The totally off-topic thread

[ozbeachbabe]

Note to self: Never ever pre-allocate 23B on a 767!

Thought you had already made that note a while back & now go for the "J" side??? :shock:

What seat did you end up with?

 

[drewbles]

Is it Gerry's curtain call??
Maybe he can start selling curtains?

He can become the next Tony Sadler

 

[Princess Fiona]

Just booked my first Aeropelican flight in a long time. Flying Monday week. Have been avoiding them due to excess baggage charges but I noticed tonight that "international" passengers now get 24kg checked. Will test out what that means.
Wonder if the pilots seat is still held together by duct tape as it was on my last flight with them

 

[straitman]

Wonder if the pilots seat is still held together by duct tape as it was on my last flight with them

The duct tape has probably fallen off by now :!:

 

[MarkD]

Don't knock the duct tape..... It fixes everything lol

 

[LiamR]

Just booked my first Aeropelican flight in a long time. Flying Monday week. Have been avoiding them due to excess baggage charges but I noticed tonight that "international" passengers now get 24kg checked. Will test out what that means.
Wonder if the pilots seat is still held together by duct tape as it was on my last flight with them

Don't knock the duct tape..... It fixes everything lol

I thought in the last few years they have started using special airplane glue.

[video=youtube;9XLZyibd0BY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XLZyibd0BY[/video]

 

[Katie]

ME TOO! hmmmm ...

I didn't. Guess they don't need anyone to write any docs for them.

 

[Katie]

23A/B are crew rest on some aircraft, a sub will see you get slim pickings of the alternates, 23 JK much better , they are also bassinet positions so you might get bumped for an infant traveller, which has also happened to me but quite OK in my books!

But where is 24F's arm rest (ref my other thread with no responses ...)????

 

[maggies1]

Yes me too. hello FT, been hacked lately.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Just booked my first Aeropelican flight in a long time. Flying Monday week. Have been avoiding them due to excess baggage charges but I noticed tonight that "international" passengers now get 24kg checked. Will test out what that means.
Wonder if the pilots seat is still held together by duct tape as it was on my last flight with them

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Never mind your seat being held together with duct tape, how about when the whole plane is! The Piper Cub above was well and truly trashed by a bear in its qiest to get some bait that was left in an esky onboard. The plane was put back together with duct tape and flown home!

 

[Storyteller]

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Never mind your seat being held together with duct tape, how about when the whole plane is! The Piper Cub above was well and truly trashed by a bear in its qiest to get some bait that was left in an esky onboard. The plane was put back together with duct tape and flown home!

Attachment doens't work for me. Drat! I wanted to see that!

 

[serfty]

See here:

Bear eats Cub - Warning Graphic:

There's been a story circulating the Internet for a few months now -- a tale about a pilot in Alaska who had to fly home on a wing, a prayer and a case of duct tape after his plane was mauled by a bear. Some say the bear was after fish. Some say he was just being a jerk. And some don't believe the story at all, chalking it up to Last Frontier fish tales and Internet hype.

Turns out, though, this online "myth" is grounded firmly in reality. ...

Posted on a wing & a prayer

 

[drron]

Or here-
Bear Attacks Plane, Pilot Fixes Plane With Duct Tape, Pilot Flies Duct-Taped Plane Home

But as the comments says it is not duct tape but duck tape.

 

[drron]

Funny story in the SMH today.pity if it's true and the SOTP is lost to SPG.
Gatto's Sheraton on the lark
But somehow I dont think so.

 

[Nigelinoz]

See here:

Bear eats Cub - Warning Graphic:


Posted on a wing & a prayer

MythBusters has done this recently-
MythBusters: Duct Tape Plane High-Speeds : Video : Discovery Channel

Cheers
N'oz

 

[straitman]

I do not disbelieve it as I have flown Helicopters where Masking Tape was user on a rotor blade tip as a temporary fix for a rotor imbalance problem. Remember that helicopter rotor blades can be travelling at near supersonic speeds.

 

[Nigelinoz]

I do not disbelieve it as I have flown Helicopters where Masking Tape was user on a rotor blade tip as a temporary fix for a rotor imbalance problem. Remember that helicopter rotor blades can be travelling at near supersonic speeds.

Back a few years ago MythBusters examined the idea that sticking a postage stamp to the rotor blades would imbalance the helicopter so seriously it would crash-
I seem to remember they busted that idea.
Cheers
N'oz

 

[straitman]

Back a few years ago MythBusters examined the idea that sticking a postage stamp to the rotor blades would imbalance the helicopter so seriously it would crash-
I seem to remember they busted that idea.
Cheers
N'oz

Correct.

We would actually experiment with how many wraps of tape were needed.

 

[Hvr]

Correct.

We would actually experiment with how many wraps of tap were needed.

Were the taps to faucet (sic) it malfunction?

 

[Mal]

And speaking of Duct tape - Duct Tape Island : Photos : MythBusters : Discovery Channel

The new season of Mythbusters starts in a few weeks in the U.S ... first episode is called "Duct Tape Island". Yep, those crazy guys are on an island and using Duct tape in numerous survival skill type ways.