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2009-08-18T08:09:00.001-07:00

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Weiterstadt, Germany: Porsche 911 Cabriolet camouflaged prototype

2009-02-13T10:28:00.001-08:00

Weiterstadt, Germany: Porsche 911 Cabriolet camouflaged prototype crash, Friday 13th, 2009, 2:45am, kills Porsche engineer., originally uploaded by smokeonit.

Weiterstadt, Germany: Porsche 911 Cabriolet camouflaged prototype crash, Friday 13th, 2009, 2:45am, kills Porsche engineer.

Photo is facing north, the Porsche was traveling south and crashed with the rear into the guardrail, sliding under the guard rail for approx. 50 meters! people who know what damage the edges of a guardrail can do know what happened...! The Porsche didn't break through the median which would have meant that traffic heading north would have crashed into it.... which would have been even more disastrous since the lights have been torn out by the accident and other vehicles would have crashed into the 911 at a very high rate of speed. After all the left lane is normally used at an minimum speed of at least 130 km/h (80 mph). At night with little traffic and at that time (2:45am) most people drive much faster when in the fast lane...!!!

Weiterstadt, Germany: Camouflaged Porsche 911 Cabriolet prototype crash, Friday 13th, 2009, 2:45am, kills 51 year old Porsche engineer who was with Porsche for 25 years.

A Porsche 911 Cabriolet prototype/test mule (2010 model year) crashed into the median guardrail of the southbound A5 (Autobahn 5 Frankfurt-Heidelberg) near Weiterstadt, Germany. After spinning around 180 degrees its' tail slid under the guardrail for about 50 meters (150 feet) before coming to a halt. It seems that the steel structure of the guardrail cut of the upper structure (A-Pillar and convertible roof) of the car. This stretch of the A5 has no speed limit. Reasonable high speed driving is allowed!
The engineer was driving in tandem with another engineer in a Porsche Panamera which followed shortly behind. The Panamera was able to avoid crashing into the 911 and called police and paramedics.

The Porsche 911 was not driving at super high speeds! Porsche conducts high speed testing on closed circuits! Those test mules with new equipment normally don't drive more than 250 km/h (155 mph) and it was wet and snowing very lightly. Every experienced driver would not have driven faster than 140-150 km/h (87-93 mph). My guess is this was a freak accident and the 911 was going around 120-130 km/h (75-80 mph) when he lost control.

I drive this stretch of the A5 a couple of time a week and it's straight, but it has some ditching parts, especially below the overpasses, which can be fatal if wet and there's no optimal grip. An overpass with such a ditch was close by, approximately 700 meters from where the 911 ended up.

I hope this will have consequences for the company manufacturing the guardrail, and the state of Hesse maintenance crew installing the guardrail...! This should not have been a fatal accident!!! My deepest condolences to the family of the Porsche engineer.

Donated by Boeing 1986, 707-430 D-ABOC @ TXL (Airport Tegel, Berlin) today

2009-02-09T01:04:00.003-08:00

Boeing 707 D-ABOC @ TXL (Airport Tegel, Berlin, Germany) 2007

The plane is left to rot at this location. What a shame and an outright scandal!

Used to be on display in front of the main entrance, today she's purposely hidden in the far south-western corner of Tegel Airport (behind a forest blocking the view from the main TXL buildings). The Lufthansa livery has been painted over in order to counter any "ad"-effect the plane might have (had).

Story behind the aircraft:

The aircraft was painted to resemble the 1960's original, but it never actually served with Lufthansa, it was owned & operated by El Al until early 1986 when it was returned to Boeing which was looking for a 707-400 in good condition. Boeing brought it in to their U.S. shop, did a technical check-up and painted it to match the original livery of the D-ABOC. As every Lufthansa plane the name of D-ABOC was "Berlin". The original D-ABOC was scrapped at Tripoli, Libya, in the early 1980s. This plane was a gift to Lufthansa to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Lufthansa, as well as the 200th Boeing delivered to Lufthansa the same year.

November 1986

Boeing had to trick the russians a little since they refused any West-German plane to fly into Berlin or over East-German airspace. It had to be re-registered as N130KR in order to fly it into Tegel Airport. Lufthansa received it with all honors and after some shuffling it got a nice place in front of the Tegel Airport. In 1998 an ex-purser, now running Tegel, by the name of Lothar Schulz wanted to make a name for himself as a hardass penny-pincher and arranged for D-ABOC to be moved to the parking lot of the Tegel Airport fire station which was closed to the public and that meant the plane was not accessible to the public. Since approx. 2000 she's in her final "resting" place, ready to rot. If not drastic measures are taken this plane will be a total loss, since it's parked on top of grass and next to a dense forest on the south-western edge of Tegel Airport. (Geo-Coordinates: 52.5545, 13.2592)

This plane was delivered to El Al 06/1961 as 4X-ATB.

