A Huey Cobra practicing autorotations during a military night training
exercise had a problem and landed on the tail rotor, separating the
tailboom.
Fortunately, it wound up on its skids, sliding down the runway doing 360s
in a brilliant shower of sparks. As the Cobra passed the tower, the
following exchange was overheard:
Tower: "Sir, do you need any assistance?"
Cobra: "I don't know, tower. We ain't done crashin' yet!"
Paul
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 13:27:47 -0500 "BOLIN, TIMOTHY" <TBOLIN@scana.com>
writes:
>david
>
>i worked for eastern and had quite a laugh when aircraft would taxi
>int the
>gate with a rubber chicken hanging off the windshield wipers or a capt
>usiing a water gun out of his sliding window but the beat was a pilot
>would
>don a leather flying helmet goggles scarf and yes even a parachute and
>enter
>thru the rear airstairs walkthru the a/c while reading a how to fly
>book
>
>boy i kinda miss those days
>
>tim
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Ramsey [mailto:dwramsey@worldnet.att.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 12:39 PM
>To: Wiedemeyer
>Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: In-flight humor (No LBC)
>
>
>Bob, I worked for Western Airlines in Reno in the early 70's. One
>day a
>man came up to the counter and I sold him his ticket, he then went
>over to
>check his bag and I did that also. When he came to the gate to get on
>the
>plane, yep I took his ticket. He took two steps toward the plane and
>turned
>around and said "if your flying the plane I'm not going"!
> Another time a blind lady was going through Reno and didn't
>want to
>get off the plane so asked if somebody could walk her dog. The Pilot
>said
>sure he could do it for her. You should have seen the look on the
>boarding
>passengers faces, when they saw the pilot doing his walk-around to
>check the
>plane with a seeing eye dog.
> And my all time favorite was when bored at night I would pick up
>the PA
>mike and say "Would all passengers that have not yet done so, please
>do so
>immediately."
> Crash
>
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