I think some of those kids did not have suits on and the Harrier pilot was taking a closer look when his engine stalled.

But the camera person held on!!

This is the funniest thread ever. I'm serious. No....I'm ROFLMAO :D

Except for that one. What was funnyabout that? In addition. looked like the pilot's chute tossed him right back into the sinking plane. I bet he drowned after a successful ejection. If he didn't, he was more damned lucky than he should have been cheating death twice in seconds.


MORE!!!

In the early 90's I was on a Southwest flight from SAN to SFO and the flight attendant was doing the whole "welcome...safety" speak before take off in SoCal Barbie voice and verbage. "Like O my God..." There was an old couple who freaked at the lack of professionalism and B4 we landed had the Captain over to apologise. I'm sure that old couple is dead now...hope the flight crew is still intact.

This was related to me, I wish I'd said it:

After a rather hard landing, the pilot of the aircraft was standing at the cockpit door saying good-bye to the passengers.

As an older man approached, the Captain wished him a good afternoon. Without missing a beat, the old man said, "Thanks...but I didn't know if we'd landed or been shot down".

Have you seen the video of the fighter that slams the deck of the carrier he's landing on, the fighter erupts into flames and the crew ejects only to have the pilot drift directly back into the burning wreckage?

Ouch. No, don't peruse the Net looking for video much. I get most of my entertainment right here on Pelican including TV time. I hate TV. But, it is a thread about humor; some of the funniest one-liners and stories I have ever read. Real life humor is so much better than the variety you find in a nightclub.

But death has no part in this thread. Sorry. I just wanted to continue to laugh.

No no no... you cut out the best part of that video...


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1215637693043681535&q=spitfire&hl= en


F-ME!

Back in the day PSA flying into San Diego airport late one night, on a 10 mile final pilot says to the Tower "Guess who?"
Tower turns off all the runway lights and replies "Guess where".

F-ME! is right.:D

I was in the bleacher stands at an airshow in Kalamazoo Michigan about 12 years ago. The anouncer kept saying the the F-15 was going to come back around over the trees in front of us, watch for it.

The jet came in from behind the stands and kicked in the afterburners right over our heads at very low altitude.

Everyone jumped, kids were screaming and crying, it was awesome.:)

At an airshow at Top Gun fighter town Miramar in the eighties.
F-14 did super sonic fly by.
I had just bought 2 beers in large paper cups, watched the F-14 pass by with not a sound.
That is until it was 50 yards past me and then I/the air show got the full sonic boom.
I flinched from the sound as my hands clenched I crushed the two beer cups in my hands.
Man law sonic boom still cool even if beer wasted!
The real damage was the 50 some cracked windows in the near by neighborhood.

One of my fav's..
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1161576972.jpg

Our chute harnesses have a device that releases the chute when it is submerged in salt water. Everyone flies with life perservers as well. I'll ask about that guy. I work with a guy who ejected from a harrier.


Here's a funny one.

We train italians, poles, and portugese pilots among others down here a Laughlin AFB.

I was flying with an Italian student the other day and his dialect must be equivalent to our southerner's. You could go get a sandwich in the time between the rise and fall of each syllable. During one of our pre-engine start checklists, he asks me if to check the "WOW"(weight-on-wheels) switch. However, it sounded like he said check vulva. I asked him to say it again. He repeated it twice more. Of course, I thought he was messing with me. I snapped back with "dude, are you calling me out?!"

Funny.