Sorry... my smilie face went crazy BIG!!!!
Don’t know if these are real or not, but I do know they’re funny.
This was on an F-16 at Hill AFB depot IRAN maintenance. Makes you wonder what the writeup would have been if the pin wasn't installed?
hi-jack your thread but it reminded me of the car/driver excuses. https://letterpile.com/quotes/Funny-Excuses-Car-Accidents
First saw it in on the board during flight training in the 1980s.
It refers to a missing engine, which would have been a piston engine, so it probably dates back to the 1950s at least
It still cracks me up every time I see it.
I was going to ask what 'major' airline "never, ever, had an accident" but after reading this, I'll ask "What airline uses IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) and Targeting Radar"?
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This is the kind of gags and stuff the airplane movies would have done.
Top Drift, but timely:
10 Quotes About Politicians
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen - Winston Churchill
An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere - Mark Twain
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word - Charles De Gaulle
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators - PJ O’Rourke
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber - Plato
Statesmen tell you what is true even though it may be unpopular. Politicians will tell you what is popular, even though it may be untrue - Anonymous
A politician thinks of the next election - a statesman of the next generation - James Freeman Clarke
Now I know what a statesman is; he’s a dead politician. We need more statesmen - Bob Edwards
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress .... But I repeat myself - Mark Twain
A typical write-up:
Pilot: VHF radio only works intermittently.
Avionics: Advise you only use radio when it works.
(Back in the day when I used to test-run jet engines, a leaky seal would often cause a bit of oil smoke after shutdown - my official diagnoses on the crab sheet would always read: "Smokin' PT Blues" - drove my manager nuts.)
Classic!
Pilit humor right up there with the FAA annotated version of High Flight (which I would post if I wasn’t on my phone).
Having been a ‘flightline maintenance man’, reading these supposed intelligent reports by pilots, reminds me of many of the same things written by front-and-rear-seaters of the former 35th TFW of the late George AFB, CA.
A true, weird and funny one was that the backseater’s radar scope would wink in and out while in flight, but would remain lit, while the aircraft was all running on the tarmac. We had to have a guy from our radar shop actually fly with the pilot of that aircraft, with all the lower cockpit panels removed, to find the one 22 gauge wire causing all the trouble. Of course, the pilot has his fun with the poor guy, jinking around the sky to make the wire move ‘just so’. Once the wire was found, the pilot returned to base and landed the plane. The flight, was right after lunch ... (you fill in the rest). The aircraft was towed to the repair dock, to be fixed. The repairman was sent to the hospital for a day of observation. The pilot was found later at the Officers’ Club, and summoned to the base commander’s office. He had to clean the entire rear cockpit of the mess, BEFORE, my shop crew could begin the repair work.