Posted on 12/10/2004 2:44:08 PM PST by CHARLITE
One day the tower received a call from an aircraft asking, "What time is it?"
The tower responded, "Who is calling?"
The aircraft replied, "What difference does it make?"
The tower replied "It makes a lot of difference:
If it is an American Airlines flight, its 3PM.
If it is Air Force, its 1500 hours.
If it is a Navy aircraft, its 6 bells.
If it is an Army aircraft, Mickey's big hand is on the 12 and Mickey's little hand is on the 3.
If it is a Marine Corps aircraft, its Thursday afternoon."
I got a chance to see how the BAE workers made the thrust nozzles on the AV-8s while over there. This is the globe shaped device that rotates to direct the thrust in different directions. The guys, by hand, were hammering the metal on these big wooden shapes forming them as they went. That was over twenty years ago so there is no telling if they ever found a better way of doing it to improve cost and schedule.
Ah... The dashing ALCMs. I built the arm switch and the sep switch for quite a few of those buggers...
The A-10 should NEVER crash...
Reeve Aleutian Airways (RAA) was famous for operating in all types of weather out on the Aleutian chain.
One stormy night the pilots of an incoming flight radioed in with a request that the runway lights be turned on. The tower frantically replied that the airport was closed due to severe weather conditions.
The pilot replied that they already landed; they needed the runway lights/taxi lights on so they could find their way to the hangar.
In my plane... if the I can fly her again tomorrow - that's a GREAT landing!
She lands faster than most others fly - plus, you land blind... so, if you don't hit anything - you're happy.
;-)
Unnngh!
I've never understood why folks are afraid to fly. Way I see it, I'd much rather make a crater than choke on a stick of gum while getting a hair cut. Old saying is, the trick to never dying is to be killed.
I never heard the seagull story, but it could be true. The ECM gear was quite potent. I doubt that an EA-6B ever shut down power on the eastern seaboard, but they used to inadvertently pick up the radio and TV stations in the Seattle area from their range in the Pacific Northwest and put them out of business until the equipment was turned off. So I can believe that they would shut down communications.
It is truly an incredible aircraft.
lol Bump so I can find this thread later. This is hilarious stuff.
Give him a kiss behind the hangars.
[hangers]
He'll tell you.
Re the MIGS in the corridors.I was the USAF rep in the Berlin Air Safety Centre which gave approval to all flights in the corridors and the Berlin Control Zone. On a flight from Frankfurt to Berlin a MIG pulled up on my wing and flew formation with me. I called Berlin Control and told them to contact BASC and tell the Soviet rep to call Scharnhorst Airfield where the MIGs were controlled from and tell him to get the hell off my wing. He left and when I got back to the BASC I spoke to the Soviet rep who told me that they had no aircraft in my vicinity at the time I reported. The next day I gave the Russian Colonel who was their senior commander a 8 by 10 photo of the MIG with all its markings and asked him to contact the pilots commander and have him grounded as he was evidently lost and incompetent and therefore a hazard to all other aircraft. Funny, I never got an answer!!
<< ,,, how do you know when there's a pilot at your party?
He'll tell you. >>
Earth People all look so puny from up here.
,,, pilots? They do so much so that airlines can make so little. :)
I doubt the EA-6B "seagull" story. When I worked on E-2C's, the "Weight-on-wheels" switch would prevent the radar from transmitting through the antenna while on deck. (The radar was equipped with a fluid cooled dummy load, so they could transmit into it.) The WOW switch could be bypassed with the "Battle Short" switch but this was normally shear-wired to prevent inappropriate use and to indicate that it had been used.
<< ,,, pilots? They do so much so that airlines can make so little. :) >>
Back in the good old days, when Pilots and other enthusiastic Aviation Professionals ran the airlines and right up until the Peter Principled bureaucratic beancounters who comprise today's airline "management" oozed into the scene, dragging with them the millions of tennis-shoed tank-topped travellers attracted by them to the airline travel they cannot afford and do not pay enough for -- and forced into our flight decks the pilot-costumed low bidder quaota hires that these days substitute for the Pilots we used to know and put into our passenger compartments the cabin poofters who ponce about back there in place of the professional Stewards and Stewardesses who not so long ago used to carve the roast -- in Coach -- Air Lines made planeloads of dough!
Despite the fact that GA aircraft are totally unable to cause any damage, weighing less than most cars and trucks on the road...
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