working for Boeing

[joeallonby]

on 7/5/04 12:44 PM, umberto rossi at teacher at inwind.it wrote:

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> In data 5 Jul 2004, verso le 9:08, pynchonoid si trovò a scrivere su
> Re: working for Boeing:
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>> Gotta agree - the Bomarc article alone is worth the
>> price of admission.
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>>> "A Trove on New Works by
>>> Thomas Pynchon? Bomarc
>>> Service News Rediscovered" by Adrian Wisnicki
>>> (Pynchon Notes 46-49, 2003,
>>> pp. 9-34). 
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> A nice picture of the rock... uh, missile can be seen at
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> http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/mwade/lvs/bomarc.htm
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> http://www.hill.af.mil/museum/photos/coldwar/bomarcb.htm
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> umberto rossi
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Once a failed pin in the aircraft hoist gear sent a missile and trailer
rumbling down the loading ramp at a clip which might have compared favorably
with airborne cruise speed to anyone in the way. But nobody, luckily, was in
the way. Everyone had been paying attention to the 2 dash 2's oft-repeated
warning (repeated an even dozen times, to be exact): "Keep personnel away
from down-ramp end of trailer as it is being pulled up (or rolled down)
loading ramp."


C'mon! "...a clip which might have compared favorably with airborne cruise
speed to anyone in the way." This is funny stuff!