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Without wishing to rain on any parades......

Posted by Tony on Fri Nov 23, 2001 06:58:52 PM

In reply top Re: a small air force for sale (Barnstormers) posted by MGM on Fri Nov 23, 2001 12:49:52 PM

Exactly how are the guests going to get any sleep on a Hercules? I've flown in them, and I needed ear defenders, as for sleeping? Forget it!

Now maybe a C-141 might be suitable?

Tony

: I agree Scott.
: Someone has already done that sort of thing with an Albatr
: oss amphibian haven't they ?
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: It would also make an ideal "moving hotel". similar to a c
: ruise ship but faster, expensive but similar to staying in
: a top class hotel or going on a long cruise, but you get
: to go to lots of places that a cruise ship can't go.
:
: Guests check in...you take them where they want....the pla
: ne carries a car in the back, and they spend the day looki
: ng round the sights....they come back to the airport...sti
: ck the car in the back.....go to bed....the plane flies on
: to the next destination while the guests sleep....give 'em
: brekky in the morning and off they go in the car again,..
: .....and they do it again and again for the duration of th
: e holiday....as long as they like.......a long weekend or
: two or three or four weeks, whatever......you could travel
: a long way with a Hercules.....sound good ?.....I wouldn'
: t mind having that kind of holiday........better than a to
: uring bus/coach by far........and when you've established
: and proved the biz with one Hercy, you buy a load more and
: expand widely and wildly............
:
: TTFN
: Not So Mad As Everyone Thinks Mick
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