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Stupidest thing you've heard . . .

fc2spyguy

fc2spyguy

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Okay, so . . . I'm at Panama City today, and overhear a guy heading out to his citation talking to the lady behind the desk. "I'm going to give it another try, I think it was fuel freezing in the fuel lines, and that's why the engine flamed out." My jaw dropped, as he and some lady climbed aboard, started it up and took off . . .
 
When I worked line service at an airport in college, a buddy of mine and I ended up refueling some dude's mooney......he had made a pretty rough landing and we heard a big screech at one point. When I walked by the prop I noticed that there was a big chunk missing from the tip of one of the blades and the others were somewhat bent. I tried to politely mention it to him, but the guy seemed pretty confident that it wasn't an issue. He departed about an hour later and I have no idea what ended up happening, though I didn't hear any reports of an accident so maybe he was right :) Still struck me as kind of stupid
 
By proxy is has to be "If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college".
 
I once heard of someone suggesting the E-2C was a sub-detection platform that went inverted, dipped the dish in the water and used it as a SONAR. Seriously.
 
I was at an airshow standing in front of the COD with the wings folded and a lady walked up, starring at the aircraft. She then turned to me and asked "how does it fly like that?" Terribly was my response.
 
Airshows are the greatest for hearing ridiculous assumptions.

"I heard that when a helicopter has to land in the water the pilots will "flip" it over to stop the blades".

MAD= Microwave Attack Device

While giving a tour during an airshow onboard a P-3- "Does this plane still fly?"

"How can you catch those nuclear submarines, don't they go really fast?"
 
I had a guy try to tell me that the P-3 searches for submarines by trolling the MAD boom along in the water.
 
bunk22 said:
I was at an airshow standing in front of the COD with the wings folded and a lady walked up, starring at the aircraft. She then turned to me and asked "how does it fly like that?" Terribly was my response.
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While I was in Japan, we took the COD to an airshow at MCAS Iwakuni. The majority of the Japanese folks thought the plane was broken.
 
fc2spyguy said:
Okay, so . . . I'm at Panama City today . . .
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The fuel was freezing??? I've been to Panama before ... but never encountered any freezing fuel, however ... some of the hookers SHOULD have been frozen ... I could'a used a little bit more ice in my drinks ... but oh, well ... :):sleep_125

But to your original thought:
fc2spyguy said:
Stupidest thing you've heard . . .
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Yea-ass ... stupidest thing I've heard/encountered: STUDs, NFO's S/O's, F/O's (i.e., juniors) who thought they 'knew' more than I did ... :D (< the new 'big' grin)
 
DanMa1156 said:
I once heard of someone suggesting the E-2C was a sub-detection platform that went inverted, dipped the dish in the water and used it as a SONAR. Seriously.
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That one's been around for a really long time...

I over heard a few people claiming the pods on the EA-6B were booster motors... (at an airshow....)
 
I can't tell you how many experts informed their peers at an airshow that the pitot tube on our T-45 was a gun.
 
TheBubba said:
That one's been around for a really long time...

I over heard a few people claiming the pods on the EA-6B were booster motors... (at an airshow....)
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Lots of this stuff is airshow disinformation told by the static display "minders" to the throngs of airshow know-nothings. Pod RAT as aux thrust for takeoff (or as propellers during impromptu ASW), IFR probe as a directed energy weapon. I've told all those tall tales and more - usually sporting a flight suit nametag that reads "Oliver Klozoff" or the ubiquitous "Heywood Jablome." "It's pronounced Yahh-blom, madam." :D

Brett
 
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