Great Smoke Breaks, Around the World
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Great Smoke Breaks, Around the World
Surely thats got to rank as a 'great smoke break'?
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I was at a skydiving meet once and, along with a friend, ambled over to admire an aging DC3 sitting on the ramp.
We noticed a haggard, been there, done that sort of chap, standing near the MLG hosing it up and down with what looked like (because it was) a bug sprayer. Pump pump pump squirt suirt squirt (that's the bug sprayer of course).
"I say" I said "Watcha doing?"
Without looking at us, he took the lit cigarette out of his mouth and said "I'm cleaning all the soot and oil of the undercarriage"
"Really." I responded What with?"
He turned and looked at us through the haze of droplets, his cigarette a dull glow behind the cloud and said "Gasoline"
Without looking at each other yet with the coordination of an olympic synchronised swim team, we both took one very large step backwards.
We noticed a haggard, been there, done that sort of chap, standing near the MLG hosing it up and down with what looked like (because it was) a bug sprayer. Pump pump pump squirt suirt squirt (that's the bug sprayer of course).
"I say" I said "Watcha doing?"
Without looking at us, he took the lit cigarette out of his mouth and said "I'm cleaning all the soot and oil of the undercarriage"
"Really." I responded What with?"
He turned and looked at us through the haze of droplets, his cigarette a dull glow behind the cloud and said "Gasoline"
Without looking at each other yet with the coordination of an olympic synchronised swim team, we both took one very large step backwards.
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Originally Posted by The Helpful Stacker
Where's that picture of the two RAF Plods having a tab whilst standing in a puddle of Avtur spilt from a multiple pile-up in Iraq?
Surely thats got to rank as a 'great smoke break'?
Surely thats got to rank as a 'great smoke break'?
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SirPeterHardingsLovechild - Thats the one.
Hey, they're getting the same rate of pay as technicians now those bright chaps.
Obviously their investigative/self-preservation skills are a little on the low side though.
Plod1 - "Whats that smell?"
Plod2 - "Well its the fuel in'it."
Plod1 - "Ohhhh {pause} fancy a tab?"
Perhaps the lack of Airdog Rover explains for their poor choice of smoking location, dogs being after all the brain on a chain.
Hey, they're getting the same rate of pay as technicians now those bright chaps.
Obviously their investigative/self-preservation skills are a little on the low side though.
Plod1 - "Whats that smell?"
Plod2 - "Well its the fuel in'it."
Plod1 - "Ohhhh {pause} fancy a tab?"
Perhaps the lack of Airdog Rover explains for their poor choice of smoking location, dogs being after all the brain on a chain.
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...actually, an old hairy crew chief used to routinely demonstrate to us young 'uns that AVTUR is extremely difficult to light casually - it needed a hefty high temp flame/spark.
How?
He used to stub out cigarettes in it...
How?
He used to stub out cigarettes in it...
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Originally Posted by FJJP
...actually, an old hairy crew chief used to routinely demonstrate to us young 'uns that AVTUR is extremely difficult to light casually - it needed a hefty high temp flame/spark.
How?
He used to stub out cigarettes in it...
How?
He used to stub out cigarettes in it...
Last year we were routinely receiving fuel from CONLOG's (as pictured above burnt-out) into the BFI at Basrah that was around the mid to high 50oC's. As the flashpoint (temperature at which a substance will produce a vapour capable of ignition) of Avtur is 38oC the fuel was already well into the realms of 'don't put cigarettes out in it' territory.
Yes I have seen the "look you can put cigarettes out in it" test myself, but it was in a test lab at West Moors when I was doing my Pet Lab course and oh, it was bloody freezing.
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Perhaps Its Time...
Perhaps Its Time...
to bin this thread before Chrissy sees it.
SCROGGS just do it!
(For those who don't know, George only recently died, leaving behind a widow and 2 young(ish) children).
to bin this thread before Chrissy sees it.
SCROGGS just do it!
(For those who don't know, George only recently died, leaving behind a widow and 2 young(ish) children).
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Originally Posted by FJJP
...actually, an old hairy crew chief used to routinely demonstrate to us young 'uns that AVTUR is extremely difficult to light casually - it needed a hefty high temp flame/spark.
How?
He used to stub out cigarettes in it...
How?
He used to stub out cigarettes in it...
--but was more p££sed off by the fact he had missed 2 out 4 days gliding over the Easter grant as a result of their "experiment". 
