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Spawning airplanes

#1 Post by SpacemanSpiff » Sun Jul 06, 2014 7:48 am

This is one of those pictures that'll make you do a doubletake.

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No, this isn't a photoshop job. Apparently there was a train derailment in Montana of a freight train taking some plane fuselages to Boeing's Washington plant for further work. Now they're trying to figure out how to fish the darn things out.

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/articl ... 601936.php
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#2 Post by Bob Juch » Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:37 am

They're evolving. Out of the water and onto land. Pretty soon they'll be flying.
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#3 Post by SpacemanSpiff » Mon Jul 07, 2014 6:17 am

Someone obviously had fun with one of the images this weekend:

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#4 Post by BackInTex » Mon Jul 07, 2014 7:53 am

Bob Juch wrote:They're evolving. Out of the water and onto land. Pretty soon they'll be flying.
O.K. I will admit, that there is funny.

But I doubt those three will ever be flying. Maybe their offspring.
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