Guest Jpilot Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 I really don't see this working... The World's First Flying Hotel -J
Gas Man Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 That's an expensive way to join the mile high club.
Guest ski&fly fast Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 Wow that's awesome, but who can actually afford to cruise around in this thing?
nsplayr Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 Wow...I wonder if they're looking to hire pilots. "You'll have the opportunity to fly the most unnecessary and ridiculous looking flying machine ever built!"
Guest JollyFlight21 Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 (edited) Where do I sign up? Edited March 31, 2009 by JollyFlight21
Jenkspaz Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 What in the blue fvck is the "Hotelicopter Trapeze School?"
usaf36031 Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 "and unlike the A380, there are no restrictions on what goes on in your cabin." WTF?
drewpey Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 "You'll have the opportunity to fly the most unnecessary and ridiculous looking flying machine ever built!" (insert your own osprey joke here)
jice Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 Do you think the emergency passenger briefings will include the Gideon Bibles in the hotelicopter night-stands?
Guest Jpilot Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 "You'll have the opportunity to fly the most unnecessary and ridiculous looking flying machine ever built!" I heard they were considering it for the CSAR-X competition...
Guest Krabs Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 Maybe the ShamWow dude finally has a place where he can do his thing without the cops interrupting. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/27/v...c_n_180210.html
MKopack Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 Wow, what an amazing idea - how about we float these people a couple of billion in stimulus money? "Hotelicopter: it’s like a cruise, but through the air" I've flown on several helicopters in the past - none of which were even remotely like a 'cruise through the air'. Day before April 1st, anyone? Mike
yerfer Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 (edited) Wait till this thing crashes. I can just imagine it. Headline news. Lil Wayne, dead in helicopter crash while him and his home boys were partying aboard the latest hotelicopter. Amongst the guests was Donald Trump who was saved by his extra soft bed that cushioned the impact upon crashing. He managed to escape the flying hotel with severe burns. Can you imagine crashing in this thing? Edited March 31, 2009 by yerfer
Guest PerArduaAdAstra Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 It would have been a little funnier if it had actually been released tomorrow. Not a lot funnier, but a little. Wired.com Hotelicopter Hoax Flies Over Bloggers' Heads There's a sucker born every minute, and they're all buying the "hotelicopter" story, ahem, flying around the blogosphere. Several websites, including some that should know better, are reporting that a guy named Alvin Farley has spent five years converting the world's largest helicopter into the world's first flying hotel. The modified Soviet Mil V-12 helicopter is 137 feet long and features 16 cabins and two suites decked out with queen-size beds, heated toilets and whirlpools. The flying five-star hotel makes its inaugural flight June 26. Thing is, the story has a few holes big enough to fly the Hotelicopter through. First, the Mil V-12 is a real helicopter, but there's no way Farley bought one. The Soviets only built two. One crashed in 1968. The other currently sits in a museum in Moscow. We have the pictures to prove it. Second, the interior shots of the Hotelicopter were lifted straight from Yotel, the chain of hotels that offers tiny accommodations at European airports. We tried to track Farley down, but couldn't reach him by phone or e-mail. That only strengthens our case — you'd think someone drumming up publicity for a venture like this would make it easy for journalists to get ahold of him. We suspect the only "updates" the site will send those who sign up for the e-mail alerts will be an "April Fool's" message on Wednesday. The only thing funnier than the 38-second video of the "test flight" is the fact so many people fell for the joke.
Guest Unconfirmed Source Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 I was trying to figure out why they used the NOAA hanger as the background. Oh well guess it was all a joke.
MKopack Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 While it's not actually a flying hotel, the real thing was almost as impressive... Mike
Container STS Posted April 1, 2009 Posted April 1, 2009 Maybe the ShamWow dude finally has a place where he can do his thing without the cops interrupting. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/27/v...c_n_180210.html ShamPOW!..Right in the kissa!
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