The real D-ABOC was scrapped @ Tripoli in the early 1980's.

The original 4X-ATB actually was involved in a failed hijacking attempt in 1973.
The pilot successfully went into a steep dive allowing the air-marshalls to shoot and kill the involved terrorists. The plane was on route to New York from Tel Aviv and made an emergency landing at London Heathrow in order to cover up the event.

Boeing 707 D-ABOC @ TXL heute. Das Foto wurde Juni 2007 aufgenommen, also kann man davon ausgehen das die Boeing wesentlich schlechter dasteht als in diesem Foto!

Sie wurde vor dem Flughafen auf der Verkehrinsel ausgestellt, ca. 1998 wurde sie auf geheiß von Lothar Schulz, einem ehemaliger Purser bei Lufthansa und nun Manager der BFG, entfernt um "Kosten" zu sparen.
Zuerst wurde sie auf den Feuerwehrparkplatz verbannt, und schlussendlich an diesen Ort gestellt, am süd-westlichen Ende des Flughafens (siehe Geotag), an welchen man nur gelangt wenn man wirklich dorthin will und darf.

Boeing lackierte das Flugzeug in den original 1960er Lufthansa Farben um die 200. Maschine die an Lufthansa verkauft, als auch das 60. jährige Bestehen der Lufthansa, zu feiern. Die D-ABOC war ja bei Inbetriebnahme 1960 Berlin getauft worden, deswegen wurde genau dieses Flugzeug ausgewählt um Lufthansa als auch der Stadt Berlin die Ehre zu erweisen.
Leider existierte die originale D-ABOC nicht mehr, sie wurde Anfang der 1980er Jahre an eine Libysche Fluggesellschaft verkauft um als Ersatzteillager zu dienen. (siehe Geotag des Originalfotos der D-ABOC).
El Al war der Besitzer dieser Maschine und 1986 wurde sie an Boeing abgegeben um dieses Projekt möglich zu machen. Baujahr ist 06/1961 und originale Registrierung 4X-ATB. Boeing überführte sie als N130KR nach Tegel da die DDR und Russland auf das Flugverbot Westdeutscher Fluglinien bestanden. Auch mussten die Lufthansa Insignien überklebt werden und konnten erst wieder in Tegel freigelegt werden.

Bewegte Geschichte dieser israelischen Boeing 707-400:
1973 - Auf dem Flug von Tel Aviv nach New York über Amsterdam versuchten Jugendliche Extremisten die Maschine in ihre Gewalt zu bringen. Daraufhin ging der Pilot in einen Sturzflug über und die an Bord befindlichen bewaffneten Flugbegleiter (heute Air-Marshalls genannt) erschossen die Terroristen. Anschließend landete die Maschine in London Heathrow um den Vorfall zu vertuschen.

1984/1985 - Maschine flog für die ARKIA, blieb aber Eigentum der El Al.

1986 - El Al gibt Maschine an Boeing zurück und als sie wird von Boeing als N32824 registriert.
Dann bewies die Firma Boeing echte deutsch-amerikanische Freundschaft als sie ihrer treuen Kundin Lufthansa zum 60. Gründungsjubiläum und Verkauf der 200. Maschine diese Maschine zum Geschenk machte.
So sollte die Maschine in Lufthansa Farben und mit Deutschem Kennzeichen in West-Berlin landen, um nach vielen Jahren des Flugverbots für Deutsche Fluggesellschaften ein Zeichen zu setzen.
Doch der Kontrollrat der Alliierten der Stadt Berlin erlaubte dies nicht, natürlich auf ausdrückliches betrieben der russischen Verantwortlichen (wer sonst), und der Überflug der SBZ und die Landung in Berlin Tegel als Lufthansa Flugzeug wurde so erfolgreich verhindert. Also registrierte Boeing die Maschine mit einer neuen Nummer und flog im September 1986 als N130KR ohne Behinderung der russischen Behörden nach Berlin Tegel ein.

if you care about this plane please email or write to Lufthansa and tell them how you fell about all this (nicely;-)):

