Posted on 09/01/2021 3:05:25 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Airbus 380 is on its way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 km/h at 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with Tempo Mach 2 appears.
The pilot of the fighter jet slows down, flies alongside the Airbus and greets the pilot of the passenger plane by radio: "Airbus, boring flight isn’t it? Now have a look here!"
He rolls his jet on its back, accelerates, breaks through the sound barrier, rises rapidly to a dizzying height, then swoops down almost to sea level in a breathtaking dive. He loops back next to the Airbus and asks, "Well, how was that?"
The Airbus pilot answers: "Very impressive, but now you look!"
The jet pilot watches the Airbus, but nothing happens. It continues to fly stubbornly straight, with the same speed. After 15 minutes, the Airbus pilot radios, "Well, how was that?"
Confused, the jet pilot asks, "What did you do?"
The Airbus pilot laughs and says, "I got up, stretched my legs, walked to the back of the aircraft to use the washroom, then got a cup of coffee and a chocolate fudge pastry.
The moral of the story is:
When you are young, speed and adrenaline seems to be great. But as you get older and wiser, you learn that comfort and peace are more important.
*This is called S.O.S.: Slower, Older, but Smarter.*
Dedicated to all my friends who are like me, now realizing that it is time to slow down and enjoy the rest of the trip.
Dedicated to the seniors!
Make it an F-18 and a 787 and it’s great! ;-)
Good stuff!
Very good.
Reminds me of the line in “Fried Green Tomatoes” (I think). Young chick swoops in to grab the parking space an older lady had been waiting for patiently. Old lady gently hits the chick’s car. “I’m older; I’ve got more insurance.”
Old, old joke. When I first heard it it was a B-52 & an F-4 Phantom.
"Aspen-20, control, we have you at 1992 knots across the ground."
It ain’t braggin’ if’n y’can do it!
Nah, can’t rel;ate. This old fogey is staying away from chocolate fudge pastries and is staying fit, since the “rest of the trip” is pretty miserable when you are fat, unhealthy and out of shape.
Back in my day it was a Roman chariot and a farm wagon...
😎👍🏻
In one variant, the B-52’s pilot’s response to the question “What did you do?” was “Shut down two engines”.
or the old bull and the young stud looking down on the herd of heifers from a hill. The young stud says “lets run down and #### that heifer”
The old cow says “lets walk down and #### em all”
You beat me to it!
Exactly the one I recalled!
LOL! Nothing ever changes!
(8 vs 2 engines)
Amen to that no matter how hard it is. Better to find some other comfort that is not food.
Now I have all day to do almost everything instead of dashing from on thing to another always figuring out how to shave some time and get things in the most efficient order.
CCP19 is yet another threat I never thought we would have to deal with. It will get us all somehow.
There are still plenty of chores and summer is wearing me down again. Life, summer and building houses can be a lot alike; lots of excitement and prospect at the outset and then you are happier when you see the end of it. I’m not ready to throw in the towel but things are tedious, especially on the nation front, and I have never seen them ever get any better. Oh maybe a few short times like Reagan and Trump but other than that the slope is decay and changes that don’t need to be.
One guy had been a KC-135 pilot in Vietnam. He said that on base you could always tell the difference between a fighter pilot and a KC-135 pilot by looking at their flight suit. The fighter pilot would have his unzipped to just above his sternum and would have his sunglasses tucked in there. The KC-135 pilot would have a plastic spoon tucked into his sleeve pocket so he would always be able to stir his coffee.
The first time I heard this one it was an fighter that had just refueled from a tanker.
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