Roost Air Lounge => Current Strip => Topic started by: Frank N. O. on March 14, 2006, 12:35:12 PM
Title: Bounce!
Post by: Frank N. O. on March 14, 2006, 12:35:12 PM
"Do you think he's gonna log all of those?" ROFL :D And what a plane to select! A Pilatus PC-6 Porter Wow! I was actually thinking of asking about that after seeing video proof of it's alleged extreme dive-abilities, from the FL350 site I think.
Btw am I the only one that thinks that Chuck's 172 actually looks more like a 150/152 due to it's shortness (no offence intended at all)?
Well done once again 8) Frank
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: FlyingBlind on March 14, 2006, 02:47:42 PM
Well drawn and not bad :) (not bad because...the Is that you Chuck ? is getting carried out :( no offence!) But i have seen these things happen....its a good strip guys...
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: fireflyr on March 14, 2006, 03:39:35 PM
Because it's oh so true it's hilarious!!
That's how I keep current, logging each bounce as a separate flight. :D
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Ted_Stryker on March 14, 2006, 06:55:34 PM
LOL!!! Great one Mike and Stef!! ;D
When I saw this one, I had a flashback to a cartoon I remember I saw in Private Pilot magazine many years back... It had a student and instructor in the plane, bouncing down the runway.... the instructor is berating his student and saying "I said WATCH THE ENGINE MOUNTS, not WATCH THE ENGINE BOUNCE!"
;D
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: FlyingBlind on March 14, 2006, 09:08:40 PM
When I saw this one, I had a flashback to a cartoon I remember I saw in Private Pilot magazine many years back... It had a student and instructor in the plane, bouncing down the runway.... the instructor is berating his student and saying "I said WATCH THE ENGINE MOUNTS, not WATCH THE ENGINE BOUNCE!"
;D
Now thats a good one :D;D
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on March 14, 2006, 11:22:24 PM
Definitely a 172. You can tell by the window behind the door.
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Stef on March 15, 2006, 12:02:15 AM
Btw am I the only one that thinks that Chuck's 172 actually looks more like a 150/152 due to it's shortness (no offence intended at all)?
Haha! Well, usually when I draw airplanes I look for pictures and then try to "copy" them. But the Cessna 172 (as well as the Hughes 500) appear so often, that I just draw them from memory. Most of the time the Cessna looks a bit shorter than usual, and a bit comicish, I agree... Well, it's a comic and not a documentary, after all!! :)
As for the "Chuck is that you?" line... Heck, we just can't get enough of it! ;D
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Sleek-Jet on March 15, 2006, 02:43:47 AM
Any way someone can make a Cessna sound like that when you bounce??? It would be infinitley better than the "car-hitting-a-brick-wall" sound they make now. ;D ;D
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Mike on March 15, 2006, 06:26:34 AM
Yeah, that would be nice, wouldn't it? I bounced myself off the rwy one time in one of those when I was still a rooky....
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Roland on March 15, 2006, 07:56:36 AM
Aaah, a Pilatus PC 6!! Many thanks, Stef! This is such a brilliant airplane, let me tell you all. I’ve learned all my basic technical skills on this superb aircraft in the Austrian army. My parents had been parachutes and had many jumps of this plane. So I can tell the Pilatus by its sound only. Rugged aircraft, rugged engine, unkaputtbar (undestroyable). I’ve left it for helicopters, but not easily. Always nice to see one again, in nature or in comics.
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on March 15, 2006, 02:37:13 PM
Is that the one they used in Air America? (Speaking of unrealistic flying movies...)
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: MO on March 15, 2006, 03:32:41 PM
Yep. You are right Gulf, they had a couple of Pilatus PC-6s on that movie. Great plane by the way...
Cheers!
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Mike on March 15, 2006, 04:41:35 PM
Air America!!
Another great movie! Probably had more influence on me than Top Gun because I felt "now THIS I can actually go out and do" and migth have something to do why nowadays I fly around in the dessert with a baby blue / baby pooh colored helicopter with a skull painted on the nose . . . . . who knows? could be. . .
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on March 15, 2006, 07:46:42 PM
Ever harrass truckers on the interstate with your helicopter?
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Mike on March 15, 2006, 09:43:30 PM
uhm no... well kind of. I was flying a Twin Star from Florida to LA along Hwy 10 and it was blue, silver and white so it almost looked like a Police Helicopter. Through Texas and Arizona the Hwy is reaaaallllly straight and I got bored so I picked out the speeders (you can tell the guys weaving in and out of traffic and passing everybody) and descended down to their level 100 feet or so on the side of the freeway and when they looked over I motioned them to slow down and gave them the "don't do that" motion with my index finger. You should have seen their eyes and how nicely they drove afterwards. !! HA HA :D You know the signs they have on the side of the highway, where it says "speed controlled by aircraft"? I would have loved to hear the story these people had to tell when they got home!! Sometimes I also fly 500 feet right over them and fix it so that the shadow of the aircraft comes right over them and then stays on the road right in front of them and that gets them to slow down too. It's a lot of fun and gives me the feeling I am helping out.
