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Camera Gear Question

I have been away from this site for a long time, but I need some advice about some gear and figured that some of the experts here could assist me. Recently I did a photo shoot for an organization who is having a national convention later this summer. They want me to take some portrait-type shots for...

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RE: Earth Shattering WN Rumor...round 2

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RE: WN Paint Scheme Update - Shamu Moves To -700's

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RE: Rumor: New SWA Special Livery On 6/14

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RE: NWA Hiring Flight Attendants

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RE: Scabs At NW- Harmful Or Helpful

Yeah, who cares as long as YOU, the flying public, are not inconvenienced. Let the management who, through inepitude and mismanagement, got the company into such a mess now walk all over the workers. It's all good as long as you get your $99 ticket. Scabs need to remember one thing: The stigma of cr...

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RE: NWA Wants To Eliminate Half Of Their Mechanics!

I've been reading this off an on during my breaks all day... I love it when people who don't know anything about my job try to tell me what salary I should be making. For the record, I do not make six figures, although our mechanics are among the highest paid in the industry. There are very few jobs...

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RE: Beyond Red V. Blue--Great Survey

Enterpriser here.

Filler, filler, filler.

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AMT Day...again

Well, it's AMT Day again (at least for a few more hours) and I chose to break my silence and just say "Happy AMT Day". Last year, this thread turned into an ugly discussion about "maintainers" vs "mechanics". For a good laugh as you stroll down memory lane, read this: <a href="http://www.airliners.n...

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RE: Watermarking Images

Thanks, DLKAPA. That seems to work beautifully for a visible watermark.

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RE: Watermarking Images

No these are some pictures that I took for an organization and several copies of these pictures will end up in a number of peoples' hands. I will be asking these people to use the pictures for personal use, but you know how that goes. I'm just trying to cut down on unauthorized use.

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737doctor

Watermarking Images

I'm looking for a quality, inexpensive program to digitally and visibly watermark some of my images in order to protect them. Have any of you had much experience with these type of programs and could you give me any advice/recommendations?

Thanks in advance.

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RE: Removing Sharpie And Smudges From Prints

Nevermind guys, carefully applied isopropyl alcohol worked just fine on the Sharpie...

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Removing Sharpie And Smudges From Prints

I was fortunate enough to have Herb and Colleen sign some prints of mine that I intend to have matted and framed so they can be raffled off for charity. In the process, Colleen made a mistake on one of the prints drawing a heart or something, then signed it in another spot. Also, during the time the...

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RE: WN's "fuelmizer" Modifications...

***UPDATE***

The evaluation period is over and the results were disappointing. The three aircraft will now be de-rigged by maintenance.

737doc

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RE: Where Is The BIG WN News?

As I mentioned in another thread, all it turned out to be was that CNN came to the maintenance facility to interview Herb. That's the story I'm getting around here. That's all it was.

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RE: WN "Major Announcement" Tuesday...

So here's the skinny on the announcement...

The story around here is that CNN came to interview Herb. The C-check boys left their plane in the hangar as a back drop for the interview...

That's it. That's the big news.

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RE: Southwest 737-200 Retirement Magazine Article

Tom,

Who was the photographer?

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RE: WN "Major Announcement" Tuesday...

As I mentioned in another thread... Take this with a grain of salt, but the C-Check mechanics were told to leave their plane in the hangar this morning for Herb to use as a backdrop for a press conference. They were told by their supervisor that we were going to announce service to Mexico. However, ...

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RE: Where Is The BIG WN News?

Take this with a grain of salt, but the C-Check mechanics were told to leave their plane in the hangar this morning for Herb to use as a backdrop for a press conference. They were told by their supervisor that we were going to announce service to Mexico. However, this is just one of many rumors I've...

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RE: N96SW To OPF On 02-23

Actually it wasn't a mistake at all. It was due for paint and got painted blue.

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RE: Porn On Plane

Just so you know...

Bits of porn are strategically hidden in the cockpit of almost every commercial plane...under caps and blanking plates, etc.

You hust have to know where to look...

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RE: SWA AMT's I Need Advice

Yes, be yourself, be personable and be enthusiastic. The People Department loves to see enthusiastic applicants. Then afterwards, be patient and persistent. The hiring process takes a long time and persistence can go a long way. Keep in contact with the People Department and let them know that you r...

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RE: First 737 W/o "eyebrows"...

As far as the new -700 that got damaged in the towing accident, it has made things very interesting for us here in Heavy <acronym title="Mexicana Airlines (Mexico)">MX</acronym>. Since we don't have a spare stab and Boeing won't let us have one, we are having to rob a stab off of every -700 that com...

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RE: WN's "fuelmizer" Modifications...

Yes Bagsmasher. Do a search under the Tech/Ops forum for "The 727 that fell out of the sky"... Good reading.

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RE: FR's Newest Form Of Advertising On Their Aircraft

The children's drawings were only done on one aircraft, "The Spirit of Hope" to call attention to our primary corporate charity, the Ronald McDonald House...a bit more worthy of a cause than companies trying to deluge captive consumers with excessive advertising in order to make a buck.

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RE: WN's "fuelmizer" Modifications...

