On this episode of Av Talk, we celebrate our 50th episode and the 50th anniversary of the Boeing 747.

We discuss aviation's role in ending the U.S. government shutdown,

how British Airways is celebrating its centenary, and we see if anyone wants to buy an abandoned MD 87. Hello and welcome to episode 50 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchnick here for the 49th time with...

Jason Nurbinowitz. Hello, so I've been here 49 out of 50 times.

That's pretty good.

That's not bad. That's still I think you get like a little metal or something

Passing great. We'll have to work up and hand out but yeah 50 episodes. How about? Yeah, we should celebrate by doing absolutely nothing special.

Well, well, the plan was to celebrate and have some folks on that we've had in the past

and some new folks folks but because we're

celebrating our 50th episode in the middle of winter and the weather is terrible

and all of this stuff is happening people weren't they said no

they just said outright said no thank you they just said I can't do it for various reasons.

The worst excuse anyone gave us was, I can't, I will be on a plane.

And I said, come on.

So here we are celebrating 50 episodes in in 50 degree

minus 50 degree weather or at least I am not so white that cold here yet.

Well, the wind chill is creeping down that low again tonight.

So it's fun.

It was, we got up to minus 14 here today in Chicago.

It's a bummy.

That's fair.

10 degrees here in Brooklyn feels like negative 3.

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