The B707's I flew in my past life had a placard on the back of both pilot's seats which said;

"Seat must face forward for takeoff and landing." http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/confused.gif

I always wondered what it would be like to try and land by facing aft and using a mirror.

Speaking of looking backwards and going forwards, did you know that 'clockwise' is 'anti-clockwise'if you're a clock.
:) :)

D'you know Bullet head - on the face of it you're quite right.


(I love this forum)

Bullethead,

that joke is decidedly second hand (or, on the other hand...)

Hired a car in the US once - on the seatbelt it had " this seatbelt will only help prevent injury if worn" :) http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/tongue.gif :) :rolleyes:

Or, on the other hand badly timed

Or, on the other hand badly timed

Back to placards I remember whilst guzzling some tinnies of lager reading a "helpline" phone number on the can...
My mind boggled... Alcoholics Anonymous, Sally Army or kebab shop?

I once jump-seated on an Ael Lingus 737 Copenhagen to Manchester. On the back of the cockpit door was a little sign "Fly this aeroplane green side up".

;~)

SSD

On a $5000 automated lighting fixture, manufactured in Texas, "Do Not Drop"

In my C152 aerobat, in tiny letters

"Spin Recovery.
To recover from a spin
1) Check direcion of spin
2) Apply full opposite rudder.......etc...."

As if anyone would have time to read the instructions!!

In front of a `work in progress` area on an embankment, at the side of a road in Hong Kong, with about 30 local workers standing around finger up nose

`CAUTION- Dangerous slopes`

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Sign in a shop window in a mall near Jacksonville Florida read - " Ears pierced while you wait"

On 29 Sqdn who were then operating Javelins, the squadron comedian made a stencil which was then covertly applied to every aircraft in the outfit.

"CHOP HERE FOR AXE"

Does anybody apart from me remember Javelins??

In a block of flats:
"LIFTS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED"

Barbeque Firelighting Fluid:
"Caution Flammable Liquid"

Various cockpits:
"Fuel: Pull Off"
(and now what do I do with the Knob?)

More perversely, the common practice with low wing planes of painting the walkway black, all the way across the wing root and flaps, then applying a decal "no step" on the flap.
Why did they paint it non slip black then?

On oldertype standby AH ' PULL for quick erection'

on cooler room door:
please keep cloesd when enter and exiting?

I saw once on a box of sleeping tablets "Warning - may cause drowsiness".

I bloody well hope so!!!

Skytrucker 87 - would that be the World's first non-aerobatic fighter then? Saw one at Chivenor years ago before the RAF's best aerodrome was handed over to the mud-eaters (WHY???????) - the Hunter mates said that the pilot was 'the only kamikaze pilot in the RAF!!'.

In a Columbian Air Force crewroom was a sign warning pilots not to drop their bombs when upside down!!

The RAF used to drop their bombs when upside down - or nearly! I've got a video of early Farnborough airshows where Victors and Vulcans demonstrated the 'lob' technique. They pulled up into a half loop releasing the bomb just before going through the vertical, then rolling off the top of the loop to dive away in the opposite direction at max knots before they got caught in a horrid mushroom cloud with all that nasty radiation :~( Very strange sight to see such a big aeroplane do a that.

And talking of the Javelin, anyone read "The Quick and the Dead", by Bill Waterton? It's long out of print but Bill was Gloster's Cheif Test Pilot for Meteor and Javelin - and the latter did not impress him much. I had a pretty Dinky Toys model of one when I was a kid, though. (Was a kid??? Still am at heart ;~)

SSD

I'm surprised no body has mentioned
this one. I've seen in on many C172's

On the window a placard says:

Do not open above 160 Knots.

Any care to guess what the VNE for
172's is? Could it be 160 Kts.