Here I go again, risking getting in trouble for giving away all our "secrets". <img border=0 src="/discussions/graphics/wink.gif" ALT="Big grin"> As mentioned before, three aircraft have gotten the mod, which consisted of replacing the inboard flap cable drum assemblies and outboard flap fairi...

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RE: First 737 W/o "eyebrows"...

<i>A part of me hates the fact that you will never see these things again. Same will be true about the old paint scheme...the day will eventually come when you wont see that anymore.</i> Not true Silver1, three aircraft will remain in the original colors: The Herb Kelleher, the Colleen Barrett and t...

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RE: First 737 W/o "eyebrows"...

I would like to interject here... As a <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> mechanic in Heavy <acronym title="Mexicana Airlines (Mexico)">MX</acronym>, we have to change some or all of the eyebrow windows on every -700 that comes in for a <acronym title="Atlas Air (USA) and Isles o...

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RE: Southwest Vs AA Maintenance

<i>When I fly <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> through <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym> it seems that there are aircraft mechanics all over the place (ramp and terminal). When I fly Southwest through one of their mainte...

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RE: Aviation... Better Than Sex?

Aviation better than sex?

Not even close!!!

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RE: B6 And HP Outsourcing MX Work To Latin America

Yeah don't mind me....I just work here.

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RE: B6 And HP Outsourcing MX Work To Latin America

I believe that Southwest outsources the major D inspection.

We do 1/4D, 1/2D and 5Y checks in-house.

Skin lap mods, paint and full D checks are outsourced.

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RE: B6 And HP Outsourcing MX Work To Latin America

<i>If we are talking about the Air Midwest crash in Charlotte, from what I am reading the <acronym title="Mexicana Airlines (Mexico)">MX</acronym> was outsourced to Raytheon. The accident report cites improper rigging of the elevator as one of the causes for the crash. I'm still looking for info on ...

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RE: Cheney Gives Ok For Israel To Attack Iran

Did you read the freaking headline?

Cheney voices concern that Israel may attack Iran

He is saying that he is concerned that Israel might attack Iran, he's not giving the OK.

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RE: Hangar Jokes

Seal it for fit, paint it for show.

I've always heard a variation of this theme:

Beat to fit, paint to match.

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RE: SWA's "Pajama Party"

Because they were "putting the plane to bed".

Hey don't ask me; I don't come up with this stuff, I just turn wrenches...

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RE: Southwest 737-200 Final News

It was indeed a great party. As mentioned above, I got to meet some fellow photographers and my daughter had a wonderful time with her 'ol dad. Good times. Now having said that, the mysterious and enigmatic 737doctor will once again slip off into the shadows... <img src="/discussions/graphics/b...

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RE: A Sad Day For Boeing

Actually, it's a sad day for me... as one of my photographs was used to in order to try and make a completely ignorant and ridiculous point:

Decades between these 2 airplanes and NO difference!...

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RE: A&P Mechanics License

I've thought about chiming in on this topic too, but does it really matter? In the end, if you really want to do it, you're gonna do it no matter what anyone says. Besides, MxCtrlr said it about as succinctly as anyone could. My advice would be to not put yourself through it, especially if you have ...

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RE: Most Respectable Jobs

I was not surprised that I didn't see 'aircraft mechanic' on the list, even here at Airliners.net, nor was I surprised that 'pilot' and 'flight attendant' made more than one list. Just another day for us here in the trenches...

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RE: Writing A Novel In One Month...

I have had a story (loosely based on my aviation experience) floating around in my head for quite some time. I have my outline ready and about 10 characters sketched out.

You??

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Re: Writing A Novel In One Month...

Anyone care to share their usernames at NaNo?

I'm 737doctor there also...

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RE: A Day In The LIfe Of A WN Jet

Bruce, according to the retirement schedule, the last five -200's are to be retired 16 Jan 05.

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RE: A Day In The LIfe Of A WN Jet

Hey Doc737, what where you drinking that night...??

I think that was a Crown Royal night...

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RE: Writing A Novel In One Month...

Thanks for posting this, Mitch. I guess I'm crazy enough to try it also...

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RE: A Day In The LIfe Of A WN Jet

Ask and you shall receive: <a href="http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/1565800/" target=_blank>http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/1565800/</a> I think I was drunk when I responded to it... <img src="/discussions/graphics/giggles.gif" AL...

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RE: Aviation Mechanics

I'm one of the lucky ones; I work for a stable airline on evening shift with weekends off and I STILL wouldn't recommend that someone else pursue a career as an aircraft mechanic. Things are good now, but things can change. Even though almost every one of us went through hell to get here, I feel lik...

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RE: Why Is WN So Controversial?

Moman, that is an incredibly weak argument. Capitalism is about survival of the fittest. And although Southwest increased competition, they are not to be blamed for the other airlines' poor business models and/or mismanagement. And I'd get into this more (and still might) but I have to go help keep ...

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RE: Southwest Winglets

I took a look at the winglet mod status and here are the numbers:

There are 117 aircraft with the mod already installed out of 172; which means that the 68% of the -700 fleet is fitted with winglets. 55 aircraft remain and the planned completion date is sometime in the 1st Q 2005.

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