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on March 15, 2006, 09:48:52 PM
Holy crap, that was you?!!! (j/k)
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Mike on March 15, 2006, 09:50:46 PM
Sure was!!
Although don't flip me off next time this happens to you cause I am not sure if the police is really doing this as well or if the just post signs to scare people.....
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Frank N. O. on March 16, 2006, 03:12:03 AM
LOL Good thing since I can't stand speeders, especially not the kind that weaves wildly thrue traffic etc.
Now you brought it up I finally have an excuse to post this picture :D
Frank
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on March 16, 2006, 03:25:48 AM
:D Awesome picture!
Can you imagine coming over a hill and seeing that chin gun pointed at you?
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Mike on March 16, 2006, 03:48:02 AM
That was probably the last image lots of Sadams troops saw in their lifes...
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: FlyingBlind on March 16, 2006, 01:51:29 PM
Although the chaingun isnt the badass, the TOW missles are (pack a whooping whallop!) ;D
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Aviation Freak on March 16, 2006, 11:47:04 PM
Amazed he didn't call for a re do. ;D Great comic! ;D
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: fliboye on June 02, 2006, 10:14:28 PM
Any way someone can make a Cessna sound like that when you bounce??? It would be infinitley better than the "car-hitting-a-brick-wall" sound they make now. ;D ;D
yeah something like BOOOOOOOOOINNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG THEN YOU HEAR THE INSTRUCTOR WHAT THE ***** WAS THAT I SAID THE TREELINE NOTHE CENTERLINE
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: claudio767 on September 13, 2010, 12:16:06 AM
Well, after a loooong time, digging up the topic... Hey, very nice to see the classics. As I only knew Chicken Wings after the new website was released, I missed all the older stripes.
I cannot say anything about Chuck's landing... My first landing yesterday was terrible... I fly a Cessna 152, but has been a long time since my last flight. So... Boeing, Boeing, Boeing... Poor Cessna!!
There's a joke among aviation enthusiasts and pilots here in Brazil. People say it's a true history. Some says it's only a short story.
Once at São Paulo's airport - Congonhas, a pilot landed a Embraer E-120 Brasilia just like that - bouncing many times. The controller said: "Company 123 on the ground at 45, 46, 47, 48..." The pilot got really mad with that. But all the others were laughing a lot!
Cheers!! Claudio.
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Rooster Cruiser on September 13, 2010, 07:05:25 AM
I can say from experience that the PC-6 is an AWESOME airplane to fly! Wish I could get another chance to fly one.
I ain't gonna say a thing about Chuck's 'landings', other than I will admit to having "Been there... Done that."
Such landings are usually billed as "Arrivals". ::whistle::
RC
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Mike on September 13, 2010, 03:38:44 PM
Hehe, I think we can all relate to this landing, Rooster. I've done a few "Chuck-Landings" myself . . . . ;D maybe that is where the idea comes from . . . ::thinking::
And yes, the PC-6 IS awesome! and so pleasant to work on......
Well, after a loooong time, digging up the topic... Hey, very nice to see the classics. As I only knew Chicken Wings after the new website was released, I missed all the older stripes.
you know we have 3 books with ALL the old strips in them, Claudio !? ;) ;D (* hint hint *)
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: Oddball on September 13, 2010, 03:40:51 PM
Flying from a farmers field I can blame any bouncers on the ruts left from ploughing ;D
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: ZAIZAI on September 15, 2010, 10:46:21 AM
"Do you think he's gonna log all of those?" ROFL :D And what a plane to select! A Pilatus PC-6 Porter Wow! I was actually thinking of asking about that after seeing video proof of it's alleged extreme dive-abilities, from the FL350 site I think.
Btw am I the only one that thinks that Chuck's 172 actually looks more like a 150/152 due to it's shortness (no offence intended at all)?
Well done once again 8) Frank
Frank, the diving abilities of a Porter? I have been freefalling next to one and waving to the pilot for about 15-20 seconds...if it wasn't for the prop (and lack of altitude) I could probably have climbed back in, there are plenty of Youtube films of porters and skydivers around I am sure!
Title: Re: Bounce!
Post by: ZAIZAI on September 15, 2010, 10:59:07 AM
Although the chaingun isnt the badass, the TOW missles are (pack a whooping whallop!) ;D
Thought they where Hellfire missiles on there ::thinking:: TOWs are tube launched. Hellfires are designed to take out TANKS! Quite ironic, one or two of them seems to have been used looking at that picture, on a speeder one assumes?
