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Re: LEGO® Airlines ... where do you want to go?
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 20 Jul 2004 05:58:56 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Doug Eaton wrote:
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This looks amazingly like set 455. Has LEGO owned this plane for the last 29
years?
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That’s a Lear, most of these pictured ones seem to be Citations, which are a bit
newer, but they certainly may have had a Lear in the past and used the same
scheme, it’s a natural to put a red stripe and tail logo on an as delivered
aircraft (many of them are delivered in white with some sort of striping which
you can ask the factory to omit)...
At least that’s my understanding from my readings of Private Pilot.
Note that owning and operating a Citation is a good chunck of change, many of
these craft have operating costs in the 2-5K/hour range. And LEGO has 3!
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| (...) Not to mention the cost of maintaining just one of these planes. The owner of the auto dealer I work at just purchased a used Citation III for 2.5 million dollars. A new one can set you back starting from 5 million, and depending on (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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