Lufthansa manager email addresses:

andreas.bierwirth@dlh.de
carl.sigel@dlh.de
carsten.spohr@dlh.de
holger.haetty@dlh.de
stefan.lauer@dlh.de
wolfgang.mayrhuber@dlh.de
juergen.weber@dlh.de
stephan.gemkow@dlh.de

snail mail/fax:

Germany
Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Kundendialog Deutschland
D-33322 Gütersloh
Deutschland
+ 49 1805 838005

E.U.
Lufthansa German Airlines
Customer Feedback
PO Box 1289
Liverpool L69 3AX
United Kingdom

U.S.A.
Lufthansa German Airlines
United States of America
Customer Relations
P.o. Box 425, East Meadow,
NY 11554
U.S.A.
Fax: +1 (516) 296 9838

Canada
Customer Relations
P.O. Box 939
31 Adelaide Street East
Toronto ON M5C 2K3
Canada
Fax: +1 (416) 360-8827

Japan
Customer Relations
3-1-13, Shiba Koen,
Minato-Ku,
Tokyo 105-0011
Fax: +81 3 54025226

Donated by Boeing 1986, 707-430 D-ABOC @ TXL today/heute SCANDAL/SKANDAL/OUTRAGEous, originally uploaded by smokeonit.

New Lufthansa Boing 707 D-ABOC 1960

2009-02-09T01:04:00.001-08:00

Lufthansa Boeing 707-430 D-ABOC. Operated by Lufthansa from 1960 until 1977. Plane was scrapped @ Tripoli, Libya, in the early 1980's. She's the original and gave it's name and tail number to the plane featured above.

Lufthansa Boeing 707-430 D-ABOC. Von 1960 bis 1977 bei der Lufthansa im Einsatz. Das Flugzeug wurde in den frühen 1980er in Tripolis, Libyen, verschrottet. Sie ist das Flugzeug welche als Vorbild für das im Post oben beschriebene Flugzeug abgab.

Willy Brandt, damals Regierender Bürgermeister in Berlin, taufte die Lufthansa 707 D-ABOC am 16. September 1960 auf den Namen der alten Heimatstadt der Lufthansa, Berlin.
Von 1960 bis 1977 bei Lufthansa im Einsatz. Das Flugzeug wurde in den frühen 1980er in Tripolis, Libyen, verschrottet.

Major of Berlin, Willy Brandt, naming Lufthansa 707-430 D-ABOC "Berlin" on September 16th 1960. Berlin used to be Lufthansa's home base until WWII broke out which brought all civil flight traffic to a halt.
D-ABOC was operated by Lufthansa from 1960 until 1977. The plane was scrapped at Tripoli, Libya, in the early 1980's.

In 1986 Boeing donated a 707-400 with the same livery as the D-ABOC to Lufthansa, commemorating Lufthansas 60th Anniversary & the sale of plane #200. Unfortunately this plane is rotting @ TXL (Berlin Tegel). see link below (click photo in next post), There's only 3 fully operational 707-400 left, the one @ TXL is one of them. But not for long!

New Lufthansa Boing 707 D-ABOC 1960, originally uploaded by smokeonit.

Offical age of chinese child/teen olympic contestant gymnasiast

2008-08-21T07:28:00.000-07:00

i agree with the majority of people that children and teens should be kept out of the olympics since they need to be protected!

it looks like the chinese government is desperatly trying to cover up the scandal unfolding in the blogosphere... He Kexin (何可欣) is offically 16 years old, but in reality chinese government documents reveals that she's 2 yearts younger, making her inelegible to participate in the olympics!

blog by stryde hax regarding this topic

baidu (google china) cache revealing her true age #1040,"何可欣 ","女","1994-1-1",,,"武汉市","六城会交流"(her entry is #1040 in that html conversion from the already deleted original) this cache clearly show her true DOB as 1994-1-1, Jan 1st 1994, making her 14 years old!

second offical chinese government cache entry: #618,"何可欣","女","1994.1.1","湖北"

Obama in Berlin

2008-07-24T15:33:00.001-07:00

IMG_4390.JPG
Originally uploaded by querlink

the famous love parade used to take place here....

Obama in Berlin

2008-07-24T15:32:00.001-07:00

DSC09835
Originally uploaded by grex

Video wall with masses and the siegessäule.

the famous love parade used to take place here....

