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For starters, it wasn't an easy search. It took me almost half an hour, and I'm damn good at it. I knew from the lighting that it was a careful professional photo, not something taken secretly from some pocket flash job or something, so I figured it was from whatever organization had modified the plane. I knew from a number of details that it wasn't a NASA plane (at least any I was familiar with) or a military one. A little background in aircraft design allowed me to narrow it down to the point where I could locate pictures at Boeing of a test airplane that cinched it, down to the tags on the ceiling and the yellow vests.

The barrels threw me a bit, too--I had first figured them for something to do with cooling electronics although that made no sense the more I thought about it. I appreciated Lindy finding the answer, and I learned something to boot.

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