Just an Earth-Bound Misfit: The Rantings of an Aging, Armed, Pinko Chick

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Monday, August 31, 2020

Fokker Into London

80 years ago, it would have been a different Fokker and it would have been met by the RAF.

10 comments:

Dai euphonia said...: Fokker was a Dutch builder of aircraft, of course; 8/31/2020 7:32 PM
CenterPuke88 said...: Fokker was a Dutch company that started in Germany from 1912 until 1919, when it moved to the Netherlands.

Lovely video to watch, excellent CRM and sterile cockpit routine despite the lovely view. Reminds me how lucky we were to have a reasonable FAM trip program before the D.C. bureaucrats and 9/11 screwed it up. Seeing how things worked from a commercial cockpit made a huge difference in how you approached controlling.; 8/31/2020 7:48 PM
Antibubba said...: Neat!; 8/31/2020 8:52 PM
Comrade Misfit said...: It was an obscure reference to and old joke whose punchline was “Yah, but them folkers were flying Messerschmidts”; 8/31/2020 9:13 PM
CenterPuke88 said...: Favorite Captain reply in the 90’s when we called traffic as a Fokker 100...”We got that Fokker in sight”; 8/31/2020 10:10 PM
DTWND said...: CP, Mesaba airlines flew Fokker 100’s in and out of Detroit back in the 80’s and early 90’s. We always enjoyed calling traffic as an FK ten, and when they reported them in sight, told the pilots, “Follow that Fokker, cleared visual approach.”

Dale; 8/31/2020 10:28 PM
Deadstick said...: CP88, my daughter outdid your FAM trip. She got to watch the Checkerboard Approach into Kai Tak from a 747 jumpseat, thanks to a JAL captain who was hoping to get lucky...;-); 9/01/2020 7:57 AM
CenterPuke88 said...: Deadstick, well he probably got to hear her squeal on the turn to final...there are (or were) a couple of cockpit videos of that approach years ago, impressively insane.

Dale, even better was when a Fokker was catching someone (they were notoriously slow, especially in the climb), you could shame the other pilot into speeding up.; 9/01/2020 8:40 AM
Tod Germanica said...: The Fokker types generally lacked the range to reach England. The German Air Service mostly used large multi engine Zeppelin Staaken or Gotha type airplanes following the failure of the Zeppelin and Shute Lantz airships. Not a very successful campaign in terms of damage or casualties but it did force the RAF to divert fighter planes from the Western Front. And it did terrorize and galvanize Britain, leading to their preparedness and 2nd victory over German air might in 1940.; 9/01/2020 10:19 AM
Tod Germanica said...: Oh, my math is off, not WWI. That Dutch model 21 with the wheel pants was the only Fokker that I remember that fought in the 2nd great unpleasantness, and not for very long before the luftwaffe got them all.; 9/01/2020 10:42 AM