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An audiophile and petrolhead's journal: Buckle up!
Mar 22, 2013 at 1:41 PM Post #2,311 of 9,499
obobskivich said:
Hire a body double to replace you for a few days? Fake your own death (and subsequent miraculous re-incarnation)? Fake a really serious accident and say you have to go to the hospital for a few days? Send her on a wild goose chase/vacation to some part of the world that isn't Scotland?

Beyond that, I don't have many other outlandish ideas. :xf_eek:
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That's not bad, faking my own death, but I'm afraid I'd come back and she'd already have someone moved in to take my place, that could be awkward. :eek: She's not extremely sentimental, she may not grieve for more than a couple days, 3 tops.
 
Mar 22, 2013 at 1:51 PM Post #2,312 of 9,499
magick man said:
That's not bad, faking my own death, but I'm afraid I'd come back and she'd already have someone moved in to take my place, that could be awkward. :eek: She's not extremely sentimental, she may not grieve for more than a couple days, 3 tops.
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Oh, well in that case I've got three easy steps:


Step 1: Learn to fly an airplane.
Step 2: Complete Reese Bobby's advanced driving school.
Step 3: Rent this ugly mother:


Use the above mentioned ugly mother, plus the "go fast" talent you've picked up from Reese Bobby's advanced driving school, and I figure you'll have ~30 hours in Scotland plus the ~12 hours of travel time to conduct whatever ritual business you've got to conduct. I'd also suggest fueling this rampage with a few gallons of 5 Hour Energy, Red Bull, and No-Doz.

If you need additional ground time, and expect to cover reasonably large distances on the ground, I would bring the Ford GT for transit to and from your business and the mothership, I would suggest maximum boost.

So you'll have roughly 42 hours to complete this entire fiesta; out of a total of 72 hours. So as long as the time you spend chained to a chair for violating FAA regulations on the return trip is <30 hours, I think you'll be okay. :D
 
Mar 22, 2013 at 1:59 PM Post #2,313 of 9,499
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obobskivich said:
Oh, well in that case I've got three easy steps:


Step 1: Learn to fly an airplane.
Step 2: Complete Reese Bobby's advanced driving school.
Step 3: Rent this ugly mother:


Use the above mentioned ugly mother, plus the "go fast" talent you've picked up from Reese Bobby's advanced driving school, and I figure you'll have ~30 hours in Scotland plus the ~12 hours of travel time to conduct whatever ritual business you've got to conduct. I'd also suggest fueling this rampage with a few gallons of 5 Hour Energy, Red Bull, and No-Doz.

If you need additional ground time, and expect to cover reasonably large distances on the ground, I would bring the Ford GT for transit to and from your business and the mothership, I would suggest maximum boost.

So you'll have roughly 42 hours to complete this entire fiesta; out of a total of 72 hours. So as long as the time you spend chained to a chair for violating FAA regulations on the return trip is <30 hours, I think you'll be okay.
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I'd save even more time with this.....
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Mar 22, 2013 at 2:21 PM Post #2,314 of 9,499
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magick man said:
So... I'm trying to figure out how to get to Scotland without my wife knowing... any ideas? lol
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Ask her to come with you. If she says no, pretend to be extremely hurt while you're packing your bags.
 
Mar 22, 2013 at 2:36 PM Post #2,315 of 9,499
I have to go with the SR71, that's classy. You hit Mach 4, then deposit your breakfast into the air mask. :D

Seriously, they've sent comprehensive photos and a video, narrated by a woman with the thickest Scottish accent I've ever heard, so I think we're good. It has a new-ish roof, the cellar doesn't leak, and it received a good grade from the Crown's building code people, so I'm comfortable with it. The caretaker, despite the Wolfhound fetish, seems to be a decent, if mildly eccentric, guy. "Thar ain't na haints in de hoose. `N iffin thar was, they ain't t'worry aboot, bein' a God-fearin' man. Ya see?" :blink:
 
Mar 22, 2013 at 2:37 PM Post #2,316 of 9,499
eke2k6 said:
Ask her to come with you. If she says no, pretend to be extremely hurt while you're packing your bags.
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Her? Say no to Scotland? Heh. That'd be like the Pope saying no to wafers and wine. :D
 
Mar 22, 2013 at 7:56 PM Post #2,319 of 9,499
Mar 23, 2013 at 12:01 AM Post #2,321 of 9,499
veyrongatti said:
dosent the sr71 have a tendency to like umm crash?
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Them's fightin' words young buck! The SR71 was the safest manned aircraft routinely cruising above Mach 3 in the world. It was also the ONLY manned aircraft routinely cruising above Mach 3 in the world...

