Pity they stopped flying it after the horrific crash many years ago. It might be seen as a major pollutant now a days.
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West Berlin as marked on a east German map from 1988.
Love the detail. They really knew how to make maps back in the day.
There be capitalism!
In 1970, Sérgio Mendes employed a young carpenter to build a music studio in his backyard in Encino. The carpenter (far right) was also an aspiring actor and his name was Harrison Ford.
My wife, looking over my shoulder, asked which one is you. 
My brother pointed out the Mendes is using sign language.
What did he say?
It's the symbol for assh*le.
He remembered it, of all things, from a scene in the movie Mr. Hollands Opus with Richard Dreyfus.
He remembered it, of all things, from a scene in the movie Mr. Hollands Opus with Richard Dreyfus.
Classy …
In 2003, two men stole a parked Boeing 727 from Luanda International Airport, Angola... and flew away into the sunset. They've never been found.
It happened on 25 May 2003, shortly before sunset. It is believed that Ben C. Padilla and John M. Mutantu took the plane for which they had no certification to fly. The plane maneuvered erratically and took off with enough fuel to giving it a range of about 2,400 kilometres (in the attached pic).Neither the aircraft nor the two men have been seen since, and no debris from the aircraft has been found.
It happened on 25 May 2003, shortly before sunset. It is believed that Ben C. Padilla and John M. Mutantu took the plane for which they had no certification to fly. The plane maneuvered erratically and took off with enough fuel to giving it a range of about 2,400 kilometres (in the attached pic).Neither the aircraft nor the two men have been seen since, and no debris from the aircraft has been found.
Crazy!
Navigator was D.B. Cooper.
I remember seeing a goofball movie about D.B. Cooper with Treat Williams and Robert Duval, of all people, back in the early 80's.
Fan of Williams ever since
Fan of Williams ever since
I wonder if the American sledge cured more with age?
Concrete "cures", steel does not. I would guess that the old-school US-made hammer was heat-treated better or longer.