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Major tongue tripping going on today.
"Proceed on course. Traffic no longer a facor."
"Proceed on course. Traffic no longer a facor."
Major tongue tripping going on today.
"Proceed on course. Traffic no longer a facor."
I don't get it. What is the problem there?
There's usually a well pronounced 't' in facTor.
I'm recalling, "Meet the Parents".I'm recalling...
".. follow that Fokker on the downwind "
Slightly off topic but we start down the road of what people say in an emergency.
A good friend of mine was stationed on the Carrier USS Kittyhawk flying as a Navigator? on A-3’s.
As they shot off the deck the left engine caught fire. They declared an emergency and began setting up to return to the carrier on the remaining engine. As they were lining up with the carrier the fire spread to the right engine. Now my friend had heard the recordings of other crews ejecting from aircraft and they were always panicked screaming calls of “WE’RE EJECTING, WE’RE EJECTING WE’RE EJECTING.” He had had couple minutes to think about what he would say if they had to eject, and when it became clear they were going to eject, he calmly made the call “This is Navy XXX we are ejecting” and then he pulled the ejection handle.
Afterwards he listen to the tape of his radio call and thought they had the wrong tape as his call came out sounding like the panicked “WE’RE EJECTING, WE’RE EJECTING WE’RE EJECTING.” Funny what adrenalin will do to you.
Brian
Funny story, but the Navy A-3 Skywarriors were never equipped with ejection seats.
Funny story, but the Navy A-3 Skywarriors were never equipped with ejection seats.
It's all about the story, not the airplane. Heck, they didn't even care about the stinking airplane anyway. Even if it was about the airplane....in the story, they ejected, didn't they?
John
I'm recalling...
".. follow that Fokker on the downwind "