Obama in Berlin

2008-07-24T14:49:00.003-07:00

Obama in Berlin
Originally uploaded by smokeonit

Barack Obama speaks to 200000 in the heart of berlin.

I think this is a good sign for the relations between washington and berlin. after all, this have been very hard times for diplomats since the invasion of iraq.

germany was more than ok with the invasion of afghanistan since the taliban and al qaida were holding hostage the whole country and something had to be done.

in retrospective the german position on iraq was the right one and the US has and will continue to pay a hefty price for listening to a biased media influenced by people that believe the whole country should switch from darwin to creationism in their public schools....

Obama in Berlin

2008-07-24T14:49:00.001-07:00

Obama in Berlin
Originally uploaded by smokeonit

Barack Obama speaks to 200000 in the heart of berlin.

Obama in Berlin

2008-07-24T14:48:00.003-07:00

Obama in Berlin
Originally uploaded by smokeonit

Barack Obama speaks to 200000 in the heart of berlin.

Obama in Berlin

2008-07-24T14:48:00.001-07:00

Obama in Berlin
Originally uploaded by smokeonit

Barack Obama speaks to 200000 in the heart of berlin.

Waiting for the Rhine Ferry @ Grosskraftwerk (Powerplant) Mannheim

2008-07-24T13:26:00.001-07:00

Waiting for the Rhine Ferry @ Grosskraftwerk (Powerplant) Mannheim
Originally uploaded by smokeonit

took this shot while waiting for the ferry to come across the river.

Virgin America Coach.

2008-07-23T06:25:00.001-07:00

Google Maps Integration!
Originally uploaded by ms.flux

Coach on Virgin America with googlemaps navigation service.

Virgin America First Class

2008-07-22T17:00:00.001-07:00

Virgin America First Class
Originally uploaded by penner42

that's a cool find!

i think it's about time people get google maps on in flight entertainment systems!

iPhone WPS location (skyhookwireless)

2008-07-22T06:14:00.001-07:00

WPS location
Originally uploaded by smokeonit

About 5m off from actual location. 3 to 4 wifi stations available for getting the location fix.

Skyhookwireless does the data scanning for this t oactually work.

Coverage map

Submit an WiFi station that is not in their Database.

Old Google Maps Street View of Steve Jobs Parking lot @ his "house" in

2008-07-22T06:12:00.003-07:00

Old Google Maps Street View of Steve Jobs Parking lot @ his "house" in Palo Alto. Now empty! Damn...;-)
Originally uploaded by smokeonit

New Google Maps Street View of Steve Jobs Parking lot @ his house in Palo Alto.

no more SL in sight...

Old Google Maps Street View of Steve Jobs Parking lot @ his "house" in

2008-07-22T06:12:00.001-07:00

Old Google Maps Street View of Steve Jobs Parking lot @ his "house" in Palo Alto
Originally uploaded by smokeonit

Old Google Maps Street View of Steve Jobs Parking lot @ his house in Palo Alto.

google maps street view of location

TRINITY BOMB

2008-07-22T06:11:00.001-07:00

TRINITY BOMB
Originally uploaded by smokeonit

The first atomic bomb is readied for testing near Alamogordo, New Mexico, in July 1945.

iPhone 2G with iPhone osX 2.0 and tracking mode off

2008-07-22T05:30:00.003-07:00

iPhone 2G with iPhone osX 2.0 and tracking mode off
Originally uploaded by smokeonit

this shows the new feature and how to activate/deactivate it.

iPhone 2G with iPhone osX 2.0 and tracking mode on

2008-07-22T05:30:00.001-07:00

iPhone 2G with iPhone osX 2.0 and tracking mode on
Originally uploaded by smokeonit

this shows the new feature and how to activate/deactivate it.

TRINITY WRECKAGE

2008-07-22T05:28:00.001-07:00

TRINITY WRECKAGE
Originally uploaded by smokeonit

On July 16th 1945 the Trinity was the first nuclear bomb test known to mankind. The same type of bomb was dropped on Nagasaki weeks later. That bomb was named "Fat Man".... 20 kilotons of destructive force, nothing compared to the 80s/90s US and Soviet bombs that were waiting to bomb us back to the stone age...

Lost (ABC) Production Mistakes (Episode 413-414)

2008-07-22T05:23:00.001-07:00

Lost (ABC) Production Mistakes (Episode 413-414)
Originally uploaded by smokeonit

Production mistake in the last episode of season 4 of Lost.

