Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Yes. Yes, those are port-a-potties.
That’s a $hitty landing!
Is this what you could call a failed blue water trap?
Actually, I’d call that a blue water divert.
First you say it, then you crash into it.
Salt in the wound, you are now the proud owner of a dozen port-a-potties, slightly damaged.
New, Low Tech Crash Barriers!
Who woulda thunk it?
It even made the early part of the news here in Wichita. We have a thing about airplanes.
Is this general aviations answer to NASCARs SAFER barriers?
Seems like I was taught (and we practiced) “below pattern altitude, if the fire goes out, establish best glide straight ahead, and pray. If you can’t do both, pray.”
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Crashed upside down in the porta-johns is no way to go through life son!
At least it was a storage yard for the johns, and not huge gummint event where they were, like , in full acquistion and retention mode.
What’s that saying, Lex?
Better to die than look bad?
That’s bad, fer sure.
Rick,
The second part of that quote is appropriate here: “But it is possible to do both.”
Cheers,
Nose
Curtis wins!
“Red over white, you’re all right.
Red over red, you’re stopping in the head.”
Is death by porta-john same same ignominiously being run over by a garbage truck?
Yes, a good landing…pilot walked away from this crap.
A rare case where the pilot says “oh shiat” AFTER the crash.
In olden tymes the props used a ‘dummy deck’ to practise carrier landings with ‘paddles’ waving. Here we see a ‘dunny’ (Oz slang for the outhouse) landing on the ‘poop’ deck? Glad it was one he could walk away from (but smell bad). http://en.mimi.hu/boating/poop_deck.html
Too busy fumbling with his fly to land correctly.
He finally learned how to get a head in life.
…and if he was a naval aviator his new call sign would be “Flush”?
And I hope someone stops yanking his chain about it!
(‘Septic Tanks’ is Oz rhyming slang for youse know whom)
I love the way they report these things. Couldn’t they have a pilot on retainer to run a story by before they print it?
“he just took a nosedive”
‘but the ground came rushing up” (I’ll bet the ground stayed right where it was and the plane rushed down.)
“If he had made the runway, he would have landed a lot harder than he did by impacting with those Sani-Cans and the wood pile,” Blair said. “It probably saved his life, I would think.”
That statement takes the cake.
Money quote:
“Investigators say the toilets and the wood chips cushioned a potentially dangerous landing.”
Next best thing to a ballistic recovery chute!
The new poster child for the term $hit out of Luck.