I though these pictures would get more viewing here. These are from the off-topic section but now they are on-topic.

Lil Metal in front of Heavy Iron.........compliments of ords.

 

Looks like you could fit inside the engine, no problem

 

Heavy iron? Im reasonably sure there is less than 1% of that plane that is iron. More over, how did you sneak onto the tarmac? I have always wanted to do speed trials and practice drifting at an airport.

 

I'm guessing airplane mechanic. . .

 

Was your Mini out there in front of the JetBlue aircraft for 10 hours?

 

Sneak...Nope, I drive right through security.

 

You are correct about the iron part....it is what 'some' call bigger airplanes. A Citation I pilot will look at the G-V and call it 'Heavy Iron' or a 717 pilot will look at the 777 or 747 as 'Big Iron'. Just a figure of speach.

It is not my Mini.....I just reposted the pictures here out of the "off-topic" section. If ords finds the post I am sure he would be very happy to answer all your questions. But for now.....enjoy the pictures.

 

Looks like he found it.

 

JB was taken at 6am and the AA was shot around 5pm yesterday.

 

wonder how many MINIs will actually fit in one airplane?

 

A LOT!!!

 

Mr. Pep'r you gotta add your pics to this thread for sure

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ad.php?t=93230

 

... A318/321 a "Big Jet."

Now that triple-seven certainly counts as one. Plus, "If it ain't Boeing, I'm not going."

Spend too much of my life riding in those d@#ned aluminum tubes. BTW, that AA shot taken at ORD?

 

Yes, and you know, considering everyone wants to operate the RJ's, at some point those A318/A321 will be considered large.

 

Ords you are 100% correct with the above post!

But do not tell anyone....most of those RJ pilots licenses are still wet. Not to mention under paid.

 

They are not my pictures, I just re posted them for Ords to a thread that more members would see them.

 

i love that the jet engine is bigger then the MINI

 

Yo 2953,

Are you really from Montecito???

I am from Cito! Born and raised. I have not yet seen anybody on Nam from SB, let alone Montecito!

We will have to motor sometime on the backroads!

Jasun

 

Ahem. MINIs, planes, photos and I never got a call?sly:







Fun stuff.

 

... 90 engines rather than Rolls-Royce Trents, the outer diameter of the nacelle would be large enough to fit a 737 cabin inside!

FYI, the Trent is the superior powerplant for the 777.

 

... I'm really from Pasadena! By birth at any rate.

The SB house has been in the family since the mid-fifties and I became the laird (meaning I bought the house from my folks) in the early-eighties. Now I'm supposed to do split-duty between the polar fields of Meechigan and the West Coast. Only problem is for the last couple of years it's been less than a month in total out there.

We keep two cars in the western garage, as it were, but neither is a Mini. As for a putter about the back roads, I would love it. We've got a standard routine we seem to do the first day we get back there... AFTER I take the cars off their jackstands and check the fluids. From the house we head north along 192 to San Marcos Pass, and let the car get its legs back on SMP. Then head up Foxen Canyon or one of the other feeder roads to get us in the backdoor of Santa Maria. Nice pieces of pavement there. North about eight miles from Main Street in SM to Tefft Street in Nipomo, head east to Jocko's for dinner. Return is usually over to the dunes and then south on Cal One with some side trips on parallels until One ties up with 101. After that it's a freeway cruise on 101 all the way down to Olive Mill Road and then home.

I think my wife has spotted you at least once. By any chance do you have a couple of these critters...


If so, I think you've been sighted once or twice.

BTW, your's is the only other monochrome Silver Mini I've ever noticed here at NAM.

 

That is very true. That picture does not do the size any justice.