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May 12 Best Chicken JokeA chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is leaning against the headboard smoking a cigarette, with a satisfied smile on it's face. The egg, looking a bit disgusted, grabs the sheet, rolls over, and says, Well, I guess we finally answered THAT question!" March 18 Jeff Foxworthy on "Ontario":Jeff Foxworthy on "Ontario": If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through March 29 Things you've always wanted to know!If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it.) **************************************************************** (Now that's more like it!) **************************************************************** (O.M.G.!) **************************************************************** (In my next life, I want to be a pig.) **************************************************************** (Creepy.)
**************************************************************** (Do not try this at home......maybe at work or school.) *************************************************************** ("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!") **************************************************************** (30 minutes...can you imagine?) **************************************************************** (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?) **************************************************************** (I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality **************************************************************** (Something I always wanted to know.) **************************************************************** (Hmmmmmm........) **************************************************************** (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?) **************************************************************** (OK, so that would be a good thing....) **************************************************************** (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?) **************************************************************** (I know some people like that.) **************************************************************** (I know some people like that too.) **************************************************************** (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.) **************************************************************** (What about that pig?) 80's kidThis is sort of Gender specific and applies to girls more then guys but its still funny! You know you grew up in the 1980's if . . March 24 ATC conversationsPretty Good ones here.... Real Air Traffic Controller Conversations ************************************************************** "TWA 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 Degrees." *************************************************************** From an unknown aircraft waiting in a very long takeoff queue: "I'm ************************************************************** O'Hare Approach Control to a 747: "United 329 heavy, your traffic is a ************************************************************* A student became lost during a solo cross-country flight. While ************************************************************ A DC-10 had come in a little hot and thus had an exceedingly long ************************************************************ There's a story about the military pilot calling for a priority ************************************************************ Taxiing down the tarmac, a DC-10 abruptly stopped, turned around and *********************************************************** A Pan Am 727 flight waiting for start clearance in Munich overheard *********************************************************** Tower: "Eastern 702, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on ********************************************************** One day the pilot of a Cherokee 180 was told by the tower to hold ********************************************************** The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a ********************************************************** AN UNSCHEDULED REFUELING STOP
Perhaps a Junk might be a safer mode of travel.... AN UNSCHEDULED REFUELING STOP
LOOK AT THIS ENGINE.....The aircrew obviously had more balls then brains. Hard to believe anyone would take off with an engine in this condition. This is an excellent example of why any prudent traveler should generally stick with North American carriers, Western European carriers and a few other carriers like Quantas, Air New Zealand, and Singapore. A pilot for a Chinese carrier requested permission and landed at FRA (Frankfurt, Germany) for an unscheduled refueling stop. The reason became soon apparent to the ground crew: The Number 3 engine had been shut down because of excessive vibration, and because it didn't look so good. It had apparently been no problem for the tough guys back in China: they took some sturdy straps and wrapped them around several of the fan blades and the structures behind, thus stopping any unwanted windmilling (engine spinning by itself due to airflow passing thru the blades during flight) and associated uncomfortable vibration caused by the suboptimal fan. Note that the straps are seatbelts....how resourceful! After making the "repairs", off they went into the wild blue yonder with another revenue-making flight on only three engines! With the increased fuel consumption, they got a bit low on fuel, and just set it down at the closest airport for a quick refill. That's when the problems started: The Germans, who are kind of picky about this stuff, inspected the malfunctioning engine and immediately grounded the aircraft. (Besides the seatbelts, notice the appalling condition of the fan blades.) The airline operator had to send a chunk of money to get the first engine replaced (took about 10 days) The repair contractor decided to do some impromptu inspection work on the other engines, none of which looked all that great either. The result: a total of 3 engines were eventually changed on this plane before it was permitted to fly again.
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