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Found this today......

Rayelljay

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Tower: "Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o'clock, 6 miles!"
Delta 351: "Give us another hint! We have digital watches!"

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?"

From an unknown aircraft waiting in a very long takeof...f queue: "I'm f....ing bored!"
Ground Traffic Control: "Last aircraft transmitting, identify yourself immediately!"
Unknown aircraft: "I said I was f...ing bored, not f....ing stupid!"

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."

A student became lost during a solo cross-country flight. While attempting to locate the aircraft on radar, ATC asked,"What was your last known position?"
Student: "When I was number one for takeoff?"

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."

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!"

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-witted comedian 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'll have enough parts for another one."

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."

While taxiing at London 's 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?"
 
Good one..!!

I guess it's just as good we don't know what goes on up there..!! :roflblack: thanks..!!
 
There was one floating around a few years ago about a national airline which shall not be named.
Blank airways flight A 607 approaching Heathrow. Landing instruction please
Tower, Roger, You are cleared to land runway 06, winds calm. You are number one in line. What is your height and position please.
Blank airways A 607: I am 5 ft, 6 inches and I sit up front.
I hope it was a joke.
Those that were in flight activites in the USAF. Think about the "Big MAC" verus "Little MAC" stories/joke. Most not be able to put on here.
Thanks for posting the others. Oldmanzues
 
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When my son was at Edwards he used to send me some of the TFA (Things Falling off Aircraft) problems and solutions...wish I'd not lost them.
 
:shocked: They fell off also?? :shocked:
Sometimes, it is better not to know. Several years ago, a 707 was caught in a severe downdraft and lost a engine. It did not quit working, it fell off the plane. I flew on USAF planes as a courier with crew access to com at times. I used to have black hair, but it is now white.
Oldmanzues
 
When I was with the 43rd Bomb Wing, Little Rock AFB, Arkansas, we had a B-58 Hustler, a supersonic bomber capable of twice the speed of sound, doing a low level supersonic bomb run on a training mission. As they released the simulated weapon, they ask for clearance to 10,000 feet . . . and got a "stand by" from air traffic control! They asked again, and got an angry: "I told you to stand by" . . . They asked a third time for an immediate clearance to 10,000 feet . . . and then told air traffic control they just hit Memphis with a sonic boom . . . a totally different voice came on and gave them immediate clearance to 10,000. Seems there was a trainee at air traffic control, who's supervisor stepped away from the console "for just a moment" . . . and the trainee did not realize that an aircraft using that call sign was moving at four times the speed of a 727 . . . "Just a moment" equates to a lot of miles at 1,400 knots indicated airspeed! The Hustler had the same engine as the F-4 . . . but twice as many!b58hustler.jpg
 
Good ones! On my last gig in Iraq, one of my associates was a former State Police Pilot from ********. We were coming back from training one day and he was talking about some of his experiences; including some fairly hairy sounding landings. One of our fellow contractors asks if it's true that landings are much more difficult than take offs? My bud says, Nah! Landings are easy, when you run out of gas, or if something really important breaks on the plane; the one thing that's gonna happen for sure is.........................you'll come back to the earth. :yikes:
 
A pilot of a fixed wing aircraft earns the majority of his pay in the first and last seven seconds of the flight! Most of the rest of the time, the airplane does all the work, quite well!
 
That reminds me of a story...
A pilot of a one of those big cargo jobbies was talking to a fighter pilot who was in the vicinity...
"Watch this!" the fighter jockey says... He goes SCREA<IMING by the cargo plane fullbore, cranks it hard right, hard left, does a barrel roll,, flips over and slows to let the big plane slide up beside him...
"What'd you think of that? he says.
"Yeah... watch this now...", says the cargo plane's pilot.
And his ship drones on across the sky for about seven minutes; straight and true...
"What happened? What was so special about that?"
"Easy. I went and took a leak, made myself a pot of coffee, and grabbed a donut to snack on!"
 
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