Well here we are again folks on the eve of another crimbal day.
I’ve always believed that this time of year is a about family, friends, and reflecting on the past years flying experiences.
I’m pleased to report that this is my first year without loosing any gliders.
(I lost 3 in the preceding year.) So that’s good.
Building?……. Well I didn’t get to build as many planes as I’d planed to. However, I notice that there is a rather long and relatively light box under our xmas tree, and it’s got my name on it!
(It's from the wife so it's probably a collapsible Zimmer frame :cry: ) But the wrapping will be coming off it very early in the morning.
As to the question as to whether I’m a better pilot this christmas than I was last ?………..well I don’t know. I think I’m actually I getting more daring with some of my stunt flying…well, it’s exciting isn’t it!
(Though it can be a little embarrassing when I have to walk around picking up the pieces! :oops: )
Anyway I’ll take this opportunity to wish all my present friends in the r.c. fraternity (and all the new ones I’ve yet to meet) a very happy Christmas.
I’ll leave you with a couple of articles I read during the year.
I have no idea if they are true or not, I’d be a little embarrassed if the first one was………..
…..Results of damage testingIt seems the US Federal Aviation Administration has a unique device for testing the strength of windscreens on airplanes. The device is a gun that launches a dead chicken at a plane's windscreen at approximately the speed that the plane flys.
The theory is that if the windscreen doesn't crack from the carcass impact, then it'll survive a real collision with a bird during flight.
The British were very interested in this and wanted to test a windscreen on a brand new, high speed locomotive they were developing.
They borrowed the FAA's chicken launcher, loaded a chicken and fired it. The ballistic chicken shattered the windscreen, went through the drivers chair, broke an instrument panel and embedded itself in the back wall of the cab. The British were stunned and asked the FAA to recheck the test to see if everything had been done correctly.
The FAA reviewed the test thoroughly and made just one recommendation:
"Use a thawed chicken.”
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A passenger jet had not long taken off from the airport. After it reached a comfortable cruising altitude, the captain made an announcement over the intercom,
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Welcome to Flight Number XYZ, non stop from London to Calgary.
The weather ahead is good and therefore we should have a smooth and uneventful flight. Please sit back, relax and -- OH MY GOD!"
Silence followed but after a few minutes, the Captain came back on the intercom.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm so sorry if I scared you earlier, but while I was talking, the flight attendant brought me a cup of coffee and spilt it in my lap. You should see the front of my trousers!
At which point a passenger was heard to say, "That's nothing, he should see the back of mine! :lol:
See you on the slopes
Keith
