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The Amazing Race 14 Speculation on Spoilers
apskip:
Something has been bothering me in regard to the Siberian cities that were probably involved in AR14. It is the eyewitness report of seeing Phil in Delhi airport either in the early hours of Saturday Nov.15 or the early hours of Sunday Nov. 16(it is not clear to me which although maybe something else can clarify this). Why this is important is because with the ultimate destination of Phuket and the intermediate transit point of Bangkok we need a resonable path to get both Phil there and the teams there on time on Nov. 16. So, how do you get from Siberia to Bangkok and from Siberia to Delhi to Bangkok?
When I examine the possible routes with minimum flying times it narrows quickly down to Moscow. It is easy for the teams to get to Bangkok. They have to get SVO BKK SU553 1940 0905+1 , then BKK HKT TG1205 1030 1150. The problem is with Phil, because he would not want to be traveling with the teams. My guess is that he has a 36 hour lead due to an extended rest stop. So what would that allow him to do? One possibility is to get to Moscow(to be addressed below) on Nov. 14 in time for SU555 SVO DEL 1850 0330+1, connecting with DEL BKK TG724 1155 1725 and then with BKK HKT TG223 1820 1940. To do this he must have been unable to get the Moscow to Bangkok flight SU553 on Nov. 14, which should have been his first choice but could have been full.
The next question is how teams could get to Moscow-Sheremetyevo for these connections. Here are the possiblities that fit(although all have long connect times in Moscow):
Best is Irkutsk IKT SVO SU748 1400 1525
Novosibirsk OVB SVO 5N808 1055 1210
Krasnojarsk KJA SVO SU782 1040 1145
Ulan Ude UUD DME S7116 0840 1105 Note: this one goes to Domodedovo airport; ground transportation is required to get to Sheremetyevo airport, probably about 2 hours away by taxi.
If anyone else can solve the puzzle of Phil in Delhi airport, then speak up. One possibility is that teams were in Siberia around Nov. 9/10 but moved on to one or two other places down toward Delhi on the way to Bangkok. I would love for one of those places to be Kathmandu.
ZBC Company:
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Dånooky:
--- Quote from: apskip on January 09, 2009, 09:18:12 AM ---(...)The problem is with Phil, because he would not want to be traveling with the teams. (...)
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Although they try to keep Phil ahead of the teams, I remember having read that there's been several times when Phil travels in the same flight with the contestants (albeit in First Class), so perhaps this is the case?
Coutzy:
That's very possible.
It happens more often than most think (Including in some cases, such as TAR 7, the final leg)
So it sounds like a distinct possibility.
harley:
Regarding the jet engine from Phil's picture:
My brother flies 757s and 767s, so I asked him to take a look. According to him, it could be a 757 or possibly a 737 engine. He doesn't usually do the walk-around and there are several different engines certified to be used for 757s. He 's fairly sure that it's not a Rolls Royce engine, but thinks it might be a Pratt & Whitney with a small possibility that it's a GE. He said he could tell better if he could see the cone that Phil is blocking. He's pretty positive the engine is not from the military plane because he thinks those engines are actually bigger than the one in Phil's picture.
The little gizmo just under Phil's right hand is an air inflow sensor. There's another one on the back of the engine that measures the air outflow and combined this gives a reading of how much thrust the engine is producing.
He thought the picture could have been an engine at a maintenance facility (the engine would be detached from the plane and easier to get to - and easier for a picture to be made); or it could be a prop from a studio lot; or possibly a privately-owned jet (there's a private 757 at the Burbank airport that parks next to where my brother parks when they land that is available to be leased). Or as one poster mentioned, it could be from a museum.
OK. Way too much info, I know. You just can't shut up me or my brother when we're talking about things we're into.
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