Editing 2774: Taxiing

{{comic
| number    = 2774
| date      = May 10, 2023
| title     = Taxiing
| image     = taxiing_2x.png
| imagesize = 399x431px
| noexpand  = true
| titletext = I don't understand why anyone would pay full price for a flatbed truck rental when you can buy 'DETOUR' signs online for like $10.
}}

==Explanation==
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[[File:A Polish airman marshals a U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules aircraft March 13, 2014, at Lask Air Base, Poland 140313-F-BH566-088.jpg|thumb|400px| A marshaller marshalling. (From Wikimedia Commons)]]
In this comic, [[Cueball]] is acquiring an airplane by directing it with marshaling wands onto a ramp that leads onto a trailer, so he can presumably drive away with it. Thus, he wonders why anyone would buy a plane, when those "glowing wand things" can be bought cheaply on the internet.

{{w|Aircraft marshalling|Marshallers}} stand on the runway and use marshaling wands to direct planes around while they are taxiing. Cueball is using glowing wand things to hijack a plane and direct it into a trailer, where it will presumably be locked up and taken somewhere else with the plane claimed. The caption claims that paying "full price" for an airplane (buying one normally) is ridiculous when the wand things that allow you to direct planes to where you want them to go are about $30 online.

This may be illegal.{{citation needed}} However, empirical evidence is rather slim in this regard, and, as such, it is not entirely clear if this is correct. Any person who is willing should attempt to gather further empirical evidence to this end.

The title text mentions doing a similar thing, but with detour signs rather than glow wands and flatbed trucks rather than planes. It seems Cueball used this tactic to obtain the truck he is loading the airplane onto.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball is waiving two orange sticks in the air, one in each hand. They are glowing as indicated with small orange lines all around the orange part. The handle he holds them by is black. Cueball is pointing one stick to the left where, behind him, is a ramp that extends beyond the panel. The other stick is held up in front of his face and he looks up onto the front end of a large plane. Only a small part of the plane is visible, mainly the very tip with just a bit of the window into the cockpit shown. The underside of the tip is gray, the rest is white with the window in black.]
:Cueball: ...Keep going...
:Cueball: ...Slightly left...
:Cueball: ...Okay, good...you're lined up with the ramp...
:Cueball: ...Now pull forward slowly up onto the trailer...

:[Caption below the panel:]
:I don't understand why anyone would pay full price for an airplane when you can buy those glowing wand things online for like $30.

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