky: Spruce Goose FTW!
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    07/22/09

    @Skunky: Check Formerly's comment at 9:58am..
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    Image of Mekkon Mekkon
    07/22/09

    In reply to Boeing C-17 Fuselage Trucked Through Long Beach Streets In Dead Of Night
    C'mon now. Is this is going to Va just for training - practice loading and unloading - wouldn't it be cheaper to just build a perfect full size model in place, rather than waste an actual fuselage AND ship it across the country? A LOT cheaper?

    Argh.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    07/22/09

    @Mekkon: I doubt it. And, as mentioned in previous comments, it's apparently an already-used-up-by-stress-testing fuselage anyway.
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    Image of f86sabre f86sabre
    07/22/09

    @beercheck - Commentin' Dirty:

    That and they are using an Army Logistics vessel too. Might be one of those deals where they are using it as a training exersize for the crew too. Kind of like where they will fly a bomber to fly over a football game becuase they would have been out flying a training navigation mission anyway.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    07/22/09

    @f86sabre: Or Air Force One over Manhatten..
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    07/22/09

    In reply to Boeing C-17 Fuselage Trucked Through Long Beach Streets In Dead Of Night
    This entire exercise was done with the express intent of giving the Wiener Mobile an inferiority complex. Tomorrow night Pfizer will close down PCH to transport the world's largest Viagra tablet...
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    07/22/09

    @Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: Way to kick the Wiener Mobile while it's down, Boeing. It's already been shamed in the press for an "unintended entry".
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    07/22/09

    In reply to Boeing C-17 Fuselage Trucked Through Long Beach Streets In Dead Of Night
    They're going to be pissed when they realize they forgot the wings.
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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    07/22/09

    In reply to Boeing C-17 Fuselage Trucked Through Long Beach Streets In Dead Of Night
    QOTD: What's your favorite car to drive on the PCH?
    Answer: not this one.
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    Image of Joshuman Joshuman
    07/22/09

    In reply to Boeing C-17 Fuselage Trucked Through Long Beach Streets In Dead Of Night
    Here in the Pacific Northwest we often see fuselages in transport on semi trailers. Boeing has a fleet of trailers that have a tail driver who sits below the cargo. He has little windows and everything. I looked for a photo but couldn't find one. Granted, the fuselages are not as large as the C-17 but it is still fun to see.
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    Image of Joshuman Joshuman
    07/22/09

    @joshman: I found a video of the truck anyway.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    07/22/09

    @joshman: Whoa, whoa, whoa. That thing on the back has a cab. I wonder if it has an engine too...
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    Image of Joshuman Joshuman
    07/22/09

    @Tomsk 1.1: No engine in the rear.
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    Image of citroën67 citroën67
    07/22/09

    In reply to Boeing C-17 Fuselage Trucked Through Long Beach Streets In Dead Of Night
    Seems like a long, out of the way trip just to get it to VA. Why didn't they just finish building it, and fly the damn thing?
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    Image of Powerlurker Powerlurker
    07/22/09

    @minardi67:

    Because shipping by boat is crazy dirt cheap compared to flying, road, or rail transport.
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    Image of Turboner Turboner
    07/22/09

    In reply to Boeing C-17 Fuselage Trucked Through Long Beach Streets In Dead Of Night
    The fuselage is my favorite sex position.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    07/22/09

    @Turboner: You sure you're not thinking of the fusillade?
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    Image of 413wedge 413wedge
    07/22/09

    In reply to Boeing C-17 Fuselage Trucked Through Long Beach Streets In Dead Of Night
    Fly Obamaair! Appears to be another stunt where feds and contractors burn cash like crack whores on crack just because they can.
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    Image of snarktastic snarktastic
    07/22/09

    @413wedge:
    Yeah, "Obamaair', because this just started happening in January. Nice troll.
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    Al Navarro promoted this comment Edited by snarktastic at 07/22/09 11:07 AM snarktastic was starred snarktastic was unstarred
    Image of Al Navarro Al Navarro
    07/23/09

    @snarktastic:
    [OMBUDSMAN NOTE: For future notice, a good example of the sort of comments to not distinguish with a reply.]
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    Image of f86sabre f86sabre
    07/22/09

    In reply to Boeing C-17 Fuselage Trucked Through Long Beach Streets In Dead Of Night
    I’m guessing that this fuselage was a static or fatigue test article based on all the load points that are bolted to the exterior of the fuselage. If these tests are done then this fuselage would have been scrap anyway. Might as well use it for training and save an airworthy fuselage.

    Movement of large fuselage components by truck, bus and plane are not unusual at all. I’m not saying it isn’t cool, but it happens frequently.

    http://www.airliners.net/photo/Airbus-Industrie/Airbus-A380-800/0678343/L/

    http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled-(Airbus-Industrie)/Airbus-A380-800/0597884/L/

    http://www.airliners.net/photo/Airbus-Industrie/Airbus-A380-800/0545498/L/
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    tenbeers promoted this comment Edited by f86sabre at 07/22/09 10:29 AM f86sabre was starred f86sabre was unstarred
    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    07/22/09

    In reply to Boeing C-17 Fuselage Trucked Through Long Beach Streets In Dead Of Night
    This is your captain speaking. We have reached our cruising altitude of 7 feet. I have turned off the seatbelt sign, but please remain seated. It looks like we've got a tailwind, so we should be arriving at our destination a little ahead of schedule. Local time in Virginia at the time of our arrival should be next Thursday sometime. The weather at Ft. Lee is currently 79 degrees and fair, though that will likely change during our time in transit. The weather is expected to be 90 degrees and mostly sunny at the time of our arrival, but what are the odds that the national weather service knows what they are talking about that far in advance? We know that you had a choice in your rickety seaborne transcontinental flight, and would like to take this opportunity to thank you for flying with US Army Charters. Please enjoy the in-flight movie. Since we don't have a working entertainment system, we have David Spade on board to reenact Mariah Carey's blockbuster hit "Glitter"
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    07/22/09

    @smalleyxb122: Thank you for flying Planelopnik Airlines, we hope you enjoy your stay in Seal Beach, or if you live here, welcome home.

    Hope to see you again in the near future.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    07/22/09

    @smalleyxb122: Good one! And of course we Virginians will be waiting to greet the monster as it rolls into Ft. Lee.
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    Image of snarktastic snarktastic
    07/22/09

    In reply to Boeing C-17 Fuselage Trucked Through Long Beach Streets In Dead Of Night
    By the way, these planes are IMPRESSIVE as hell. I've seen them doing some nutty shit over Charleston, they are fat as hell, fast, huge, and apparently really maneuverable.
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    Image of HammSammich HammSammich
    07/22/09

    In reply to Boeing C-17 Fuselage Trucked Through Long Beach Streets In Dead Of Night
    We have just borne witness to the rise of the Nimitz Class Motorhome. I expect to see these closing down highways in Arizona and Florida very soon.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    07/22/09

    @HammSammich: I think you may be onto something there. The Airstream Nimitz.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    07/22/09

    In reply to Boeing C-17 Fuselage Trucked Through Long Beach Streets In Dead Of Night
    Well, now I know how I'm shipping the Jalopnik-brand brefass scotch to the COTD winner tonight.
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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    07/22/09

    @engineerd misses Uncle Pete: I was thinking that you probably had your hand in the planning of this operation.
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    Image of htrodblder htrodblder
    07/22/09

    In reply to Boeing C-17 Fuselage Trucked Through Long Beach Streets In Dead Of Night
    I see Boeing is offering planes as "kits" now
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