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Re: Things you've never done and when you tell people they go "eh"
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2024 5:36 pm
by Yorick
McSatan wrote: Sun Jun 30, 2024 3:46 pm
I've never made chips or deep fried anything. Genuinely true.
I thought you lot deep fried everything?
Re: Things you've never done and when you tell people they go "eh"
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 10:07 pm
by Taipan
Cousin Jack wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 9:41 pm
demographic wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 2:35 pm
MingtheMerciless wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:33 pm
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.
Re: Things you've never done and when you tell people they go "eh"
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 10:12 pm
by Taipan
Yorick wrote: Sun Jun 30, 2024 5:36 pm
McSatan wrote: Sun Jun 30, 2024 3:46 pm
I've never made chips or deep fried anything. Genuinely true.
I thought you lot deep fried everything?
Munchy box!!!
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