Aircraft pics

[Dog427435]

[b]Aviation Philosophy







The difference between a duck and a co-pilot?
The duck can fly.




A check ride ought to be like a skirt.
Short enough to be interesting, but long enough to cover everything.


Speed is life. Altitude is life insurance.


It only takes two things to fly:
Airspeed and money.


The three most dangerous things in aviation:
1. A Doctor or Dentist in a Beechcraft.
2. Two captains in a DC-9.


Aircraft Identification:
If it's ugly, it's British.
If it's weird, it's French.
If it's ugly and weird, it's Russian.


Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another very expensive flying club.


The similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots?
If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies.
If ATC screws up, the pilot dies.


The difference between airline pilots and jet engines:
The engines usually quit whining when they get to the gate.



New FAA motto:
'We're not happy, 'til you're not happy.'


If something hasn't broken on your helicopter -- it's about to.


Basic Flying Rules:
1. Try to stay in the middle of the air.
2. Do not go near the edges of it.
3. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly in the edges.


Unknown landing signal officer (LSO) to carrier pilot after his 6th unsuccessful landing attempt:
"You've got to land here, son. This is where the food is."

The three best things in life are:
A good landing, a good orgasm, and a good bowel movement.
A night carrier landing is one of the few opportunities to experience all three at the same time.

[Dog427435]

[b]I guess the passengers of flight 1549 got a sad dose of reality upon landing in the Hudson last week!

[NewportNic]

Any one know anything about C H Biggs?

Pure was an East of the Mississippi company, was he a traffic reporter?

[The Dude]

For the win.....

http://public.fotki.com/Kos/members_...d=fs_slideshow

[427TJ]

[ QUOTE ]
[b]I guess the passengers of flight 1549 got a sad dose of reality upon landing in the Hudson last week!




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That's not a raft, it's the escape slide that can double as a raft. There are slides on the rear doors too but some dip-s**t passenger opened a rear door and that began the rapid flooding of the cabin. Second, there are preservers under every seat and if the passengers had listened to the boarding safety announcement they would have known to grab their preservers as they left their seats. Captain Sully actually went back inside and grabbed several preservers from under the seats and tossed as many as he could to passengers on the wings. Those passengers have nothing whatsoever to complain about: they ignored (as they always do) the safety briefing and still lived through a water landing.

[mockingbird812]

"Importance of the Thunderbolt airplane"...

[L72COPO]

Fascinating film of air warfare training. Takes 48 minutes to watch but worth it. Got it from Cumby

http://www.hulu.com:80/watch/24197/f...ation-red-flag

Don

[COPO 70 RS/Z28]

Thunder bolt

My favorite of all time!!!!!!

[mockingbird812]

What a thumper of a workhorse it was. Plenty of firepower. Could dish it out and take it as well.


P.S. anybody notice my number of posts.... <font color="red">4346 </font>





Holley 780 for L78/89/72

[427TJ]

I showed my 9 year-old son the 1944 film "Thunderbolt" recently and he loved it. Lots of gun camera footage and train strafing with nice explosions. My son couldn't believe that most of the pilots were 22-24 years old with the "old man" of the fighter group being 25.