Humour

Thanks but you left something out…

Tower: Have a good trip…
Pilot: Make that a round trip . . .

— Lloyd Lace, USAAF, 1944 before departing on C-46 missions, flying over “The Hump” (China – Burma – India).

If black boxes survive air crashes — why don’t they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

— George Carlin

Buttons . . . check. Dials . . . check. Switches . . . check. Little colored lights . . . check.

— The Bill Waterson comic character Calvin of “Calvin and Hobbes” fame….

Real planes use only a single stick to fly. This is why bulldozers & helicopters — in that order — need two.

— Paul Slattery

If helicopters are so safe, how come there are no vintage/classic helicopter fly-ins?

— Anon

You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.

— Marty Caidin