Aviation specific humour.

[OneHungLow]

Anecdotes, ditties (but not titties), songs, poems and the like should be posted here.

For those that flew the Harvard (Texan T-6)...




Yes, it is a pity about the photograph.

[ExSp33db1rd]

I flew the Harvard on an RAF NATO course in Canada. One of our French Air Force compulsorily drafted students got lost on a solo night cross country, and eventually decided to bale out. He told us that he climbed out on to the wing whilst carefully holding the control column and avoiding the exhaust pipe, then looked down and saw nothing but cold, dark, snow covered terrain, and decided that wasn't such a good idea, so climbed back in. He subsequently saw lights and re-orienteered himself and made it back to base. ( his story of course, no witnesses )

The same student noted that bush pilots in the Arctic were earning a fortune compared to our training salary, and by that time he had learned enough, and gained enough hours, to pass the Canadian CPL multi-choice type exams of the time, so quietly took his occasional day off to sit and pass the various CPL exams. He then developed eyesight problems, and started screwing up landings, so was chopped from the course and sent back to France, where his eyesight became apparently worse, i.e. "What line can you read on the eyesight chart" , "Can't see a chart ?" He was then invalided out of the French Air Force, whereupon he returned to Canada, gained his CPL and got a job flying in the Arctic, earning far more than the rest of us on cadet pittances. Clever?

[Karearea]

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