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The British call it "marshalling", WE call it "taxiiing" (reminds me of the old commercial... YOU call it corn, WE call it maize).
Anyone who's ever worked on the Flight Line has seen stuff like this.
Hella funny.
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,580 posts)I never knew those formal, stiff-upper-lip Brits could dance!
This is hilarious!
*fans self*
Thank you!
Suich
(10,642 posts)Who knew???
rofl: :
WillParkinson
(16,862 posts)And each one of them was well worth it! He's a pretty damn good dancer. And from what I could see, he looked pretty cute.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...but the cleverest thing we did was to park the nosewheel of the aircraft on a quarter - a test of precision.
THIS is way cooler!
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Sometimes just a tilt of the head one way or the other was all it took to get a pilot to make a tiny correction. Others weren't so quick on the uptake so other times it took a hip.
I actually bet a pilot once that he couldn't get the X between his nose wheels by himself, without my help. Damn did he come close! The X was between the wheels but he went about 8" too far. He actually got out of the plane to look, and when he tried to argue, his BN (A-6 bombardier/navigator) got out too and mediated. I had my $100 before the end of the day!
We used to have a blast on the flight line.
Good times.