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cargolaw.com said:
[SIZE=-1]And The [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Cfm56-7B Type[/SIZE][SIZE=-1] Jet Engine From [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Snecma/G.E[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]. Looks A Little Flat[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]That's how they always look.... :)
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I like how they cover up the name, and all the signage on the thing. Wait, aren't we supposed to report this as suspicious activity to the TSA?
 
Wow looks expensive. I'd be interested in finding out how the sinkhole took out the top part of the winglet though...?
 
That website is about the most confusing thing I've ever seen.

We used to ferry CRJs in and out of GLH for paint jobs when the fleet was undergoing a switch in liveries back in 2008 and 2009. Being a reserve guy I normally got assigned this trips which would leave Dayton after the plane got in on the terminator flight sometime after 10pm. We'd get down there around midnight, hopefully get met by one lone ramper/mechanic (sometimes with lighted wands and sometimes just flashing the lights on his pickup truck), shut down one plane, walk over to the nice shiny new plane (which had often times been baking in the heat for the last two days with an undumped lav and a cabin full of mosquitoes), start it up and head home.

Anyhow, the first time I went down there I had no idea where on the airport the paint shop was. Our dispatch supervisor who handed me the jepp chart and what not for the airport (as it wasn't in our regular subscription) gestured at the 10-9 plate and said "the hangar you are looking for is over here". He was pointing at the top half of the plate. That was helpful. We landed on their one lighted runway and taxied in past the terminal trying to find where we were going. Thankfully they had the paint hangar door open and the lights on and I could see another CRJ surrounded by plastic sheets inside. It wasn't the one we were picking up but I figured ours had to be near by.

The trick of course was getting over there though. On the 10-9 plate it just showed a large extend of ramp. What little I could see in that direction looked like cracked concrete with lots of grass going through it. The thought of taking a 47,000 pound jet off roading didn't sound too appealing to me so we kept going hoping to find a taxiway leading back through there. Of course there wasn't (or at least not that we ever found) so eventually we just turned towards the hanger and VERY slowly started taxiing across the ramp with all of our landing lights on so we could avoid the pot holes as best we could. Oh, and also the random concrete pillars sticking 5 feet out of the ramp at random intervals.

Strange place. I'm just glad I got in and out of there 4 or 5 times without bending metal, or apparently falling into a sink hole.
 
I'll agree that site could use a little design help, but its got some great pics and stories in it. I usually check it every few weeks for anything new.
 
I spent a few weeks there(literally) after hurricane ike in 2008. I was on reserve in IAH, and branded and DELCON out of LA had just closed. Lots of repainting back into CAL livery. We would take a plane in there from SHV to get repainted(after shv mx did the mods on it) then wait till a plane was done to take back out. Wash, rinse, repeat. Sometimes it was a day, sometimes it was 2 or 3 days. Great riverboat casinos, however its a very southern sleepy town right on the mississippi. Great bbq joint too, but not the kind of town I felt all warm and fuzzy in. definitely an outsider there.
 
BobDDuck said:
The trick of course was getting over there though. On the 10-9 plate it just showed a large extend of ramp. What little I could see in that direction looked like cracked concrete with lots of grass going through it. The thought of taking a 47,000 pound jet off roading didn't sound too appealing to me so we kept going hoping to find a taxiway leading back through there. Of course there wasn't (or at least not that we ever found) so eventually we just turned towards the hanger and VERY slowly started taxiing across the ramp with all of our landing lights on so we could avoid the pot holes as best we could. Oh, and also the random concrete pillars sticking 5 feet out of the ramp at random intervals.

Strange place. I'm just glad I got in and out of there 4 or 5 times without bending metal, or apparently falling into a sink hole.
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Do your regs say anything about letting the FO walk out ahead of the airplane as a spotter? :laff:
 
Dynasty22 said:
story behind it?
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It was a sinkhole that opened up on the ramp...

This was posted on our pilot forum a few weeks ago.


Fresh off the paint line at a facility in Greenville (GLH), Miss., a CO Boeing 737-800 was damaged early this morning when a concrete taxiway gave way underneath the plane's main landing gear. The pavement broke due to an undetected sinkhole beneath the surface. The aircraft was taxiing at the beginning of a ferry flight to IAH so it could re-enter service. The two pilots, the only people on board, were uninjured. A maintenance crew is on site to recover the aircraft and assess damage.
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Here's more pics, they are not mine, they came from another poster on flyertalk.

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