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No doubt about it- Penske is a first-class rental company.
It improves the aerodynamics.
How to rice-out an International diesel:
1. Slap on Decals (check)
2. Huge useless wing on back (check)
Just when you thought tail wings on cars couldn’t get any more absurd.
Anybody remember Air America?
“Jeesus, Billy, that was a hell of a landing…”
So does this fall under homeland security’s jurisdiction or do they need to get carjacked too?
There had better not be any containers with more than 3.5 fluid ounces of liquid in that vehicle!!!
win
tragedy was averted despite the tail-first birth.
Preview of Penske’s new racing van. They are still trying to figure out how to hide their “secret propulsion” system.
mach III moving
“Tower to Delta 655… I said, ‘Cleared for landing on *runway* 27′, not highway 27…”
YES! Good one.
It’s good to see Penske’s rental rates are no longer sky high.
Now THAT’S an emergency landing!
“Breaker breaker we’re making great time on this trip, old buddy. Have a great tail wind behind us.”
Not quite Good To Go.
Is that a Good To Go sticker on the windshield? Most people in the Gig Harbor, WA area use GtG pay the tolls while crossing the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
So maybe the truck is going to or from Tacoma Narrows Airport.
Anyway, that’s a narrow landing, it that plane flew in there a la Knight Rider.
Give it a Splat!
Y’know, the first thing I thought of when I saw this was how much it looks like Washington. I can’t say about the sticker since I was too young and broke to deal with such things when I lived on that side of the Cascades and was up north of you in Snohomish county. It’s a little too well done for Boeing: I don’t think this set-up would look so nice and neat if that plane’s engine had fallen off.
“Visibility is getting worse. I’ll just descend a little lower and follow the highway.”
Gives a new meaning to head wind.
If a truck carrying a plane is on a conveyor belt running backwards at the takeoff speed, will the plane take off?
No. Only Rodger Penske.
Who left this truck on the runway?!
The driver must be late, ’cause he looks like he’s hauling tail.
Buh-dum bum!
This is a photo of US Airlines Flight 1549 hero Sully” Sullenberger’s lesser known brother “Stewie” Sullenberger who had to ditch his plane on the Henry Hudson Parkway after a flock of Penske Trucks engulfed his engines and fuselage.
What you call just plane wrong, I call forward thinking. Our hero is driving through the mountains as you can see in the picture. Should he inadvertently swerve off the mountain pass, all he needs to do is simply climb to the back, hop into the plane and glide to the bottom of the ravine. Although he’d probably be out his deposit to Penske for the truck…
And it probably would have just been cheaper to just keep a parachute in the cab.
warning: no tailgating.
Gliders for Dummies is being read in the cab.
“Now how fast does the manual say we have to be traveling before we release the tow line?”
“I see you parachuted to safety.”
They are covered if they drive off a cliff…
Tower this is Penski flight 122 taxing to run….errr…highway 53
Someone did an excellent job cutting the hole for the plane’s tail section, and taped or glued the slit to give it a seamless seal.
seeing as it is a silver tarp they could have duck taped it
This really wouldn’t be a strange sight in the San Francisco area, given the MythBusters transport all sorts of ‘irregular’ cargo, heck even flying pigeons once…too lighten the load!
Congrats on being featured in the very top bar of Cheezburger sites!
Push, Mrs. Penske, push! I can see the – wings? Oh dear. Who’s going to tell Mr. Penske?
What else were they supposed to do? The plane obviously has no wings…. or the wings were busted off. In any case it certainly wasn’t flying anywhere. And I’m assuming that that was the longest truck they could rent… so, really, they were up the creek made a makeshift paddle because they had to! I mean, do you have any idea what it costs to pay a shipping company to ship an aircraft fuselage somewhere? I believe the going rate for that these days involves some sort of arm & leg + your firstborn child (plus tax) formula, but check your local shipping agent for details.
I will admit that there should really have been a lot more red (or yellow) flags flying from the tail, but legally you only need to have the one red flag flying so I suppose that this isn’t illigal. Odd-looking, certainly…
Yes, technically it’s a kludge, but it’s a well-done one. I’d like to see one of you ship an aircraft fuselage somewhere without a semi. My hat is off to whoever managed to do this.
Jokekill.
You’re doing it right.
I’ve disassembled and shipped planes like this a few times so far. Usually we use a big flatbed trailer, though. Much easier to load than a truck.
