Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:59 am
Noha307 wrote:
"These Fokkers were flying Messerschmitts"
Apparently, the joke came to prominence when a comic named Stan Boardman told it on a television show hosted by Des O'Connor.
Tue Oct 19, 2021 6:57 pm
Mon Nov 15, 2021 8:41 pm
Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:31 pm
Thu Jan 20, 2022 11:49 pm
Fri Jan 21, 2022 5:47 am
Noha307 wrote:The Dreaded 7 Engine Approach
This story about the pilot of a single engine jet fighter who ends up behind a B-52 is mentioned on an Airliners.net thread in April 2001.
The Fighter and the Bomber/Cargo Plane
This one is hard to research as the keywords that would help with the search - the type of airplanes involved - are updated to match the current generation of aircraft with each new generation. However, it usually involves a fighter being shown up by the pilot of a multi-engine airplane (commonly a B-52) who, while initially appearing to do nothing, uses the large size of his aircraft to "stretch [his] legs, [get] some coffee, [and go] to the bathroom". Other versions involve the latter shutting down two engines. One version found on a forum dates back to December 2003. The fact that the same story appears in a newspaper only four days later may point to when it entered the public consciousness.
Fri Jan 21, 2022 1:33 pm
Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:17 pm
quemerford wrote:Queen of the Skies: always (in my experience) applied to the VC-10 but since appropriated by less worthy types. Was there one before the VC-10? I'm thinking that one of the Empire boats must have been given this moniker?
Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:28 pm
JohnB wrote:I'm From the FAA and I'm Here to Help.
That has been around the military seemingly forever.
Just substitute the FAA with "IG".
Sun Jan 23, 2022 8:57 am
quemerford wrote:And "Streamlined" always seemed a bit more of a qualified statement than the lazy term "aerodynamic". I suspect that 'streamlined' was a 'fifties term, but 'aerodynamic' seems to be a fairly recent development.
Mon Feb 07, 2022 2:07 pm
Mon Jul 25, 2022 7:28 pm
Karl Ort wrote:I just located a thousand new war time propellers. The
price was low. I bought. Now you can buy these real
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Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:37 pm
Mon Mar 06, 2023 2:40 pm
Commercial Appeal wrote:Slight Mishaps Cause Many
Wrecks of Noted Aviators
Eddie Stinson Says Good Landing One You Can Walk
Away From-Commander Rodgers Victim of Wreck
In Comparative Safe Location After Passing Through
Far Worse Dangers
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-Eddie Stinson, man of nerve, professional
flyer of vast experience and skill, a trifle sardonic by nature, once was
asked to give his view upon the difficult business of landing an airplane.
A group of aviators had been discussing the dangers that face every pilot
as his ship nears the earth.
"A good landing," said Eddie shortly, "is when you can walk away
from it."
The phrase has become part of the philosophy of the air service of
the Army and Navy, in the air mail and among professional or commer-
cial pilots. Eddie Stinson knew what he was talking about. He has
walked away from landings where unassisted locomotion had seemed
impossible. He has come twisting down out of storm clouds into small
fields hemmed with stone fences. The night has had slight terrors for
him. He was the only pilot, among a score or so, who maneuvered to a
resting place in the tragic Ohio field where a year ago the Shenandoah
lay dead.
Many of the men who have died in airplane accidents were killed
because they failed to make good landings. The average aviator is safe
if he is high in the air. But as his plane begins to circle toward the
earth the peril increases. The human equation-the chance of a mistake
-assumed an appalling importance. The mistake made a few hundred
feet above the ground is usually fatal.
Instruction Manual [for] Pratt & Whitney Engines R[-]1830-43 & 65 wrote:THE BUMBLEBEE
CANNOT FLY
According to the theory of aerodynam-
ics, and as may be readily demonstrated
through experimetns, the bumblebee is
unable to fly. This is because the size,
the weight, and the shape of his body,
in relation to his wingspread, make
flying impossible.
But the bumblebee, being
ignorant of these scientific
truths, goes ahead and flies
anyway-and makes a little
honey every day.
Tue Mar 07, 2023 7:12 pm