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Ned Simmons wrote:

My favorite was the article on how to build your own airliner, legal
for passenger service in a few South American countries, using
discarded Electroluxes as turbine engines. On second thought, maybe
that was in Mad Magazine's "Popular Scientific Mechanics" parody...

Maybe not. Ever fly in a DC9? I swear those things were powered by
Electrolux or maybe Hoover.