Ein bisschen lachen ... So macht Englisch Spaß ;-)

[wannabee]

Für all' diejenigen, die das regelmäßige Re-Posten der "Quantas-Checklist"
leid sind, hier ein paar andere ganz witzige Sachen:

SHORT FINAL...
Some Boeing employees recently "liberated" a life raft from one of the
747s on the company's production line. Later, they took it for a float
on the Stilliguamish river. Imagine their surprise when a Coast Guard
helicopter "rescued" them after homing in on the emergency locator
beacon that activated when the raft was inflated. Not surprisingly,
they no longer work at Boeing.


SHORT FINAL...
We're not sure if this actually happened, but we thought we'd share it
anyway...

According to Reuters, the dazed crew of a Japanese trawler was plucked
out of the Sea of Japan earlier this year clinging to the wreckage of
their sunken ship. Their rescue was followed by immediate imprisonment
once authorities questioned the sailors on their ship's loss. To a man
they claimed that a cow, falling out of a clear blue sky, had struck the
trawler amidships, shattering its hull and sinking the vessel within
minutes. They remained in prison for several weeks, until the Russian
Air Force reluctantly informed Japanese authorities that the crew of one
of its cargo planes had apparently stolen a cow wandering at the edge of
a Siberian airfield, forced the cow into the plane's hold and hastily
taken off for home. Unprepared for live cargo, the Russian crew was
ill-equipped to manage a frightened cow rampaging within the hold. To
save the aircraft and themselves, they shoved the animal out of the
cargo hold as they crossed the Sea of Japan at an altitude of 30,000
feet.

SHORT FINAL...
An Airbus A300 crew arriving late into JFK was told their gate was
occupied and to hold on the ramp until the airplane on their gate pushed
back. Twenty minutes later the crew asked how much longer before that
airplane would push back. Operations responded with, "We'll check on it
and get back to you, please standby, we're busy up here."

Twenty minutes later, Ops added, "That airplane will push as soon as
they find the cockpit crew...the crew should be here any minute since
they landed almost an hour ago." The waiting crew then asked, "What
flight number is that going to be?" "Flight 547 to Dallas", snapped a
busy and irritated voice.

The crew replied, "We've found the crew for you...we're supposed to work
that flight!"


SHORT FINAL
We can't take credit for coming up with this one. It is excerpted from
"Masquerade: The Amazing Camouflage Deceptions of World War II" by
Seymour Reit (Signet, 1980):

[One] enemy decoy, built in occupied Holland, led to a tale that has
been told and retold ever since by veteran Allied pilots. The German
"airfield," constructed with meticulous care, was made almost entirely
of wood.

There were wooden hangars, oil tanks, gun emplacements, trucks, and
aircraft. The Germans took so long in building their wooden decoy that
Allied photo experts had more than enough time to observe and report it.

The day finally came when the decoy was finished, down to the last
wooden plank. And early the following morning, a lone RAF plane crossed
the Channel, came in low, circled the field once, and dropped a large
wooden bomb.


SHORT FINAL...
A travel agent was having a devilish time trying to satisfy her client.
Each time she suggested a sensible airline routing, the client would
pause, as if checking a reference, then politely refuse the itinerary.
Somewhat confused and frustrated, she finally asked, "Perhaps I could
help you more if you told me exactly what you were looking for?"

The client paused again, then she heard an audible sigh over the
telephone. "Well, it's like this," he confessed. "All the flights you
recommend are on two- or three-engine airliners. I would really like to
take this trip on a four-engine plane."

"I see. Let me look some more," she responded as the client listened to
her keyboard in the background. "But, while I'm checking, could you
tell me why it is you only want to fly on a four-engine airplane?" she
asked.

Another sigh. "It's a bit embarrassing, but very simple, really," he
said. "There are no five-engine airplanes."

Wer mehr will:
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/3908/avflash.htm
bzw.
http://www.avweb.com/
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"I hope I die peacefully in my sleep like my Grandfather and not like his passengers..."

[Maverik]

Wo findet man die "Quantas CHecklist", die du angesprochen hast.

Ich denke die Bücher "RODSCHER" und "RODSCHER ZWO" kennt hier auch jeder, oder doch nicht?

Maverik
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Wer denkt, dass er gut ist, hört auf besser zu werden!
Wer den Himmel auf Erden sucht, hat im Erdkundeunterricht nicht aufgepasst!

[vogelmann]

LOL flacher als der letzte gehts ja wohl nicht

Der 2te is auch ned übel
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