Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

I need a guppy filler! Any recommendations?

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » The DU Lounge Donate to DU
 
joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 06:21 PM
Original message
I need a guppy filler! Any recommendations?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 06:26 PM
Response to Original message
1. Food. N/T
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
oxymoron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 06:29 PM
Response to Original message
2. I use Spackle
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 06:36 PM
Response to Original message
3. When you say "Guppy" did you mean one of these?


A Super Guppy delivers a part for the International Space Station, 1999

“It will never get off the ground.” “It’s ridiculous.” “With that large a fuselage and the present tail, it will be unstable.” So the detractors said, and unlike the detractors in most aviation stories, they were right. It was the world’s largest airplane and in many ways the most unlikely, and to one degree or another it fulfilled all these comments and predictions.

The first time the Pregnant Guppy (its peculiar shape gave it the name) took off from California’s Mojave Airport under its maximum weight of 141,000 pounds, in the spring of 1963, it did manage to get aloft, but just barely. After the usual long, lumbering ground run, the landing gear was retracted, but the ship could climb no faster than the hilly ground was rising in front of it. The air speed seemed locked at 128 knots. An awed and expectant silence prevailed in the cockpit, even as the engines and propellers churned away at their noisiest level.

The town of Boron loomed dead ahead. It looked as if the Guppy’s crew would clean it out if they didn’t turn, but a turn might sink them back into the ground. The flight engineer saw that the right inboard engine was giving them trouble. He told the pilot, “Number three is overheating. Can I pull it back?”

“Don’t touch it.”

“But it will burn up!”

“Let it burn.”


The strange epic of the ugly airplane that got us to the moon
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 06:52 PM
Response to Reply #3
5. No, the guppy I mean is much smaller!
But hey, this thread makes no sense anyway, so we could go with your guppy!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
No2W2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 06:41 PM
Response to Original message
4. see a taxidermist?
:D
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr 26th 2024, 04:08 PM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » The DU Lounge Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC