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Old March 14th 08, 07:10 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Peter Hucker[_2_]
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On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:37:44 +1000, Mike Mackenzie
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Chris Roy-Smith wrote:

A nice photo of this craft can be found at

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/open.fi...0320209&size=L

It made it a bit more obvious why the body is so deep.
I winder if the duct made anything better.......


Here's a couple more shots of it from different angles, which I took
at Toowoomba a few years ago. Apparently they flew it once, briefly,
but it was so unstable nobody wanted to try again.


There is a special warning sign for them.
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This message has been brought to you by nuclear power. Please don't tell the neighbours.
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Some believe that the world converting to the metric system would greatly simplify our measures. But look what would really happen to our old cliches:

A miss is as good as 1.6 kilometers.
Put your best 0.3 of a meter forward.
Spare the 5.03 meters and spoil the child.
Twenty-eight grams of prevention is worth 453 grams of cure.
Give a man 2.5 centimeters and he'll take 1.6 kilometers.
Peter Piper picked 8.8 liters of pickled peppers.

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