What about some new aviation sayings.
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Here's one I sometimes find myself saying. Somebody is lampooned (sp?) for not knowing something rather obscure from air law or the PPL sylubus
'Ah-ha' - there's something else I'd forgotten I knew!
'Ah-ha' - there's something else I'd forgotten I knew!
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In answer to all you helicopter bashers....
Why land then stop when you can stop then land.
I never understood the fascination for deliberately hitting the ground at 60kts.
And in answer to concerned friends and relatives before seeing their loved one go off for a trial lesson (which they probably paid for): 'Of course it's safe, I've got steak for tea and I'm not missing that.'
Why land then stop when you can stop then land.
I never understood the fascination for deliberately hitting the ground at 60kts.
And in answer to concerned friends and relatives before seeing their loved one go off for a trial lesson (which they probably paid for): 'Of course it's safe, I've got steak for tea and I'm not missing that.'
To fly a piston helicopter you need money
To fly a single turbine helicopter you need loads of money.
To fly a twin turbine helicopter you need someone elses money.
Based on years of observation
To fly a single turbine helicopter you need loads of money.
To fly a twin turbine helicopter you need someone elses money.
Based on years of observation
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If the damn thing didn't vibrate so much, she would have given up ages ago.
Heard soto voce from a well known helicopter instructor.
Heard soto voce from a well known helicopter instructor.
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Just recalled a sometime fellow p-prooner's view of the Handley-Page Herald when commenting its unsurpassed cockpit ergonimics.
"If it wasn't too sharp or too hot to touch, it didn't work!"
Edit: Opps, slight typo.
"If it wasn't too sharp or too hot to touch, it didn't work!"
Edit: Opps, slight typo.
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And a similar one heard from a former Hunter mechanic about anything you needed to work on:
"You could see it or you could touch it, but you could never do both!"
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"You could see it or you could touch it, but you could never do both!"
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Hmm, that was one of mine but misquoted....
I was describing that gravity defying thing called a Chinook. What I actually said was:
"How many birds have you seen with wings that go round in circles over their heads? Not many, I reckon. But birds with another set of wings which go round in circles over their ar$es.......?"
I was describing that gravity defying thing called a Chinook. What I actually said was:
"How many birds have you seen with wings that go round in circles over their heads? Not many, I reckon. But birds with another set of wings which go round in circles over their ar$es.......?"
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After a greased landing instructor says "landed like a butterfly with sore feet."
Flying is the 2nd greatest pleasure known to man. Landing is the first!!!
Its not Bernoulli's theory or the lift equation that keeps an aircraft in the air ................ the only thing that keeps an aircraft in the air is MONEY$$$$$!
For single engine night flying "night flying is for bats and twats"!!!!
Flying is the 2nd greatest pleasure known to man. Landing is the first!!!
Its not Bernoulli's theory or the lift equation that keeps an aircraft in the air ................ the only thing that keeps an aircraft in the air is MONEY$$$$$!
For single engine night flying "night flying is for bats and twats"!!!!
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"Never trust an aircraft that was built before you were born" I was told by the Wing's Flight Safety Officer while in the Air Force (not the RAF).
We then strapped ourselves into a plane that had been built... the year I was born!
We then strapped ourselves into a plane that had been built... the year I was born!
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Helicopters are the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
If you can't hover, you're queer.
Helicopter pilots: get it up faster
do it in a roundabout way
can go down vertically
An aeroplane gets you to the place where you get into the helicopter to do the job.
If you can't hover, you're queer.
Helicopter pilots: get it up faster
do it in a roundabout way
can go down vertically
An aeroplane gets you to the place where you get into the helicopter to do the job.
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Glider pilots do it quietly & stay up longer.
Become an organ donor, fly low & slow.
MD to Production manager "John, you are the condom on the dick of progress"
Become an organ donor, fly low & slow.
MD to Production manager "John, you are the condom on the dick of progress"
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Micawber's law of Performance Planning
"Landing Distance required 750 yards, Landing Distance available 800 yards, Result happiness"
"Landing Distance required 750 yards, Landing Distance available 700 yards, Result misery"
"Landing Distance required 750 yards, Landing Distance available 800 yards, Result happiness"
"Landing Distance required 750 yards, Landing Distance available 700 yards, Result misery"
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Er, how many birds do you see with wings which are stiff like planks of wood?
And Hummingbirds beat their wings in a figure of eight, they have reverse pitch wings.