I think there was some strange smoking going on this weekend because I heard some great lines.

1. From a 170 driver. We did some stuff to my 0-300 I can't tell you about but, we now get 170 horsepower out of it!

2. If you get a 180 you can actually do backcountry flying. You can't get there in a 170 but in a 180 you can go to Idaho.

3. Your kids are very well behaved.

Best line heard at a fly-in:
"Nice beaver!"....... followed by the sound of a slap.

buzzlatka wrote:you get a 180 you can actually do backcountry flying. You can't get there in a 170 but in a 180 you can go to Idaho.

sounds like he doesn't know what he's talking about

robw56 wrote:

buzzlatka wrote:you get a 180 you can actually do backcountry flying. You can't get there in a 170 but in a 180 you can go to Idaho.

sounds like he doesn't know what he's talking about

Most of us don't know what we're talking about, but that hasn't ever stopped us...so why should these folks be any different?...

I just thought it was a funny statement because the person that said that was most likely a 170 pilot (buzzlatka just attended a 170 fly in this weekend). The guy doubts his own airplane and thinks he can't use it to fly the backcountry. So I posted a pic of two 170s at what some people call the most difficult airstrip in the Idaho backcountry.

He was a 180 guy that I didn't know.

Overhead at Arlington many years ago, standing between a go-fast composite low wing, and a big-tire taildragger.
Old Fart #1 turns to Old Fart #2, point at the tail dragger and says:

"You know what I say? Why go where Boeing goes."

Taxiing in the other day I wound up nose to nose with an RV driver who was taxiing out. I stood on the rudder and bombed off the taxiway out through some grass and rough stuff. He came back on the radio and said you need two more tires to be a 4-wheel drive. My response was simple..."You gotta have two fat tires" Greg Swingle!

After getting out of my sweet ass C150 trainer at my 1st fly in after getting my PPL, an old timer sitting on the porch of the "terminal" (this was at Paso Robles, CA) said with a western drawl as I walked up "So you cheated death again, huh?"

So pretty much now every time I give someone a ride I end with that statement.

"Mooney's don't do well on dirt/grass and wouldn't ever be in the backcountry!"

piperpainter wrote:"Mooney's don't do well on dirt/grass and wouldn't ever be in the backcountry!"

So PP, wh at is that thing you are flying out there in the Idaho backcountry...a low wing C-170?

I was standing in line at Friar Tuck's, just outside the airport fence at OSH, several years ago. A young pilot was mesmerizing his audience with his tales of daring-do in all sorts of different airplanes, especially with his vast experience in a Pitts S2. Calculating from his comments that he would have to have several thousand hours to fly that many different airplanes, I interrupted him and asked how long he'd been flying--and he said "I have almost 300 hours!" To me, that's like asking a 6 year old the day after his 6th birthday how old he is, and he says, "I'm almost 7". So I said, "I guess my couple thousand hours must count for something, then." Silence.

Cary

We were at a military airshow with the Albatross a few years back. Show was just about over and there were these two older guys enjoying the shade under the wing... There was a raincloud nearby that produced a rainbow... One guy says " you know , I kinda like rainbows" the other guys looks at him and says,... " me too , as long as it's not on a bumper sticker".... I just about fell over laughing ...

I was at an airshow at Chino (I think) 35 yrs ago and there was some arm candy wearing a T-shirt that said on the rather prominent front "A Good Man is Hard to Find". Well I tried to be discrete with my observations as she approached and passed on a gentleman's arm, but after she went by I just had to see if her posterior was as nice looking as the front had been. When I looked I saw the printing on the back of the T-shirt, which said "...And a hard man is good to find!" I busted out laughing.....

lc

"well, I got to thinking... wouldn't it be funny if..."

funny story

ending with
"true story"

low rider wrote:We were at a military airshow with the Albatross a few years back. Show was just about over and there were these two older guys enjoying the shade under the wing... There was a raincloud nearby that produced a rainbow... One guy says " you know , I kinda like rainbows" the other guys looks at him and says,... " me too , as long as it's not on a bumper sticker".... I just about fell over laughing ...

OK, that made me laugh! My wife, God bless her bought a bright red shirt at an air show that says
REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT, loves to ware it around the old farts at the airport restaurant, sort of suprised me.

Instructor heading out with new student comments " Yeah we are going to go out and scare the crap out of each other today". Same instructor when questioned about the max demonstrated Xwind component of the aircraft says, "Well I guess that would be when you have to land on one wheel and one wingtip".

"Hold my beer and watch this"

"I sure as hell can land Mile High"

"I meant to do that"

"A gust got me"

"It was a good landing, I walked away didn't I ?"

That would have been a good landing except for that sudden gust of gravity.

Not necessarily at a flyin but flying with my instructor about 20 hrs into my PPL doing touch and goes....and things were not going really well with the landings.
After about the 5th landing my young instructor asks "Do you ever drink?"
My reply was " Only if I am alone or with someone".
He never said another word to me...and my landings didn't get any better ...either.
HC