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Flight School
email from friend | 9/1/2021 | unknown

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!


TOPICS: Humor; Travel
KEYWORDS: wisdom
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Enjoy!
1 posted on 09/01/2021 3:05:25 AM PDT by sodpoodle
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To: sodpoodle

Make it an F-18 and a 787 and it’s great! ;-)


2 posted on 09/01/2021 3:08:05 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: sodpoodle

Good stuff!


3 posted on 09/01/2021 3:39:00 AM PDT by bfkirk
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To: sodpoodle

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.”


4 posted on 09/01/2021 4:03:20 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (While the foundations are being destroyed, what are the righteous doing?)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Old, old joke. When I first heard it it was a B-52 & an F-4 Phantom.


5 posted on 09/01/2021 4:11:35 AM PDT by Tallguy (Press '2' to have your name removed from our call list...)
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To: Gay State Conservative
First time I heard that, it was an F-18 escorting a B-52.
F-18 did his show off and B-52 Pilot did his thing and his comment to the F-18 was,
I got up, took a leak and got a sandwich and a cup of coffee.
6 posted on 09/01/2021 4:15:42 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: sodpoodle
"Control, Aspen-20. Ground speed check, please."

"Aspen-20, control, we have you at 1992 knots across the ground."

7 posted on 09/01/2021 4:20:10 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: sima_yi

It ain’t braggin’ if’n y’can do it!


8 posted on 09/01/2021 4:37:22 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity ("...for the sake of His name." Psalm 23:3)
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To: sodpoodle

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.


9 posted on 09/01/2021 4:40:10 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Tallguy

Back in my day it was a Roman chariot and a farm wagon...


10 posted on 09/01/2021 5:09:52 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: sodpoodle

πŸ˜ŽπŸ‘πŸ»


11 posted on 09/01/2021 5:11:46 AM PDT by moovova (Joe Biden...Making the Taliban great again!)
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To: Tallguy

In one variant, the B-52’s pilot’s response to the question “What did you do?” was “Shut down two engines”.


12 posted on 09/01/2021 5:15:59 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

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”


13 posted on 09/01/2021 6:26:13 AM PDT by tom paine 2
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To: Tallguy

You beat me to it!


14 posted on 09/01/2021 6:56:52 AM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (Si vis pacem, para bellum. )
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To: DuncanWaring

Exactly the one I recalled!


15 posted on 09/01/2021 7:05:18 AM PDT by Tallguy (Press '2' to have your name removed from our call list...)
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To: Tennessee Nana

LOL! Nothing ever changes!


16 posted on 09/01/2021 7:05:52 AM PDT by Tallguy (Press '2' to have your name removed from our call list...)
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To: sodpoodle
Back in my day, it was a BUFF and an F-4. The punch line was "OK, now see why I can do". The F-4 driver waited but didn't see anything happening. When he asked the BUFF pilot what he did, the response was " I just shut down two engines, now let's see you do that."

(8 vs 2 engines)

17 posted on 09/01/2021 7:11:56 AM PDT by Jonah Hex
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To: montag813

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.


18 posted on 09/01/2021 7:33:15 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: sodpoodle
One of the funnest, most rewarding things experiences I've ever had was being the president of my high school's aviation/aeronautics club. Every other week for an entire school year, I got to line up speakers and presentations. This was back in the 80s so there were still a lot of WWII vets (as well as Korea and Vietnam).

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.

19 posted on 09/01/2021 7:43:40 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: sodpoodle

The first time I heard this one it was an fighter that had just refueled from a tanker.


20 posted on 09/01/2021 9:27:21 AM PDT by utahb52
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