Originally Posted by
Adlerdriver
What do you call a blonde skeleton in a closet?
-- 1976 hide-and-seek champion.
And.............another:
Two airline executives go on a moose hunting trip. They hire the cheapest bush pilot they can find and he flies them in his ski plane out into the Alaskan wilderness. After landing on a lake and dropping them off with all their gear, he say, “I’ll be back in a week to pick you up – but you can only have one moose between you. The airplane’s not big enough to carry any more than that.” The execs agree and head out as the pilot flies off.
A week later he lands on the lake, pulls up to the shore and sees the execs waiting for him. All their stuff is packed up and two dead moose are lying at their feet. The pilot is furious. He shuts down and jumps out of the plane. “You idiots, I told you one moose. Now we’re going to have to leave the other here to rot. What were you thinking?”
One of the execs replies, “Last year we paid the pilot an extra $500 and he flew us out.”
The pilot is intrigued and starts thinking. “I could really use the extra money, hold on.” He does some performance calculations in the sand and decides, “Okay – I think we can do it”. They load up all their gear, strap one moose to a wing and the other to the opposite wing. The pilot fires up the plane and they start the takeoff run.
The aircraft hops and skips on the water, lifts off and stays in ground effect until the last possible moment. The pilot pulls up, clearing the trees at the end of the lake by inches. The aircraft climbs out slowly but then shudders, stalls and rolls off into the trees.
Miraculously, both airline executives survive the crash. They pull themselves from the wreckage, brush themselves off and start looking around. One say, “Well, where do you think we are?”
The other says, “It looks like we’re about a half-mile from where we crashed last year.”
I heard that joke before. I read it in the Jeppesen Private Pilot Textbook when they were touching on the subject of weight and balance. Keep the jokes coming guys!