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**Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]**

gregvk wrote in
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"Maxwell" luv2^fly99@cox.^net wrote in
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"gregvk" wrote in message
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I didn't hear it from a film. I heard about it from some old guy
who
saw one land that way. The craft's hydraulics got damaged and
stopped working,
which made it impossible to drop the landing gear or to rotate the
ball turret (it had to be properly positioned in order for the
gunner
to open the little door and climb into the craft) so the gunner was
stuck in there and they had to belly land. I always thought the B-
17
had a manual override crank or something to rotate the ball turret
by
hand... But maybe
they didn't all have those, or it was also damaged (or maybe I'm
mistaken about the existence of a manual override).

Hey Bertie, your forgot to change your name back!!!

:0)

From my headers:

Path: auth.newsreader.octanews.com!newsreader.visi.com!n ews-
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not-
for-mail
Date: 05 Jun 2008 00:00:10 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: 04 Jun 2008 19:00:10 CDT
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From BtB's headers:

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indigo.octanews.net!news-out.octanews.net!mauve.octanews.net!
blackhelicopter.databasix.com!not-for-mail
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 00:56:08 +0000 (UTC)
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 00:56:08 +0000 (UTC)

...So not only did he change his name, he also paid for a second
service
provider, teleported himself across several timezones to use it, then
teleported back to use his first provider and post as himself again
from
his original location.
LOL

Well, I'm ****ed now, he and his buds have tracked me down...

Bertie