2004 R1150 GS running hot

dieselyoda said:

A Beer, is a unit of measurement.

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A beer, can indeed be a unit of measurement.

An acquaintance, named Dave, once declared that 2 liters of beer was to be considered a 'Dave' of beer.
I then announced that if so, then 1 Liter of beer was equal to 500 milliDaves.
That seemed to be confusing to the group.

Best be careful with new units of measurement.
We almost lost a Boeing 767 once.

Yoda may remember if he was around Winterpeg in '83.

motorradmike said:

A beer, can indeed be a unit of measurement.

An acquaintance, named Dave, once declared that 2 liters of beer was to be considered a 'Dave' of beer.
I then announced that if so, then 1 Liter of beer was equal to 500 milliDaves.
That seemed to be confusing to the group.

Best be careful with new units of measurement.
We almost lost a Boeing 767 once.

Yoda may remember if he was around Winterpeg in '83.

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2 Liters of beer would be a "floor of beer".

I actually was in Gimli a few days after that plane landed. We were bull-penning machines for winter roads at the old hangers. Some interesting stories came from that adventure and when I hear about, even now, I still can't believe nobody got hurt.

We're way off topic here but what the hey. In 2003 I flew from Vancouver to Seoul Korea on the famous Gimli Glider. Although it was one very old plane and is currently parked in the desert waiting for some people in Manitoba to get enough money together to bring her home to Gimli (well, they think it should be her home) the crew absolutely LOVED flying on that plane I was told.

When I asked why they told me it was the luckiest plane in the entire fleet. They reckoned chances of something like that incident ever happening again on THAT plane were slim to zip!

The Hudson River landing was pretty amazing but this guy ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet and glided a 767 well over 200kms to an abandoned air field and made it. The landing gear was trashed but they fixed it and flew the jet out of there two days later! It's an amazing story.

We got way off topic a long time ago but it has been fun.

I actually thought we were trying to buy it back to add to our subsidized housing..............

She sat on the ground for a week while cranes and crap were brought in to lift it. They used one of our Cats to turn it around then anchored it to two Cats during the engine testing.

One guy I ride with, he rides a Connie, was the sheet metal guy. Another friend, since passed, did the engine testing. In actual fact, it did take them just two days to fix it and get in the air. It just took about two weeks of fussing with it to get it lifted, change the gear, get it turned around, get fuel in it and an extra day to find the co-pilot's and pilot's shorts.

We were convinced they tossed them when they got off the plane so nobody knew they **** themselves.

Since we are so far off topic, I will just add this little extra:

The three bars on the First Officer's applets mean; "Not My Fault".

The four bars on the Captain's applets mean; "It's All My Fault".

I have good authority on this as my son is a First Officer on an A320 he just smiles when he describes some stuff.

Nothing better than a good hijack and I have not even cleaned the radiator yet.

Keep it lively.

dick said:

Nothing better than a good hijack and I have not even cleaned the radiator yet.

Keep it lively.

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Well with the overnight temps in Denver going below freezing maybe you're just not motivated!

C'mon now, clean that oil cooler!

Meanwhile we'll just keep farting around here...

happy wanderer said:

Well with the overnight temps in Denver going below freezing maybe you're just not motivated!

C'mon now, clean that oil cooler!

Meanwhile we'll just keep farting around here...

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It's youth soccer season and adult softball season - not much spare weekend time until November

Plus it isn't that cold. I am still riding to work most days.