chase4 Loc: Punta Corona, California

A Boeing-777 wide-body jetliner was lumbering along at 800 km/hour at 33,000 feet when a cocky F-17 fighter jet flashed by at Mach 2.

The F-17 pilot decided to show off. On his state of the art radio (that is part of his state of the art 3-D & million dollar headset), the F-17 youngster told the 777 pilot, "Hey Captain, watch this!"
Then he promptly went into a barrel roll, followed by a steep, unimaginable vertical climb. He then finished as the F-17 screamed down at impossible G's before leveling off at almost sea level.

The F-17 pilot asked the 777 pilot what he thought of that!

The 777 pilot said, "That was truly impressive, but watch this!" The 777 chugged along for about 5 minutes at the steady 800 km/hour, and then the 777 pilot came back on and said, "What did you think of that?"

Puzzled, the cocky F-17 pilot asked, "What did you do?"

The 777 pilot chuckled and said, "I stood up, stretched my legs, walked to the back, went to the can to take a whiz, then got a cup of coffee and a cinnamon roll and secured a date for the next 3 nights in a five-star hotel with the lead flight attendant, paid for by the company."

LESSON OF LIFE: When you are young and foolish, speed and flash may seem like a good thing! When you get older and smarter, comfort and dullness is not such a bad thing! It's called S.O.S. (Slower, Older and Smarter!)

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jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

cessnalvr Loc: West virginia

Thats a good one

ebbote Loc: Hockley, Texas

That works for me.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

dallis Loc: Lompoc, Ca.

This is a funny story but I think it is better told using an F-16 (it beat out the F-17 prototype in a 1974 AF competition), the 777 didn't even exist then. The story as I first heard it used an F-16 and a B-52 which makes it a bit funnier because of the interaction between AF bomber and fighter pilots.

cameranut Loc: North Carolina

I have my doubts about being smarter but the slower and older thing is sure starting to kick in big time.

hookedupin2005 Loc: Northwestern New Mexico

As I got slower and older, I DID get smarter; I stopped trying to be smarter than my kids.

Martys Loc: Lubec, Maine

Think I'll go get a cup of coffee

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Think I will go talk to the lead flight attendant

Don

Beard43 Loc: End of the Oregon Trail

It reminds me of the story of the wise guy F-15 pilot showing off to a GA pilot who had asked the tower for airspeed and altitude. He was at mach 2 and 40,000. An SR-71 couldn't resist and asked for the same. He was at 80,000 and mach 3. No more from the F-15.

Ron

Jesu S

A B-52 with flight attendants?

dallis Loc: Lompoc, Ca.

Yeah, kind of right there with an F-17 that didn't exist for years before the 777 first flew. It's a very old joke and is usually told as I suggested, no stews but the bomber pilot can get up go pee and get a cup of coffee.

DickC Loc: NE Washington state