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[Tony Bandiera Jr]

My brother (the engineer) pointed out that there's an obvious and simple design flaw where that door cover is on the outside of the frame. If it was on the inside the interior pressure would help hold it in place rather than pushing it off.

The reason it has to be on the outside is because that opening is intended to be readily retrofitted to an actual emergency exit door, which MUST open outwards, not in. To design it as your engineer brother pointed out would require actual modifications to the hinge and stop points on the airframe for the conversion, which opens up a LOT of other inspections and certifications to do that retrofit. They tried to KISS, but it bit them in the ass. Current reports are blaming QC issues at the Spirit plant that built it.

[Frank Cox]

My brother (the engineer) pointed out that there's an obvious and simple design flaw where that door cover is on the outside of the frame. If it was on the inside the interior pressure would help hold it in place rather than pushing it off.

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Yea, finding that part so fast will generate a proper repair procedure for it pretty quickly, and there are six of those "plug doors on that model... the higher capacity version has extra evacuation doors in those 6 places.

[Leo Enticknap]

A second phone was also found, but they didn't say much about it.

Maybe its owner was watching porn on it when the thing got sucked out?

But yes, that's a pretty impressive ad, both for the iPhone, and whatever protective case/shell its owner had put on it.

As for the door, it came down in a suburban backyard. 20 feet in the other direction, and it could have gone through the roof of a house, onto a car ... yet another astonishingly lucky escape.

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Yea, and that iPhone falling from 16k feet and not a scratch on it. But I'm still not buying one... A second phone was also found, but they didn't say much about it.

Good one Tony! I think Boeing's problems may well extend to all the planes of that model. I'd rather drive anyway, too much stuff to see and do along the way. Airports suck, and so do the airports. Some are so big now that one may need to take a copter from one side to get to a connecting flight at a gate on the other side.

[Tony Bandiera Jr]

Boeing takes the "We have an open door policy" to new heights....

[Leo Enticknap]

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Low hanging fruit, but satisfying nonetheless...

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

There is also a carpet museum in Salt Lake City. Looks like a Cinerama Theater!

[Frank Cox]

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The Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum
What a nifty looking building.

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Yesterday was Winter Solstice... Shortest day of the year. I wonder how that would have affected different things???

[Jim Cassedy]

Is there another extra-full moon this week? Or has the earth shifted on its' axis?
I seem to have encountered several unusual oddities in the booth this week:

> NETFLIX, the company that recently announced they will no longer
ship out blu-ray & dvd disks, has started sending me stuff on 35mm.
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(not that that's a bad thing . . )

When did this happen? Does this mean that future 35mm prints
from MGM will arrive in one of those Amazon delivery vans?
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This year's DCP of ELF arrived from WB with a 3½ min tribute 'clip reel' before the
feature commemorating WB's 100th anniversary. But in THE VERY FIRST CLIP, we see
Judy Garland, superimposed over the famous trademark water tower on the WB
studio lot, reciting the line "there's no place like home" from The Wizard Of Oz.
- - but wait a minute. . . W-O-Z was an MGM picture. WTF does that have to do with WB?
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It's little things like this that keep me awake some nights. . . ,.

[Jim Cassedy]

A friend sent me this photo-
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I looked online and this place actually exists! It's one of those tourist trap rest stop type of
places along old US Route 66 in rural Missouri. Their equally amusing and cringe-worthy
slogan is: "What happens in Uranus, stays in Uranus"

[Jim Cassedy]

Heh. I recently got a hard drive in a pelican shipping
case inside a box with a similar amount of padding as yours..

Lol- there was actually another whole layer of foam bricks I removed to take the photo.

. . Send it back the way you got it. .

That's my usual policy, except when a box arrives so beat up that it wouldn't
be wise to ship it back in the same one.

[Martin McCaffery]

Heh. I recently got a hard drive in a pelican shipping case inside a box with a similar amount of padding as yours.
Send it back the way you got it. If it is a print from a private collector they can be very protective of their babies.

[Jim Cassedy]

I handle a lot of different films from a lot of different sources, and like many of you who
do the same, I have received films in a lot of different packages, including burlap sacks
and a 12 reel double feature packed into a footlocker. So I wasn't all that surprised when
I received a film last week in a U-Haul moving box:

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Well, this is a new one- - - a perfectly good, practically new ICC shipping case that was
shrink wrapped and then shipped INSIDE of a well padded box. Seems like a bit of overkill to me.
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I've met some "new" projection-people who don't know how to properly tape down
reel-ends, or who don't know what 'reel-bands' are, or how to use them. . but I've
never met one who didn't understand the concept of a SHIPPING case. . . .

(so, should I ship it back to them in this box, or just use the ICC case as God intended?