What I want to know is why it’s stuck in the truck at a 45 degree angle. I’d think securing it like that would be much more work than simply removing the horizontal stabilizer.
This is a Lancair Legacy, which is all composite; mostly carbon fiber. The horizontal stabilizer is bonded in place so it’s not removable. What you can’t see, inside the truck, is a 10′ wing center section that is bonded to the fuselage. The plane has to be angled so this 10′ long piece will fit in the truck box.
Ah, that makes more sense. All the planes I’ve disassembled have the wings detach at the wing roots, rather than 1/3 of the way out. I haven’t had the opportunity to do any significant work on a Lancair yet either.
The plane has 12′ outside to outside stub wings. This angle is the only way it’ll go into the truck or onto a flatbed, I know, because I transported a Legacy from L.A. to SQL on a flatbed car trailer, and got many amused looks from the CHP, but no stops……
Lite
“Penske-Now available for all wormhole/black hole transportation”
…and the fight ended with “You can keep the kids, but I’m taking my airplane!”
Microsoft announces new Flight Simulator X1
Earlier this week, MS Game Studios announced a new version of the most popular home flight sim game ever made. New version will introduces new features as the “Advanced Topics” lesson module, including lessons like “How to land your plane at a moving truck” and “Air-to-ground Traffic Madness: Land ad Gibraltar at rush hour”. Also, new airplanes were added, as the Kludgesworth K00, built entirely of chopped wood and duct tape.
DEAR THERE I FIXED IT. THE NEW LAYOUT OF YOUR SITE IN WHICH IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE OLD LAYOUT EXCEPT PUSHED TO THE RIGHT 400 PIXELS IS BREAKING MY NECK, AS I’M SO USED TO LOOKING 400 PIXELS TO THE LEFT. STOP STOP. STOP.
DEAR GUS, TURN OFF YOUR CAPSLOCK and look for the contact information. It’s on the right side, using up a few more pixels.
am i the only one wonder how this would affect the wind-flow at the back of the truck?
I wonder, when this truck has an accident, do we call the AA or the NTSB? Decisons, decisions…
Call everyone you can think of, they won’t want to miss it!
This is the future of flying. Eventually Homeland Security will decide that actually letting airplanes get airborn is too dangerous so you will board the plane, they will ask you to pull down the shutters, and then your plane will have its wings stowed, be shoved into the back of a truck and driven there.
Meanwhile, unfamiliar with new government procedures, Bud waits at the airport wondering why the delivery of his new plane is taking so long.
At least we’ll be able to use cellphones on them again!
Mommy! Daddy! Look! Its a Transformer!
“Did you get the tail num … I mean license plate number of that van?”
“It’s real nice, Bob, but I think for a trophy you’re traditionally supposed to mount the head.”
Unless it’s a bullfight trophy. That plane did put up a good fight in the arena.
I wonder how long did they rent it for to be able to do that to the truck?
Penske’s new Ultra-Glide truck makes your move feel like you are on cloud 9.
Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. Any landing that leaves the plane intact is a great one.
“Well you see Billy when a truck and a plane really love each other…..”
“I could never identify with the other planes.. I felt like a truck, I was interested in truck things, all my friends were trucks.. Thankfully, I got the help I needed, and now the change is almost complete. Just one more operation!”
They said I was crazy. HA! They said there wasn’t a portal in the back of a Penske Truck. How else would that plane have landed in Zornda? I keep telling them that Zornda is a real place, and now I have proof! They will never call me crazy again! HAHAHA!!!
And this, ladies, is why you should withhold judgment before becoming too impressed with a guy who says he owns his own airplane.
I guess the rental business must be soaring
This native plane has found an odd place to put it’s cocoon, which you can now see it is emerging from.
Buddy of mine did something like this. He bought derelict plane in Florida, took the wings off and put it in a rental truck, and drove it to Ohio. He didn’t do the tarp, though — the tail stuck out only a foot or so. Had to rebuild a bunch of stuff, but now he’s flying it.
oh I have always wanted to see a flying penske truck!
Early attempts at the flying truck.
Oh lovely. I see we got the new air conditioning system in today. Cost $15 off of craigslist with the possibility of it not working. Said to save gas too!
It’s still safer than a plane with a truck sticking out its ass
rodger rodger
budjet air express delivery!!
pooa
A little more rudder and that thig is going over!
that.is.EPIC,creepy, & weird.
maybe you should use your brain next time…if you even have a brain…or if there even is a next time.