During a party a mate's wife mentioned (while she was very drunk) that the funniest thing she'd seen in a long time was her hubby wearing g pants - and nothing else! I'm not quite sure why he was just wearing g pants, but I don't think he was about to play Microsoft Flight Sim 2002;)

A mate's wife. Hmm - of course it was, eh Dan? Oooh yes....

I once heard that some F4 driver had been seen carting his AR5 off to his car. "Taking it home to show the wife what we have to put up with during TACEVALs, eh?" he was asked. "Err, no. She...errr, rather likes me to wear it in the bedroom", he replied!

If all you are looking to do is breathe through the mask just disconnect the hose and leave it dangling. That's what you have to do in the Tucano sim because it doesn't have an oxy system unlike the aircraft and it works fine

Allow me to help as I have some experience in these matters garnered during those hot summer days in the Sudan…

For the sake of nothing more than a certain element of style that will certainly impress the ladies at such a soirée as you describe, dispense with the banality of the gentex visor and opt for a cashmere scarf draped casually around the collar that could be rearranged in a trice to shield the eyes from anything unseemly. Alternatively, you could face in another direction…

I have never much cared for the gewgaws of green or yellow visors, preferring to have a transparent reservoir filled with Chartreuse of the appropriate hue and secured to the forehead, when filtration is no longer required, a swift suck on a well placed straw will return your vision to normality (for about 15 minutes as I recall).

The power of the fan you seek is 7 (although in the good old days it used to be just a gnat’s short of 9, damn that EU and it’s namby-pamby ways). I have found that the air-cooling system from a 1967 VW microbus, such as one might find abandoned about 46 miles west of Marrakesh on the old camel trail toward the garden of unearthly delight that is the coastal settlement of Essaouira, does the trick quite well. Simply pass the exhaust through a couple of hookahs (nasty business when I first misheard those instructions, I still wake up sweating) and you will have enough breathable air to blow a gerbil clean off a ping-pong table. Worth doing just for the look on the little blighter’s face!

Anyway, good luck old fellow, I honestly have no idea what you’re going on about but you seem a decent sort, couldn’t lend us a fiver ‘till the weekend, only gone and logged on without me wallet see and it’s hellish hot, could just do with a swift one to banish a couple of demons, go on…

BEags, wasn't Mrs Winterland - honest! She much prefered the leg restraints ;)

I'm just wondering what my mate did with the hose loose end? :uhoh:

Hopefully nothing involving gerbils and a lighted match?

On our Vulcan crew was a pratt who would always wander about with his Air Ventilated Suit hose dangling around like a horse's willy. So one day he was pinned down in thw scruffs' bar and someone poured a pint of beer down the hose - it came out of every suit orifice!

Errr - what did Mrs W do with the leg-stranglers then, eh Dan??

Splendid
 

I'd just like to take a moment to congratulate Mr M Drop on a fine piece of Pprunery. Made I titter somewhat.

Chartreuse and microbus though? Strangely reminiscent of the lyrics of C W McCall's much undermaligned "Convoy".....

Are they related? I think we should be told....

:E

Mal Drop
Do I know you?
From very northern climes?

LAN = Computer parlance for "Local Area Network".

I assume that this means that we are talking about networked PC games where you play against live opposition (rather than the PC which Microsoft have programmed to have 20:20 hindsight and a superior aeroplane to yours!).

Sorry to allow a slightly serious note to slip into the thread.

It does remind me of a mate of mine at primary school who had somehow got hold of an old USAF flying helmet and mask (sort Sabre vintage type thing) and he used to connect the oxygen mask hose to an old washing up liquid bottle as his "oxygen tank".

Now, your average Fairy liquid bottle does not contain a great deal of oxygen and maybe the lack of said O2 accounted for some of his strange behaviour. I wonder if Mickey Dawson was ever aware of how much of his formative years were spent suffering from the effects of Hypoxia?

Good ole Mickey Dawson
 

Oh my god Moggie,

Your brilliance at bringing me right down to rock bottom with the inclusion of such a serious thread, before surprising me with such a witty account of using a Fairy washing up bottle as an oxygen container is much appreciated. I have never before laughed so hard that I myself have suffered euphoria, tingly fingers, farting and difficulty speaking (some of my personal hypoxia favourites). Thanks for brightening up my day! :p

Tell me, is your mate Mickey still alive (and has he regained his colour)?

Even though he is suffering the long term after effects of Hypoxiaa, he is renowned for his very soft hands. :D

I just had to say it!

When last I heard Mickey was alive and (reasonably) well and driving a tractor on a farm.

As an aside, one of the original Fairy Liquid kids (Natalie Ogle) went to my school - at the same time I did. Now, I see a common thread emerging...............

On the "suds" theme, did you know Michael Jackson is a West Ham fan? He walks around Neverland singing "I'm forever blowing Bubbles............"

Apparently Mr. Fakie didn't like the answers here, so has asked his latest question over at Rotorheads.:ok: Some Mother's kids, I tell ya...

Reminds me of the time a guy walked out of our accomodation building wearing his G suit during a fire alarm.

When questioned as to what the :mad: he was doing , he explained he was ...

"practicing putting it on in his room"

:rolleyes:

A Kodak moment - Sic 'em Rex
 

Frozo and Co,

Did you by any chance get a picture of your buddies doing this?

When I was in Pearce in 1992 there was a photograph in the Safety Equipo section of two stunning girls suiting up for a Macchi flight. Of course at the time the handful of female pilots in the RAAF were relatively famous, and these two were definitely NOT in this group. I believe that they were models 'hired' by a student pilot to accompany him to his Graduation Ball. One of the girls was famous for delivering her 'sic em Rex' line to her pet anteater, whilst wearing her Holeproof Antz Pantz. Does anybody remember this? :ok:

http://www.holeproof.com.au/products.../image/REX.jpg