Hey Coleface
Imagine if you will. Long…very long ferry flight in an S61 helicopter. Two pilots and an engineer. Vancouver to Bombay. This particular day/leg was somewhere out of Iceland for Aberdeen. My co-captain and I had agreed that we should , if we felt the need , take turns at taking a “micro nap”. This I did.
As we were flying over water (very cold water) we were wearing immersion suits. Somewhat similar to wearing a full body condom with rubber seals at wrist and neck.
Back to my micro nap….after about 30 minutes , I was brought back to consciousness by the noise and cold air of my partner’s window opening , then the shock as I looked at him to find that he had physically expanded to the size of the “Michelin Man”.!
Silly buggar had shoved his arm out the window , pulled the wrist seal away from his wrist and allowed the inrushing air to inflate his immersion suit. He sat there with a stupid grin on his face while I struggled back from the”land of nod” thinking that I was having some sort of nightmare.
Wish to hell I had a camera.
I laughed so hard it kept me awake for the rest of the leg.
He knows of whom I speak !!!
Peter
