[SandRat]

Got this in and email and couldn't pass up sharing it. May be an oldie but it's still hillarious.

[HairOfTheDog]

I egressed a box of Milk Duds from the sixth grade.

ROTFL! - I would go though.... even if I had to see the milk duds from sixth grade again.

Aviation ping.

[SandRat]

You need a laugh break.

[tiamat]

FUNNY!

thanks! ;-)

[Severa]

*lives just a few miles from NAS Oceana* I LOVE it here. But dammit they're phasing out the F14s...I'm gonna miss seeing them streak across the sky. People ask me about jet noise and it's really not that bad. It's comforting to hear the roars (even if my 4 yr old son just HAS to point out every jet and helicopter he sees)

[bigfootbob]

"Now this message is for America's most famous athletes:

Someday you may be invited to fly in the back-seat of one of your country's most powerful fighter jets. Many of you already have ... John Elway, John Stockton, Tiger Woods to name a few. If you get this opportunity, let me urge you, with the greatest sincerity...

Move to Guam.

Change your name.

Fake your own death!

Whatever you do ...

Do Not Go!!!

Sounds like good advice. I puke on the "Roundup" at the fair. No way would I do something as assinine as riding in one of these.

[The Mayor]

very funny, was it from Sean Hannity ?
I know he talked about flying in one is was kinda scared about it..

[mitchbert]

My cat is looking at me like I've gone nuts.

Bump!

[Riley]

Brings back some memories. I few years back, I got a call to go ride shotgun with a friend in a rented Grob Bavarian for some aerobatics.

It was just before my first big incident of heart problems. And, I was hung over. Badly.

Being somewhat crazy to begin with, I agreed to go. I managed not to 'paint the cockpit', but I wasn't feeling too hot when we landed, either. We pulled a little over 4 Gs. Unngghh-Ooompff.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Humor ping .....

[admiralsn]

b t t t

[FrogMom]

I realized I was the first person in history to throw down.

FrogDad came in to see what I was laughing about - had tears rolling down my face. A couple of minutes later, so did he.

I'm an uneasy flier, so this hits especially close to home. Thanks much!

[yhwhsman]

"Bananas," he said.
"For the potassium?" I asked.
"No," Biff said, "because they taste about the same coming up as they do going down."

First ROFL occurred here. :)

[U S Army EOD]

When I lived in Annapolis, MD I had a friend who had been in the same unit as Richard Bong. He once told be a story sort of like this one. This guy's claim to fame was that between he and Bong, together shot down 42 Jap aircraft. Check the history, yep Bong got 41 and this guy claimed he got the other one. Any how on to the story.

Remember the photograph of Bong with some good looking female movie star standing beside a P38? With everybody all smiles. Well that is the before picture. They had a two seat version that Bong took her up in and showed her a few things a P38 could do that the designers never thought of. When they landed, she was screaming, beating Bong on the head with both fist, and by the way had peed in her pants. Bong just couldn't understand why she was so upset and was mumbling, "What did I do, what did I do".

[ErnBatavia]

I made Linda Blair look polite.

[SAMWolf]

ROTFLMAO Ping

[tet68]

Right, this is like,

"Hey, want to fly?
What now? How?
Well, we just pulled one of the UH1s out of check and have to go up and shoot some auto-rotations....."
Auto-rotations? What's that?
Oh, just a test, you want to fly don't you?"

AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[narby]

I got a chance to ride in a P-51 several years ago. The trip was to establish the fuel usage of the aircraft (not sure why - they may have been messing with carb jetting after the change to 100LL) so they needed to fly it exactly one hour at a particular power setting.

Well, not having anything to do for an hour with a P-51, the pilot decided he just had to have a bit of fun. We didn't have the requisite parachutes for real aerobatics. But that didn't stop from lots of high G turns, usually at about 75 degree bank, where we would climb, and around 110 degree bank, where we'd descend. (someone will point out that technically, this WAS aerobatics. But what the hell)

It was a bit hot outside, and the back seat of the Mustang came with a pop-out air vent, which I popped out soon enough. After about 20 minutes, I really didn't feel too good. A real serious headache. I never really saw the milk duds, but I wished I could.

With 20-20 hindsight, I think I knew the real problem. The Mustang didn't originally have a back seat, and the pop-out vent wasn't original. But it WAS right about in the slipstream for the exaust from the 12cyl Merlin. Which I'll bet climbed a bit upward, and closer to the vent, during the hard turns.

I'll bet my real problem was carbon monoxide. Just glad the pilot didn't have that problem, he had his own vent. There wasn't a stick in the back seat.

[lawgirl]

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[spodefly]

Good article.

I have always wanted to fly in a fighter jet. But I worry that if I ever got the chance I would turn into a hurl machine.

I do aerobatics several times a year in Pitts and Extras. So long as I am the one flying, I never even begin to get ill. I can do anything I want, rolls, spins, loops, etc., and never have a problem. But as soon as the instructor (and/or the owner of the plane) takes the controls, any manuevers will get me sweaty and fighting the hurl instinct.

And I doubt that someone like Biff (or the US Government) would feel comfortable about me actually being in command of an F14/16/18. So ... I would be code name "Milk Dud" in no time.

[expatpat]

A good reminder that it's a he11 of a lot easier being the pilot than the passenger!