Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rogwar on August 13, 2002, 08:30:48 PM
-
I flew late last year from Santiago, Chile back to DFW on the last flight of one of their MD-11s before it was retired from service. Several months later I saw them all setting out at Mojave when I was over at US Borax (a Borax mine in Boron, CA). It was actually a little moving because I had flown in those MD-11s all over the world. However, I'll take the Triple-7 anyday :)
Apparently Fedex bought them. Anyway, you may have seen this clip but it is a link to a file on my personal web page area for your enjoyment.
http://home.attbi.com/~sheldo/Airplane.asf
Hope you enjoy it for the humor so don't worry about the technical details.
Also, several years back I saw this event at St. Marteen although these are not my pics. It's pretty wild though.
http://home.attbi.com/~sheldo/St._Marteen-Eng_1.pps
Have fun!
Rogwar
-
ROFL!!!
"...there's only one Jeep..."
;)
-
I really liked the look on that fellas face :D
-
Great video! Thanks!
LOL
-
The effects for that film are pretty good!
As for St. Marteen, I'd had to overshoot that runway on a rainy day. The view from the cockpit was pretty impressive!
-
Both guys worked for Boeing here in Seattle, then they're careers took off after this film. They're working in Hollywood now. I saw a shorter version of this about 3 years ago via company email.
-
Originally posted by Ripsnort
Both guys worked for Boeing here in Seattle, then they're careers took off after this film. They're working in Hollywood now. I saw a shorter version of this about 3 years ago via company email.
I am surprised they didn't own BMWs as well :D
Bruce Branit is an Emmy nominated visual effects artist who has worked in film and television for six years. He has worked as a supervising animator on Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Other credits include Spawn, Devil's Advocate and visual effects supervisor of the TV movie G-Saviour. Bruce is originally from Kansas City.
Jeremy Hunt is a native of Southern California who has been working in the visual effects field for three years. He has worked as a supervising animator on The X-Files and the space battle sequence for the hit Backstreet Boys video "Larger Than Life." His other credits include Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Seven Days and G-Saviour. His first memory is seeing Star Wars at the age of three. Go figure.
Check out http://www.405themovie.com for more information as well as how they were able to achieve the effects.
Also...CHECK OUT THE HIGH RES VERSION OF THE MOVIE ON THEIR WEBSITE! :)
-
Okay, so it *was* urban legend ;)
Incidently I405 is the interstate here in Seattle.
-
That was the San Diego Fwy (405) in So. Cal. Ripsnort.
-
Rgr Tahgut. I emailed them to dispell the rumor, waiting for a reply...you know how rumors get started ;)
-
Originally posted by rogwar
I flew late last year from Santiago, Chile back to DFW on the last flight of one of their MD-11s before it was retired from service.
Small world Rogwar.. My wife works for American as a Flight Attendant. She has been working the Santiago run out of DFW for about 3 years now. You dont by any chance work for Ericsson do you?
-
Isn't that a DC-10? Didn't see winglets on it.
AKDejaVu
-
Originally posted by Krusher
Small world Rogwar.. My wife works for American as a Flight Attendant. She has been working the Santiago run out of DFW for about 3 years now. You dont by any chance work for Ericsson do you?
I work for Siemens in the mining and cement industries. She and I have likely been on the same plane. Last year I was doing a lot of Chile-Brazil trips together. I would typically start out DFW-MIA-GIG or GRU (Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo) for a week or two and then to Santiago on LanChile (nice airline), and then Santiago-DFW. In the last 3 years I have flown the Santiago-DFW route many times including once sick with a 103 to 104 fever, and another time with a substantial concussion...hehehe. Interesting story with that one :eek:
I knew better on the later. It happened before coming home and I didn't care much about going to the doctor. I even had blood coming from inside my ear. I remember getting home to DFW and picking up my truck, driving towards my doctor's office, while speaking with one of the nurses there via my cell phone. After hearing my symptoms, she said don't come here, go straight to the emergency room and tell them exactly what you told me.
Was shuffled in quickly by showing them my insurance card. Described my symptoms and told the doctor I had a slightly moderate concussion. Next was a CAT Scan on a Siemens machine no doubt...hehehe. Doctor comes back after 2 hours and says looks like you have a concussion. My co-pay was $50 for the emergency room visit but the overall bill was like close to $1,500. WOW!
Coming back with the strep infectionwas worse though. Didn't know exactly what it was at the time. I've had Typhoid and Dengue, neither of which are very fun.
Severe chills followed by sweats, but was able to get by with 600mg ibuprofen every couple of hours. Remember this flight is a long haul. Went to the doctor on my arrival the next day. My throat was killing me and I was really feverish. Could only see a nurse practicioner and she gave me a antibiotic shot and a scrip for some mediocre antibiotics, with the request to come back in 2 days.
It helped some and seemed to make a dent in the infection, but I had this weird big white spot and major swelling in the back of my throat. There was a lot of fluid and puss in there and it was really hurting. I should have waited to go to the doctor, but I knew what they would do. Send me to the emergency room to have this lanced. Having become tired of ERs I took one of my own sterile lances from a high quality first aid kit and lanced it myself. You also had to squeeze the area alot.
I have never seen so much fluid in my life. The size of the swollen area decreased significantly. I drank some hot limeade and took more ibuprofen and felt 100% better. I went to the doctor the next day, filled him in on everything. He advised against doing such a thing in the future on my own, but he agreed it was the right procedure.
Lancing sore, swollen, infected areas in ones own throat is really a milestone in life.
Santiago is a nice city. I also travel a lot up in the Atacama Desert region because of the copper mining. Here is a pic of yours truly standing on the Tropic of Capricorn just outside of Antostudmuffinasta, Chile. Driving across that desert is very hypnotic. We take turns driving about every hour.
-
One of the corporate trainers I work with has done a lot of work with Seimen's down in Chile. He works in Peru some also.
-
Originally posted by AKDejaVu
Isn't that a DC-10? Didn't see winglets on it.
AKDejaVu
That is correct. I was just refering to it as an MD-11 because it had the AA paint scheme and that was what AA was flying, as well as recently retired.
-
Rumor squashed:
> Did you guys work for Boeing at one time?
> Regards,
>
Reply:
Nope. Never did.
Jeremy
-
ROFL! that was fun!
-
Originally posted by midnight Target
One of the corporate trainers I work with has done a lot of work with Seimen's down in Chile. He works in Peru some also.
Cool. I wonder which part? Siemens is such a huge company with many divisions. I am getting a little tired of...you vill do it zis vay, da Ziemens vay...after 9 years. The world travel is fun though.
I was in Peru last year on business and took about 4 days of vacation to go see Cuzco and Machu Pichu. I recommend it to anyone. One of the top 5 places I ever visited.