General Chat

..... if we stay with GR we're ALL here for the long haul, Sharron....

I hope you are a long=haul pilot and not just doing hops to the continent Barry.

The lad deserves a good day out!

Hi Roy,

Darn. You guessed :-D

Actually my son has big problems with gluten and dairy so if I need to get tough I tell him it's the cheese sandwich treatment :-D

Jill, Are you sure your only going to SHOW your kids the picture?

sounds more like a threat to me ;-)

Roy :-D

Love the pic though.

Can't wait to show my kids tomorrow.

J

Quoting RomanyStar here.

'People think their wild little brats are angels. Oh its not THEIR kids that terrorise the single mum into a nervous breakdown, its not THEIR precious offspring that throw eggs at the elderly ladies windows at night making her afraid to leave her home. Little sh*ts.'

Romany. I am appalled at your attitude. How can you justify calling these people 'Little'? It's sizist :-D :-D

Seem to recall Rolls Royce being asked about how much power does a particular car have available.........

reply was short n sweet............


Sufficient!

Bob

also in the days of REAL Rolls Royces........you would never see one on a recovery truck.....they were always covered..........they never "broke down" but were being transported

are you sure he was in the cockpit with you and not tied to the wing with a piece of string?? :-D :-D :-D :-D

Roy, a hat worn in such conditions near aircraft is called FOD. This stands for Foreign Object Damage - and any hat will be ingested almost immediately into the engine causing it to shut down. That’s not good when you are in the air, believe me. (I thought I'd mention it, however.)

When someone feels their hat being removed their first reaction is to put a hand on their head to stop it. Imagine our young lad hanging on to the windscreen wiper by ONE HAND. Ouch, poor lad! This doesn't bear thinking about, you'll agree. So, NO hat for him. It’s very sensible, really!

The good thing about this scenario - with him at the front - is if the plane dives and there is a crash the lad will be spared seeing it about to occur. I think that’s good, don’t you? Imagine the effect it will have on him if he survived! However, the pilot gets a bird’s eye view of it all and this is likely very disturbing for him. It’s the last thing in his memory.
(Kinda what the fly sees last when he smashes into a windscreen! Know what I mean!)

Gloves; you mention them. I can tell you from experience it is very, very difficult to hang onto an aircraft windscreen wiper blade wearing gloves. There is barely any room between the blade and the windscreen. Just thought I’d point this out in case you thought I was being thoughtless and causing hardship to the lad. I could never do such a thing!

Going back to FOD and the engines for a mo, do remember it’s always good to have that extra power… you never know what’s around the corner (or lurking in a cloud) ……

……. and I understand the chairman of Rolls Royce replied when asked why he only flew in aircraft with four engines,

“Because nobody operates one with five.”

Such a sensible fellow!

Well I'm totally disgusted at this, :-|

How could you treat your son this way :-|


Why would you expose your son to such harsh conditions without a hat and a pair of gloves :-D

Roy

dunno about the lad cleaning the windscreen..........should think he'd need a change of underpants!!


there used to be a saying, in the days of steam trains that you shouldn't travel with your back to the engine...........

dont you feel that travelling with your back to the wind is offputting? ;-)

How awful !! no safety helmet....... ;-) ;-) ;-) :-D :-D :-D.

Is that "Ryanairs" new seat saving policy? :-D :-D :-D Brilliant though. :-)

great :-D :-D :-D :-D

Excellent!! :-D :-D :-D

On a wet Monday morning that really made me smile

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You wouldn't find this so funny if they kept dropping on to your greenhouse!

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