Airbus details Smarter Skies vision for planes in 2050

[rev-jaholbrook]

I would just scroll to the bottom of the page were the thread ends and hit reply there.  At least I can see that button.

[Caesar dude]

Three were for bird strikes and the rest was all because the jet took a shit.

That's how they fucking roll dude!

I've got a long story about a pilot who punched out.....his fault...the Jets wouldn't forgive him until he'd apologised!

[rev-jaholbrook]

Oh man!!!!!  That's nuts.  We grounded a pilot overseas for slamming the brakes in full burner after a tiny bird bounced off the canopy during take off.  Blew out both tires, caused hot brakes that resulted in hydraulic lines bursting making flame throwers under the plane!  Is like to hear more your stories sometime C-dude!

[Caesar dude]

Oh yeah...I've seen that! several times....not necessarily for a tiny bird though!

And then we had a jet decide to shellout its standby generator.

I was doing a see off... you call em crew ins I believe.... on a Tornado.

Now the tornado has an APU which we were always told to stand slightly to the right off and away from the efflux...glad I learned, as this thing decided to blow up on start ad promptly spewed out it's guts about four feet away from me....four of the blades embedded themselves in the concrete...nice neat row of tungsten shards sticking out of the planet!

Still enthralled Hominid??

I think I have a book of stories!! You don't have the time dude!

Peace.

[Hominid]

Still enthralled Hominid?

Well, to be around those war birds, AND blow shit up... that's pretty cool. 

[Caesar dude]

aww mate! as an avionics engineer I was also in control of all the weapons guidance systems and radar guided missiles

Now a lot of my equipment needed the armourers to remove the ejection seat....I used to love that! "excuse me guys I need he seat out so I can change so and so!" You see because no matter how late I was working, those thick fuckers were gonna be working later to put the seat back in!

It backfired when I was posted to the Falkland Isles into the missile bay....and had to work everyday with 30 of the idiots!

A quick joke which never went down well with them!

What do you call 30 armourers? A thicket!

Anyhoo because I worked in the missile bay...in the bomb dump FFS! and because it was the Falklands. Every Wednesday we used to go into a special storage area and open random crates of armaments left over by the Argies. We never knew what we were going to find...Claymores, anti tank mines, ball ammo, it didn't really matter...we were going to take it down the range and blow the stuff up....

I loved Wednesdays!!!

[rev-jaholbrook]

Oh yeah...I've seen that! several times....not necessarily for a tiny bird though!

And then we had a jet decide to shellout its standby generator.

I was doing a see off... you call em crew ins I believe.... on a Tornado.

Now the tornado has an APU which we were always told to stand slightly to the right off and away from the efflux...glad I learned, as this thing decided to blow up on start ad promptly spewed out it's guts about four feet away from me....four of the blades embedded themselves in the concrete...nice neat row of tungsten shards sticking out of the planet!

Still enthralled Hominid??

I think I have a book of stories!! You don't have the time dude!

Peace.

Haha.  I make time for a good story.  I enjoy sharing "war stories".  And that's hilarious!!!!   Thicket!!!!!

[Caesar dude]

You know what I'm saying about armourers dude!

I have a collection of names for them...bombheads, bullet brains, dumpies, armouroids....etc.!

One of them actually threw a practice bomb at me once ..4kg blue nose....smoke and flash! What a tube...A. he fell short  and B. he then panicked cos it might have gone off! I think it needs about 120 mph to even think about it! He wasn't that that strong! )

I laughed and launched it back...he ran away!

[rev-jaholbrook]

Hahaha.  That's good stuff.  But that is kinda dumb of him.