Were you a Navy or Marine pilot or back seater?
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Iāve heard pilots missing the arresting cables call it āboltingā comparing it to sitting on the toilet with the seat up. Thatās why they land at full power.
Donāt forget helos, Ospreys, Greyhounds, and other transports.
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I was a passenger. SME they needed to get on board. Subsequent trips where on mail planes that had stall speeds so slow theyād line up and the carrier would catch up to us.
You can tell how old I am. I donāt think they run mail planes anymore. All electronic comms. UNREP of course.
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Railroad RPOās, Railway Post Offices have been gone from passenger trains for quite some time.
Thank you for that history. Iām always touched when reading about the humanity and background of people who have served. I am even more grateful to them.
Well, Iāve never landed on an aircraft carrier, or flown in a fighter plane, but Iām sure it would be a real rush, to say the least! To answer your question, some of my reading led me to the Sierra Hotel term - in fact I found a long list of aviation slang, which was both interesting and amusing.
The scary landing I alluded to in an earlier post upthread - I was 14, with my family on vacation. We were in a commercial (smaller) airline on a short inter-island flight, when the pilot stalled a wing trying to land. Frightful, and a wing just about touched the runway. I watched my dad, a career pilot, turn a whiter shade of pale in the seat ahead of me. (Wait, I think thatās a song!) Although it was an awful landing, I wasnāt old or savvy enough to be properly sh*t scared, @jcostiones.
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