"Young man, I'll stand where I want to stand." The lady Mayor of my hometown at the local airport. She was standing 20 feet away from an old Howard, right in line with the cylinders of it's radial engine on start up. She WAS wearing a white jacket and skirt. As soon as the engine fired though, she looked like a leopard.
I bet that bitch learned a lesson.
Yeah Right. I'm sure she just bitched a lot, and blamed the airplane for being soo "environmentally unfriendly".
Mistakes? She's the Mayor! She doesn't make mistakes!!! It's everyone else's fault!
She sent the airport the bill for her clothes. Manager tore it up and threw it away.
This was a while before the ECOcraze started.
My on-wing and I took a T-34C to an airshow about six months back when I was in Primary and had two rather interesting questions from a couple of old-timers.
1) "Do you think this one right here flew in World War II?"
2) "Now the back seat, that's for the gunner - Right?"
"Yessir, the back seat is where the gunner sits. That switch there arms the gun. We control it using these little black knobs on the left side here, and we fire it using this switch on the lower left panel right here. The gunner locates the target using a FLIR pod on the gun and looking into that little green screen."
The first time I saw a T-34C cockpit someone could have told me this and I totally would have believed them.
"Is that a video of (President) Lincoln?!" Mrs. Pickle...about an hour ago...