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Re: Plane Sailing? (was Re: 10024Red Baron)
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lugnet.reviews, lugnet.loc.au
Date: 
Sat, 30 Aug 2003 01:16:23 GMT
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Surely for the purposes of a complete test, and the public demand nothing
less, you could have replaced the rare brown one with a common or garden
grey one.

But of course that would be a case of using "non" aircraft parts on an aircraft!

Having worked on aircraft for 8 years I can tell you that is a little bit of a
no-no (only a little bit, as fencing wire 'was' considered ok on early planes,
ie the Camel, maybe thats what the Camel needs to bring it up to speed!)

While on the subject of swooshing, maybe we can get Snoopy in to pilot the
Camel!



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  Re: Plane Sailing? (was Re: 10024Red Baron)
 
(...) Having carefully guarded the safety of my only brown LEGO brand common or garden shovel, I had a minor, completely non-swoosh testing related accident, wherein a partially completed house and fairly large backyard was dropped on the Red Baron (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-03, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)

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  Re: Plane Sailing? (was Re: 10024Red Baron)
 
(...) I applaud your thoroughness, however, regarding the following passage: "...the tester decided not to continue out of fear for the strength of the Baron’s tailskid (his sole LEGO brown minifig shovel). It may well have survived four more (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.loc.au)

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