I believe it was the 707.
On Friday, October 5, 2001, at 11:57 AM, Bill davis newton wrote:
>
> I think I recall an anecdote that the test pilot of the 747 barrel-
> rolled the prototype in front of a bunch of airline or company execs =
at
> a demo. Or maybe it was another 7x7 plane. Either way, if
> true.....whoa!
>
> - Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Glass <jonglass_at_usa.net>
> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 22:58:10 +0200
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] [OT] airports and Newts
>
>>
>> on 10/5/01 8:30 PM, Lou Forlini at lforlini_at_sspi-software.com wrote:
>>
>>> This brings to mind a news story I read a few months ago. Seems
>>> that a disgruntled (and I mean *really* disgruntled) FedEx employee
>>> stowed away on one of their cargo jets, and appeared in mid-flight
>> to
>>> attack the pilot and co-pilot with a screwdriver. The pilot
>> disabled
>>> him by flying the plane *upside down*, throwing him to the roof. I
>>> can only imagine one of those huge cargo jets being thrown
>> completely
>>> over on its back, I had no idea they could even do that.
>>
>> Glad none of my fragile packages was on the plane. :-)
>> --
>> Jon Glass
>> Krakow, Poland
>> <jonglass_at_usa.net>
>>
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