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Oh yeah QSL with that, I mean I've got a friend who's a farmer and he's got a huge tractor he's just bought, I think it cost him a half a million of our pounds. It's huge monstrous tractor and it's so accurate with its GPS and it drives itself, you plug in the, it maps the field to the inch and then it will cloud the field, you're just sitting there as ballast and it takes the thing down to the local bar and he has a drink and he pushes the button and the tractor takes him home and he wakes up in the farm yard in the tractor, the tractor's done its job. But I've got another interesting pal who's, he's spent his life flying disabled aircraft around the world. If a 747 develops a fault in shall we say India or it's got one engine gone in India he will go there and fly all the way back to the States to Boeing on three engines and that's what he's made a whole living of and he's earned an awful lot of money, he's done his school in Stratton Ritchie is his name but he has made an entire career of flying damaged aircraft around the world back to factories or suitable repair facilities. So yeah there's a whole industry around the things going wrong, it doesn't get me wrong with his mechanics, we've got radios but sometimes they go wrong too and it's all about everything risk, I think you can do the best you can to mitigate the risk, build it out and make the risk as low as possible, over. Oh wow, I never really thought about that before, what happens to aircraft when they're not suitable to fly to the general public, do they just fix them on the runway or do you say they fly them back to Boeing or another facility, wow, so they intentionally take to the skies in a craft that's not really fit to be transformed passengers, wow, that's a whole other adrenaline rush altogether there because you know you've got an issue right out of the gate.

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