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    Testing the 500 MPH Rolls-Royce engines...

    As the re-powering program for the nearly 70 year old B-52 bomber advances, testing in pairs (as they will be used in flight) begins...It's unlikely I'll be here to see it, but I predict the BUFF will see it's 100th birthday in flight......Ben

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    I suspect my SIL's reaction to that will be---that's nice

    I know his current seat in the Boeing 787s is an entirely different world of creature comfort than his years in the B-52 offered. When his time in the seat ends---he goes upstairs to bed!

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    So, beds with seatbelts are in our future. One can assume it's mandatory policy they be utilized.

    Hunter
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    The "bed belts" are there to prevent exactly what happened on that Lufthansa flight this week.

    This is also a "co-ed" dormitory, as one might expect with mixed flight crews. The "median" seen there is akin to an Amish bundling board.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    Ahhh... yes, Coed dorms would be a situation where "participants" may be too interested in pleasure rather than safety. I picture several coital positions difficult to belt down.

    Hunt
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