In this shot the action doubles are doing a great job of standing in for the actors. But Hurley was not with them, instead it was decided that a puppet will do, LOL... and the pilot has the wrong beard color...

Lost (ABC) Production Mistakes (Episode 413-414)

2008-07-22T05:22:00.001-07:00

Lost (ABC) Production Mistakes (Episode 413-414)
Originally uploaded by smokeonit

Production mistake in the last episode of season 4 of Lost.

on the freighter there's 11 people on deck, but after the scene jump from the closeup to the wide shot there's only 2 people on deck.

Lost (ABC) Production Mistakes (Episode 413-414)

2008-07-22T05:21:00.001-07:00

Lost (ABC) Production Mistakes (Episode 413-414)
Originally uploaded by smokeonit

Production mistake in the last episode of season 4 of Lost.

on the freighter there's 11 people on deck, but after the scene jump from the closeup to the wide shot there's only 2 people on deck.

iPhone 2G Tracking in Google Maps

2008-07-22T05:16:00.003-07:00

iPhone 2G Tracking in Google Maps
Originally uploaded by smokeonit

the new trcking feature in iphone osX 2.0. works very well in my city! even though now GPS in the iphone 2G it kept my postion very accurate!

boycott a cartoon???

2006-02-02T13:23:00.000-08:00

is the islamic world crazy??? going nuts about a cartoon???

http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/?p=364
01/Feb/2006
Spain, Italy, and a Dutch MP post those cartoons
If only they hadn’t kicked up such a fuss in the first place.

The BBC reports that La Stampa in Italy, and El Periodico in Spain have both reprinted some of the offending Mo toons, joining Denmark, Norway, Germany and apparently Iceland in the stand for freedom of expression in Europe. The Die Welt editorial states:

The protests from Muslims would be taken more seriously if they were less hypocritical.

Meanwhile a Dutch MP Groep Wilders has published all 12 of the original Mo toons on his blog.

UPDATE: Dutch daily De Telegraaf has also published them.

UPDATE: The editor of France Soir has been sacked by his Coptic Christian boss, Raymond Lakah. Lakah said it was “as a powerful sign of respect for the intimate beliefs and convictions of every individual”.

battlestar galactica - is admiral cain gonna survive the next episode?

2005-09-25T11:20:00.000-07:00

it looks like rumors have it that model #6 will kill cain in the next episode... or will the XO kill her??? anyway, bummer that this episode will air in january....

Invasion episode 101

2005-09-25T10:58:00.000-07:00

i find this to be an interesting premiere, i hope that in the next episodes the story will get more and more intersting... the series has a lot of potential...

Battlestar Galactica - the new cyclon in episode 208

2005-09-16T02:18:00.000-07:00

is it just me, or is the new cyclon model very similar to the blond "gaius baltar" model? from when "it" was introduced in episode 208 i thought to myself something is wrong about that character, 1st i thought she looks very much like the model that is spooking in gaius' head and causes all the commotion on caprica... any thoguhts on my comment? thnx in advance...

167GB download a month...

2005-09-15T18:34:00.000-07:00

this is my 3rd month with 6mbit DSL. my average monthly download went up from 50-80GB to 100-170GB a month. would be nice to hear from others how there download habits changed...?

Consult the Dictionary trick in osX for Safari and Mail

2005-09-01T17:19:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite little secrets in Tiger is the Dictionary/Thesaurus pop-up window that appears in applications such as Safari and Mail. Simply hover your cursor over any word and press apple-control-D to bring up a small window with the word’s definition. If you keep the control and Command keys pressed, you can then mouse over other words to see their dictionary or thesaurus entries as well. You can even highlight just part of a word (embark from disembarkation, for instance) to get the definition of a word within a word, or a part of a compound word (such as science from science fiction)

how to create easy passwords with keychain access in osX

2005-09-01T17:03:00.000-07:00

it's so easy to create secure passwords, and there's no internet connection needed. it's built right into osX. just open the utilities folder, then keychain access utility, then hit the + button on the bottom. when this window opens, just hit the key tab and the utility window opens, which lets you choose the type of password, for example memorable, it will choose words that are easy to remember and will put in a number that is also not to difficult to remember. pretty neat, don't you think;-)

1st entry on blogger.com

2005-09-01T14:51:00.000-07:00

let's see if i can keep psoting regular entries to my blog. i haven't meade up my mind what exactly i will cover and how often i will post... so let's see how things turn out...