March 31, 200916 yr 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!"
March 31, 200916 yr "and unlike the A380, there are no restrictions on what goes on in your cabin." WTF?
March 31, 200916 yr "You'll have the opportunity to fly the most unnecessary and ridiculous looking flying machine ever built!" (insert your own osprey joke here)
March 31, 200916 yr Do you think the emergency passenger briefings will include the Gideon Bibles in the hotelicopter night-stands?
March 31, 200916 yr "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...
March 31, 200916 yr 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
March 31, 200916 yr 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
March 31, 200916 yr 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, 200916 yr by yerfer
March 31, 200916 yr 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.
March 31, 200916 yr I was trying to figure out why they used the NOAA hanger as the background. Oh well guess it was all a joke.
March 31, 200916 yr While it's not actually a flying hotel, the real thing was almost as impressive... Mike
April 1, 200916 yr 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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