And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Oh, and $5 cash to the first guy who finds or makes a suitable HQ photoshopped pic of an eagle rocking a wooden pegleg and a crutch (and perhaps a tin cup for charity donations), to go with this shot. ;)
Fun part is trying to clear the bird bits from the pitot lines. The opening is sharp and I’ll bet there’s a really nice plug of eagle about where that foot is…. Hate birdstrikes; they really reek.
I don't know what that is.
ReplyDeletePitot tube, probably on a jet. Used to measure airspeed. Heated to keep it from icing up.
ReplyDeleteLooks like an eagle got in the way.
Oh, and $5 cash to the first guy who finds or makes a suitable HQ photoshopped pic of an eagle rocking a wooden pegleg and a crutch (and perhaps a tin cup for charity donations), to go with this shot. ;)
DeleteAnd on his income tax form, where it asks for "occupation", he writes in "bird enema deliveryman".
ReplyDeleteFun part is trying to clear the bird bits from the pitot lines. The opening is sharp and I’ll bet there’s a really nice plug of eagle about where that foot is…. Hate birdstrikes; they really reek.
ReplyDeleteThat's a replace, purge line, clean, functional ck, leak ck., CATIII and ETOPS recert.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the FAA, there are 19,000 birdstrikes per year. Birdstrike has its own form to file.
ReplyDeleteInteresting Fun Fact: The pitot tube opening is perfectly sized to admit a wasp or mud dauber.
ReplyDeleteJust wasn't his day....
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