Originally posted by Bhoy
she put it down whilst washing her hands? wouldn’t a Holster be an idea, or does she need to carry it 24/7? :rolleyes:

FAM’s are undercover so weapons aren’t holstered but carried in other discrete methods. Some of those methods appear to involve special carrying cases. It’s my guess that is what she left behind.

Armed pilots are forbidden from holstering the weapon other than on the flight deck. Outside of that they have a lockbox (safe) to carry the weapon in.

Originally posted by Airline owner
who knows if that person could have left it there on purpose for a terrorist or anything

I seriously doubt that. :rolleyes:

Anyway, the home town airport makes the news! Once again, it wasn’t for something good.

I have 2 problems with the new Northwest livery.

First on the right side of the aircraft the “pointer” in the Northwest logo no longer points to the Northwest but towards the Northeast. It defeats the ingenuity of the original livery.

Second, it seems that no one in the marketing department knows their pop culture, especially the history behind the letters NWA. It’s one thing to use it as a short hand at times but it’s quite another to paint it in huge letters on the side of the aircraft.

http://www.geocities.com/gillbk/nwa.html

Yeah, Niggaz wit Attitude or NWA. I had a captain reply to a taxi clearance following a Northwest Airlines DC-9 by stating “We’ll follow Easy-E to the runway.” The tower controller got it but it was lost on the Northwest crew. 🙂

The Q400 has to have the longest strakes I’ve ever seen.

I’ve posted this one before but it never gets old in my opinion. 🙂

…and on a B1900D. These fit the description that I gave for strakes before as well as those on the 145 above. You’ll see these types of strakes on a lot of the Lear series.