Things you've never done and when you tell people they go "eh"

[Yorick]

I've never made chips or deep fried anything. Genuinely true.

I thought you lot deep fried everything?

[Taipan]

From an old Lightning Pilot “Never fly in a helicopter, even the manufacturers have no faith in their product, they equip them with wheels, floats, skids etc, anything to give them a fighting chance on the way down!”

Also from the same guy “flying a helicopter, wiggle all the controls vigorously until you reach a sensible height, once there hold the controls in one position, see what the helicopter does and if you want it to do it again remember the position”.

From reading Chickenhawk by Robert Mason*, the Huey pilots and the plane pilots did a swapsies in Vietnam and the Huey pilots were a shitload better with a plane than the plane pilots with a helicopter.

*Funny/harrowing/interesting true story about a Huey pilot in and after his experience of the Vietnam war.

I know that flying a plane is a bit like riding a bicycle.
I have been told that flying a helicopter is like riding a unicycle.

To fly a helicopter you need good hand and feet coordination. It's why drummers make good helicopter pilots, i.e David Essex and Cozy Powell fly, or flew, helicopters.

[Taipan]

I've never made chips or deep fried anything. Genuinely true.

I thought you lot deep fried everything?

Munchy box!!!

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