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    Thumbs up Flight Jokes

    I stumbled upon these and I thought they are really worth sharing.

    At a recent software engineering management course in the US, the participants were given an awkward question to answer. "If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been responsible for the flight control software how many of you would disembark immediately?"

    Among the ensuing forest of raised hands, only one man sat motionless. When asked what he would do, he replied that he would be quite content to stay onboard.

    With his team's software, he said, the plane was unlikely to even taxi as far as the runway, let alone take off.
    "Welcome to Las Vegas, Nevada. We'd like to thank you for flying Southwest Airlines, and on behalf of the flight deck we'd also like to extend a very special and very happy 101st Birthday to a gentleman seated near the front of the aircraft." (scattered applause) "So... if you happen to see the Captain on the way out, mind his walker, shake his hand, and wish him well with another 100 years working here at Southwest Airlines."
    From a Southwest Airlines employee: "There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane."
    From the pilot during his welcome message: "We are pleased to have some of the best flight attendants in the industry. Unfortunately none of them are on this flight."
    Another flight attendant's comment on a less than perfect landing: "We ask you to please remain seated as Captain Kangaroo bounces us to the terminal."
    After a real crusher of a landing in Phoenix, the flight attendant got on the PA and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats until Captain Crash and the crew have brought the aircraft to a screeching halt up against the gate. And, once the tire smoke has cleared and the warning bells are silenced, we'll open the door and you can pick your way through the wreckage to the terminal."
    From a Southwest Airlines employee: "Welcome aboard Southwest Flight XXX to YYY. To operate your seatbelt, insert the metal tab into the buckle, and pull tight. It works just like every other seatbelt and if you don't know how to operate one, you probably shouldn't be out in public unsupervised. In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks will descend from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your face. If you have a small child traveling with you, secure your mask before assisting with theirs. If you are traveling with two small children, decide now which one you love more."
    Part of a flight attendant's arrival announcement: "We'd like to thank you folks for flying with us today. And, the next time you get the insane urge to go blasting through the skies in a pressurized metal tube, we hope you'll think of us here at US Airways."
    The progress of the student during his flight training was not good enough to allow him to continue the course and to become a fighter pilot. He had to leave the pilot training outfit but he wanted to remain in the Air Force and could be transferred into another sector. Asked for his preferences he replied -

    "AAA, Anti Aircraft Artillery, because if I don't fly - nobody will!"

    Tower: "Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o'clock, 6 miles!"

    Delta 351: "Give us another hint! We have digital watches!"
    The rich-and-famous don't always succeed in flaunting the rules, as the world-boxing champion learned on one flight. While the aircraft was pushed back, the flight attendant asked him to buckle his seatbelt.

    The champ replied, "Superman don't need no seatbelt!"

    Without missing a beat, the savvy flight attendant replied ?Superman don't need no airplane, either!"

    The boxer buckled up without another word.
    "Squawks" are problems noted by pilots and left for maintenance crews to fix before the next flight. Here are some actual maintenance complaints logged by pilots and the replies from the maintenance crews.
    (P) is the problem found by the pilot, (S) is the solution to the problem by the maintenance crew:

    (P) Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
    (S) Almost replaced left inside main tire.

    (P) Test flight OK, except auto land very rough.
    (S) Auto land not installed on this aircraft.

    (P) # 2 propeller seeping prop fluid.
    (S) # 2 propeller seepage normal -- # 1, # 3, and # 4 propellers lack normal seepage.

    (P) Something loose in cockpit.
    (S) Something tightened in cockpit.

    (P) Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
    (S) Evidence removed.

    (P) DME volume unbelievably loud.
    (S) Volume set to more believable level.

    (P) Dead bugs on windshield.
    (S) Live bugs on order.

    (P) Autopilot in altitude hold mode produces a 200 fpm descent.
    (S) Cannot reproduce problems on ground.

    (P) IFF inoperative.
    (S) IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.

    (P) Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
    (S) That's what they're there for.

    (P) Number three engine missing.
    (S) Engine found on right wing after brief search.

    (P) Aircraft handles funny.
    (S) Aircraft warned to straighten up, "fly right," and be serious.

    (P) Target Radar hums.
    (S) Reprogrammed Target Radar with the words.
    The propeller is just a big fan in front of the plane used to keep the pilot cool. When it stops, you can actually watch the pilot start sweating.


