Drunk in charge

[ricardian]

Liquid manure spread over city

Four tons of liquid manure - I wonder what sort of aircraft it was?
I love the comment

We’re a small community. We knew Barry was a drunkard and we saw him fly hazardously before, so we guessed it was him. But I had never seen him this drunk before.”

[TheGreenGoblin]

The article seems to have been pulled from an already dubious source. Mmmh, urban myth although stranger things have happened?

I have heard of and come across top spreading, but 4 tons of muck? Muck spreader runs amok...

[barkingmad]

If you look at the rest of the “news” stories on the worldnewsdailyreport website you’d realise it is prime 1st April material!

[Hydromet]

'404 Page not found', but I don't think that's much loss.
Mind you, I can think of some places where 4 tons of liquid manure dumped on them would be quite an improvement.

[Sisemen]

Having been peripherally involved with the ag spraying business it is obvious that you cannot spray “manure” from an aircraft. Anything sprayed has to be particle free.

[PHXPhlyer]

Not to mention that 8000 lbs in a crop duster is quire a stretch.

PP

[Slasher]

I got a 404 too but there were other I interesting articles there like 16 japs got eaten alive by a school of killer whales. I guess that’s why they’re called ‘killer’.


The only things I’ve ever chucked out of aeroplanes were flour bombs in target comps. Doing the same thing with 4 tons of sh!t would be quite a challenge.

[llondel]

The only things I’ve ever chucked out of aeroplanes were flour bombs in target comps. Doing the same thing with 4 tons of sh!t would be quite a challenge.

I chucked myself out of an aeroplane once. I was a student at the time.

[Slasher]

Did your QFI chuck you out ‘del or left of your own accord?

[llondel]

I did it voluntarily. Floating down on a parachute is actually great fun - back then you got to do your first jump solo, not tandem as now. I was on a static line though, so I didn't have to pull the cord myself. So I've taken off in an aircraft ore times than I've landed in one.

[Ex-Ascot]

I have chucked thousands of folk out of aircraft. I was doing a conversion onto to the Skyvan, the one below to be precise. I had read the book and done two circuits. My instructor who was a good friend was a parachutist as well as parachute pilot. He asked me if I was happy. I sort of erred a bit then he jumped out. Left me with this flying shed with throttles in all the wrong places.

[ian16th]

The Skyvan was the nearest thing to a Baby Beverley!

[Rwy in Sight]

Funny registration this Skyvan in relation to fellow member Barkingmad.

Jumping out of the aircraft and having more take offs on aircraft than landings is fun.

[Slasher]

Good pickup RiS!

Could this be Barking’s future avatar?

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[Ex-Ascot]

Actually guys you had to be Barkingmad to fly it. Fuel gauges didn't work you had to go onto the wings and dip the tanks. To carry max nutters to height you had to have minimum fuel. Rules of the parachute centre. I lost one donk once due to lack of juice. Never flew for the operation again. Don't think I did more than two weekends.

Cleared to land at Cranfield, where the aircraft was based, after dark when the airfield was closed. No runway lights. The owner of the club said no problem you have landing lights on the aircraft. Obviously I had checked them but they didn't work when I came into land.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Has anybody here ever tried to urinate from the Shed while in the air? If so you will know that there is only one sweet spot where the slipstream will carry the yellow peril away. Anywhere else and it is blow back time with often hilarious, if somewhat unhygienic, consequences that can leave people feeling decidedly pissed off.

[1DC]

Remember a twenty questions programme from years ago where they had to guess what a chap had done to make himself unpopular.
Turned out he drove through his village without realising that the muck spreader he was towing hadn't switched off so he sprayed the village with pig *****
..

[llondel]

Has anybody here ever tried to urinate from the Shed while in the air? If so you will know that there is only one sweet spot where the slipstream will carry the yellow peril away. Anywhere else and it is blow back time with often hilarious, if somewhat unhygienic, consequences that can leave people feeling decidedly pissed off.

Off or on?

[ribrash]

Has anybody here ever tried to urinate from the Shed while in the air? If so you will know that there is only one sweet spot where the slipstream will carry the yellow peril away. Anywhere else and it is blow back time with often hilarious, if somewhat unhygienic, consequences that can leave people feeling decidedly pissed off.

Try having a *iss on a windswept Wirral beach such as during this weeks winter league match.The straps of the full length chest waders are buried under all the extra layers of warm clothing.You nearly have to get undressed to pull the waders down.Then you have the problem of trying to find "auld micky " due to the freezing conditions.The problem is not helped by the bird,ship,people watchers equipped with the most powerful bino's known to man watching you. You often hear the shout " look Ma he's got his micky out "

[1DC]

Eastern Airways had Shorts 340's and 360's. I used to fly down to LHR in them and the flight back at night was at 1900. Concorde used to take off at 1900 too and if it beat you to take off the Shorts had to wait about ten minutes until Concords turbulence had subsided..