There were quite a few SR71 crashes, but not that many compared to the number of hours they flew over ~30 years. I think 2 or 3 crew were lost, the rest ejected safely. As I recall, almost all the crashes were during take-off or landing. OTOH, the XB70 was a freaking disaster. The crash of one of the prototypes in 1966 was the last nail in the coffin of the large supersonic aircraft concept in the USA - before it even really got started. The US SST program was canceled in 1971, and all supersonic flights over the US were banned. The official reason was the sonic booms - but the idea of Mach 2 aircraft buzzing over US cities also seriously freaked out Congress.

I used to work with a couple of the Lockheed test pilots that had flown the SR71, and I once met Bill Park - one of the only men to ever eject from a SR71 that was cruising at altitude. That crash occurred during a test of the D21 drone that was launched from the back of an SR71 *while* it was going Mach 3. Bill Park had testes of solid adamantium - he also flew the first flight of the U2 and the first flight of Have Blue (the prototype of the F117). The test pilots I talked to feared, respected and loved the SR71. Bill Park actually had a couple of ejections from the SR71 - and he kept flying it long after that.
 
Mar 23, 2013 at 12:04 AM Post #2,322 of 9,499
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billybob_jcv said:
Them's fightin' words young buck! The SR71 was the safest manned aircraft routinely cruising above Mach 3 in the world. It was also the ONLY manned aircraft routinely cruising above Mach 3 in the world...

There were quite a few SR71 crashes, but not that many compared to the number of hours they flew over ~30 years. I think 2 or 3 crew were lost, the rest ejected safely. As I recall, almost all the crashes were during take-off or landing. OTOH, the XB70 was a freaking disaster. The crash of one of the prototypes in 1966 was the last nail in the coffin of the large supersonic aircraft concept in the USA - before it even really got started. The US SST program was canceled in 1971, and all supersonic flights over the US were banned. The official reason was the sonic booms - but the idea of Mach 2 aircraft buzzing over US cities also seriously freaked out Congress.

I used to work with a couple of the Lockheed test pilots that had flown the SR71, and I once met Bill Park - one of the only men to ever eject from a SR71 that was cruising at altitude. That crash occurred during a test of the D21 drone that was launched from the back of an SR71 *while* it was going Mach 3. Bill Park had testes of solid adamantium - he also flew the first flight of the U2 and the first flight of Have Blue (the prototype of the F117). The test pilots I talked to feared, respected and loved the SR71. Bill Park actually had a couple of ejections from the SR71 - and he kept flying it long after that.
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So supersonic flight will never come back? 
 
Mar 23, 2013 at 12:07 AM Post #2,323 of 9,499
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veyrongatti said:
So supersonic flight will never come back? 
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There are still some supersonic military planes....but nothing anywhere near as fast as the SR71. I don't think anything else has approached Mach 3. There are some fighters that can do a little over Mach 2, IIRC, but I think that's going all out and guzzling their fuel madly.
 
Mar 23, 2013 at 12:39 AM Post #2,324 of 9,499
With the fuel issues, we won't have supersonic commercial flight again until it's non-fossil based.




She's all finished, and we did the SC upgrade, which not only increased bhp/torque to 725/715, it also increased gas mileage by 3-4mpg. Try to figure that one out. :confused: It requires 93 octane now, oh well. Now it also has a 100% locking LSD, new dampers/coilovers, and shed ~200lbs. Drives very well, and the sound is incredible. One of the best sounding cars I've ever heard.
 
Mar 23, 2013 at 1:19 AM Post #2,325 of 9,499
Oh, and BTW, the guy selling the comics is including the original TMNT #1-8, 1st prints. Tonight I told him I'll buy his books, but it isn't a loan, I want them outright, and I'll give him 60% of book value for all. He has a week to think about it.
 
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