    I laughed so much. I hope you guys do too.
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    George Carlin has a bunch of flying jokes, but I don't think I'm allowed to repeat them here.
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    Pretty good

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    I take it you fly planes a lot, then?
    When your mama jokes aren't funny anymore, who ya gonna call?
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    Another flight attendant's comment on a less than perfect landing: "We ask you to please remain seated as Captain Kangaroo bounces us to the terminal."




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    Quote Originally Posted by Good Ship Chuckle
    I take it you fly planes a lot, then?
    He's one of the local flight simmers. Beirut is a big one as well, and I dabble in the art.

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    Let me add a few I've collected off the net over the years:

    (Supposedly actual exchanges between pilots and control towers)

    Note: For those that don't know, "The Sled"is the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane from the 1960's and still the fastest airplane.


    In his book, "Sled Driver", SR-71 Blackbird pilot Brian Shul writes: "I'll always remember a certain radio exchange that occurred one day as Walt (my back-seater) and I were screaming across Southern California 13 miles high. We were monitoring various radio transmissions from other aircraft as we entered Los Angeles airspace. Though they didn't really control us, they did monitor our movement across their scope.


    I heard a Cessna ask for a readout of its ground speed."90 knots" Center replied. Moments later, a Twin Beech required the same. "120 knots,"
    Center answered. We weren't the only ones proud of our ground speed that day as almost instantly an F-18 smugly transmitted, "Ah, Center, Dusty 52 requests ground speed readout." There was a slight pause, then the response, "525 knots on the ground, Dusty." Another silent pause.
    As I was thinking to myself how ripe a situation this was, I heard a familiar click of a radio transmission coming from my back-seater. It was at that precise moment I realized Walt and I had become a real crew, for we were both thinking in unison. "Center, Aspen 20, you got a ground speed readout for us?" There was a longer than normal pause.... "Aspen, I show 1,742 knots" (That's about 2004.658 mph who don't know)
    No further inquiries were heard on that frequency.
    --------------------------------------------------
    In another famous SR-71 story, Los Angeles Center reported receiving a request for clearance to FL 600 (60,000ft). The incredulous controller, with some disdain in his voice, asked, "How do you plan to get up to 60,000 feet?
    The pilot (obviously a sled driver), responded, "We don't plan to go up to it; we plan to go down to it." He was cleared.
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    The pilot was sitting in his seat and pulled out a .38 revolver. He placed it on top of the instrument panel, and then asked the navigator,
    "Do you know what I use this for?"
    The navigator replied timidly, "No, what's it for?" The pilot responded, "I use this on navigators who get me lost!"
    The navigator proceeded to pull out a .45 and place it on his chart table.
    The pilot asked, "What's that for?" "To be honest sir," the navigator replied, "I'll know we're lost before you will."
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    When Hillary Clinton visited Iraq last month the Army Blackhawk helicopter used to transport the Senator was given the call sign "broomstick one". And they say the Army has no sense of humor!
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    Tower: "TWA 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 Degrees."
    TWA 2341: "Center, we are at 35,000 feet. How much noise can we make up here?"
    Tower: "Sir, have you ever heard the noise a 747 makes when it hits a 727?"

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    From an unknown aircraft waiting in a very long takeoff line of aircraft "I'm ****** bored!"


    Ground Traffic Control: "Last aircraft transmitting, identify yourself immediately!"


    Unknown aircraft: "I said I was f...ing bored, not ****** stupid!"

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    O'Hare Approach Control to a 747: "United 329 heavy, your traffic is a Fokker, one o'clock, three miles, Eastbound."


    United 329: "Approach, I've always wanted to say this...I've got the little Fokker in sight."

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    A student became lost during a solo cross-country flight. While attempting to locate the aircraft on radar, ATC asked, "What was your lastknown position?"


    Student: "When I was number one for takeoff."

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    A DC-10 had come in a little hot and thus had an exceedingly long roll out after touching down. San Jose Tower Noted:


    "American 751, make a hard right turn at the end of the runway, if you are able. If you are not able, take the Guadeloupe exit off Highway 101, make a right at the lights and return to the airport."

    --------------------------

    There's a story about the military pilot calling for a priority landing because his single-engine jet fighter was running "a bit peaked".

    Air Traffic Control told the fighter jock that he was number two, behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down.

    "Ah," the fighter pilot remarked, "The dreaded seven-engine approach"

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    A Pan Am 727 flight, waiting for start clearance in Munich, overheard the following: Lufthansa (in German): "Ground, what is our start clearance time?"

    Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English."

    Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?"

    Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): "Because you lost the bloody war!"

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    Tower: "Eastern 702, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on frequency 124.7"

    Eastern 702: "Tower, Eastern 702 switching to Departure. By the way, after we lifted off we saw some kind of dead animal on the far end of the runway."

    Tower: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff behind Eastern 702, contact Departure on frequency 124.7, did you copy that report from Eastern 702?"

    Continental 635: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff, roger; and yes, we copied Eastern... we've already notified our caterers."

    ----------------------------

    One day the pilot of a Cherokee 180 was told by the tower to hold short of the active runway while a DC-8 landed. The DC-8 landed, rolled out, turned around, and taxied back past the Cherokee.



    Some quick-wittedcomedian in the DC-8 crew got on the radio and said, "What a cute little plane. Did you make it all by yourself?"

    The Cherokee pilot, not about to let the insult go by, came back with a real zinger: "I made it out of DC-8 parts. Another landing like yours and I'd have enough parts for another one."

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    The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them.


    So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.

    Speedbird 206: "Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."

    Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."

    The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.

    Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"

    Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."

    Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"

    Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, -- And I didn't land."

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    While taxiing at London's Gatwick Airport, the crew of a US Air flight departing for Ft. Lauderdale made a wrong turn and came nose to nose with a United 727.

    An irate female ground controller lashed out at the US Air crew, screaming: "US Air 2771, where the hell are you going?! I told you to turn right onto Charlie taxiway! You turned right on Delta! Stop right there.
    I know it's difficult for you to tell the difference between C and D, but get it right!" Continuing her rage to the embarrassed crew, she was now shouting hysterically: "God! Now you've screwed everything up!
    It'll take forever to sort this out! You stay right there and don't move till I tell you to! You can expect progressive taxi instructions in about half an hour, and I want you to go exactly where I tell you, when I
    tell you, and how I tell you! You got that, US Air 2771?"

    "Yes, ma'am," the humbled crew responded.

    Naturally, the ground control communications frequency fell terribly silent after the verbal bashing of US Air 2771. Nobody wanted to chance engaging the irate ground controller in her current state of mind. Tension in every cockpit out around Gatwick was definitely running high.

    Just then an unknown pilot broke the silence and keyed his microphone asking: "Wasn't I married to you once?"
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    Thanks for posting.


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    The pilot was sitting in his seat and pulled out a .38 revolver. He placed it on top of the instrument panel, and then asked the navigator,
    "Do you know what I use this for?"
    The navigator replied timidly, "No, what's it for?" The pilot responded, "I use this on navigators who get me lost!"
    The navigator proceeded to pull out a .45 and place it on his chart table.
    The pilot asked, "What's that for?" "To be honest sir," the navigator replied, "I'll know we're lost before you will."
    Hilarious,

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    Quote Originally Posted by drone
    George Carlin has a bunch of flying jokes, but I don't think I'm allowed to repeat them here.
    some of them are safe..

    for example...

    "A thing that irritates me is when you´re at an airport and when it´s time to board they tell you 'come on get on the plane'

    I always say...' ***** you lady...i´m getting IN the plane!....let Evil Knievel get ON the plane....there´s considerably less wind in here!'
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    Quote Originally Posted by spmetla



    The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them.


    So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.

    Speedbird 206: "Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."

    Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."

    The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.

    Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"

    Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."

    Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"

    Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, -- And I didn't land."
    that one is bloody classic
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    There's a story about the military pilot calling for a priority landing because his single-engine jet fighter was running "a bit peaked".

    Air Traffic Control told the fighter jock that he was number two, behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down.

    "Ah," the fighter pilot remarked, "The dreaded seven-engine approach"
    Great one.

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    The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them.


    So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.

    Speedbird 206: "Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."

    Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."

    The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.

    Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"

    Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."

    Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"

    Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, -- And I didn't land."
    Those last two lines are brilliant.

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    Actually, the end of that one is actually:

    Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, haff you not been to Frankfurt before?!!"

    Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, but a long time ago. In 1944, and in a different type of Boeing. I didn't land. I just dropped something off.
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    Thanks for the correction, added it to my collection. Let me add one more and no offense to our Irish patrons:

    Irish Airplane coming into land...

    Pilot 1: Paddy! Paddy, the Runway is too short!
    Pilot 2: I know Shaemus! But look at the Width of it!

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