Charlie, Maybe I missed something but what is a "jet way"? Is it the Jet Stream? Without its meaning I can not understand what you are saying. I know that civilian and military aircraft have a lot of associated jargon such as cloaking (hiding from radar) as I tangentially work in related projects here at the MIT of Korea. George -----Original Message----- From: Charlie Falke <chfalke@xxxxxxx> To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sat, Dec 19, 2009 1:33 pm Subject: [LRflex] Re: The Works Andy Wagner wrote: Charlie I could see this thing hitting the side of a plane!! ------ >-- Regards YXAndy Andy, I don't know any rates, but all kinds of similar ground vehicles swarm over an airliner every time it turns around. The first time a 777 went out of the US during the flight test, a jet way took one of its doors clean off, and it was stuck there until they could fly a new door down to it. Here is one for catering the upper deck of an A380, being demonstrated on a mock up: http://www.theeuropeanvancompany.eu/01/MyImages/aircraft_catering_boxes.jpg -- harlie Falke _____ /\ | __/\__/------/__) |(____\/_________/ One test result is worth | |/ `o one thousand expert opinions" - Wernher Von Braun 0 N4003M Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/