>> ^rasch187:
“Many people are of the assumption that aircraft lavatories dump overboard when they are flushed, this is not the case. Lavatory waste is contained on the aircraft in a holding tank until the aircraft lands. When the aircraft is safely on the ground, only ground crew personnel may operate the valve to dump the waste tank. While in flight it is physically impossible for the pilots to dump the waste water because the valve is usually located on the exterior of the aircraft.”
From the Chicago O'Hare Flight Standards District Office
socialist propaganda!

Because the Supertanker uses a pressurized dump system it can drop water from 400 to 800 ft as opposed to other water bombers which use gravity to drop the water and must be around 200ft. This video, though, is probably just a test of the system itself, so is flying much higher.
>> ^Zyrxil:
It's hard to imagine how dropping the water from what looks like a very high altitude would do anything useful, as by the time the water reached the ground it'd be dispersed over an extremely large area.

>> ^Skeeve:
Yep, it's an Evergreen 747 Supertanker, the largest aerial firefighter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Supertanker>> ^vaporlock:
Is this a firefighter or what's going on. Anyone know?

It's hard to imagine how dropping the water from what looks like a very high altitude would do anything useful, as by the time the water reached the ground it'd be dispersed over an extremely large area.


>> ^Skeeve:
Yep, it's an Evergreen 747 Supertanker, the largest aerial firefighter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Supertanker>> ^vaporlock:
Is this a firefighter or what's going on. Anyone know?

Yep, it's an Evergreen 747 Supertanker, the largest aerial firefighter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Supertanker>> ^vaporlock:
Is this a firefighter or what's going on. Anyone know?

Alvin M. "Tex" Johnston (August 18, 1914 - October 29, 1998) was a jet-age test pilot for Bell Aircraft and the Boeing Company.

Tex Johnston is best known for barrel rolling the Boeing model 367-80 (better known as the Dash-80, the prototype of the KC-135 Stratotanker, which was the basis for the very first US transport jet B-707) in a demonstration flight over Lake Washington outside of Seattle, on August 7, 1955. The maneuver was caught on film and is frequently shown on the Discovery Wings cable channel in a three-minute short as part of the Touched by History series. Called before then Boeing president Bill Allen for rolling the airplane, Johnston was asked what he thought he was doing. Tex responded with "I was selling airplanes". Johnston kept his position as a test pilot, and got in no legal troubles for his actions.

*history *documentaries

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sorry, its a great clip

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And yet the most effective weapon system used against America in the last 60 years was four Boeing commercial aircraft.

Also check out the Boeing X-45 which should be able to land on aircraft carriers, and of which prototypes already exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-45

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>> ^peggedbea
the point thats being missed is that its a gigantic industry, linked to every other imaginable gigantic industry. it must support a massive infrastructure, education, salaries and insurance and liability costs of millions and millions of people. who do deserve to get paid. it is subject to all the other whims and manipulations of markets, inflations, corruption, bad management, human error and bad politicking. etc etc etc.

Do you know how many different people, from how many backgrounds, working with how many billions of dollars of equipment it takes to construct a computer which performs 3,000,000,000 operations a second? The computer industry is much larger and more complex than the healthcare system.

not only that, it is intimately entangled into every single persons life. from the joys of birth to the tragedy of death and everywhere in between. it is subject to bad decisions, catastrophic accidents, ignorance and arrogance of every single person.

As opposed to say, the civil engineers who built the Golden Gate bridge, of which millions of cars travel across (safely) every day? Or the Boeing 757s built by aerospace engineers, which take billions of people around the world to never-before-seen destinations safely, and at 500 miles per hour?

its huge. too big. and too important. and there is no solution. but the path we are currently on is completely unacceptable and unsustainable. and its time try something else.

As opposed to the genetic engineers who splice genes to create hybrid plants resistant to disease, or the agricultural engineers who develop the technologies to provide millions of tons of food each year to feed the 300,000,000 Americans in this country? That big or that important?

but an engineer will never have to cut a premature infant out of a dying mothers womb in a hallway while the father watches in horror. an engineer will never have to ask a mother to sign the paperwork so her sons organs can be harvested. and an engineer will never get beaten up by scared, mentally retarded man twice his size while trying to provide care.

What do you think an aerospace engineer things each time one of their plane crashes? Or a civil engineer thinks when the buildings they designed fell on 9/11? Or the chemical engineer when the drug they designed accidentally kills a thousand people?

Your argument is absolutely vacuous.

There are two reasons why healthcare has been a complete failure not only in the US but worldwide:
1. Healthcare is too intertwined with politics
2. Healthcare providers are not as smart as you think.