I liked this preflight video a lot. I’m definitely going to make on in the new year for my passengers.
Performance related rewards in aviation
A priest dies and is waiting in line at the Pearly Gates. Ahead of him is a guy who’s dressed in sunglasses, a loud shirt, leather jacket and jeans. Saint Peter addresses this cool guy, “Who are you, so that I may know whether or not to admit you to the Kingdom of Heaven?”
The guy replies, “I’m Jack, I am private pilot ”
Saint Peter consults his list. He smiles and says to the pilot, “Take this silken robe and golden staff and enter the Kingdom.” The pilot goes into Heaven with his robe and staff.
Next, it’s the priest’s turn. He stands erect and booms out, “I am Father Bob, pastor of Saint Mary’s for the last 43 years.”
Saint Peter consults his list. He says to the priest, “Take this cotton robe and wooden staff and enter the Kingdom.”
“Just a minute,” says the good Father. “That man was a pilot and he gets a silken robe and golden staff and I get only cotton and wood. How can this be?”
“Up here we go by results,” says Saint Peter. “When you preached, people slept. When he flew, people prayed.”
Jeppesen plate for ‘miracle on the Hudson’
Fitting and oddly moving tribute from Jeppesen to the US Airways Flight 1549 crew. Hat tip: Fly with Blake.
Funny Wernher von Braun song by Tom Lehrer
Writing about Werner von Braun yesterday reminded me of the very satirical song by Tom Lehrer. I’m not sure there’s anything I can add to the coverage of the Apollo 11 anniversary but this is a small, funny footnote. Didn’t Tom Lehrer quit satire when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize, claiming unfair competition? “And I’m learning Chinese, says Wernher von Braun.”
Rapping flight attendant video
You will not get this kind of announcement on United Airlines or BA. First class.
More rogue waypoints
The latest from Flight International: BEENO, DANDI, TOPPA. GINIS on route to Dublin. For TV sitcom fans: DELBO and RODNI.
For Looney Tunes, there’s a routeing in Australia – ZZ929 from Townsvill to Mt Gordon: TL ITORT EYSAW APUSS ECATT DCT.
On the approach to Newark Airport in New Jersey: HOWYA DOOIN. Louisiana has RYTHM, Kentucky has BRBON, Kansas City has SPICY BARBQ RIBBS, Montpelier, VT has HAMM, BURGR and FRYYS.
Apparently, there is a BUXOM and JUGGS in the US but revealing their true obsession there is also: GOALL, PPUNT, DRPPD, FTBAL, COACH, QTRBK, TAKKL, RECVR, FMBLE and TCHDN.