tomad Loc: North Carolina

An Airbus 380 is on its way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 km/h at 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with a Tempo Mach 2 appears.

The pilot of the fighter jet slows down, flies alongside the Airbus and greets the pilot of the passenger plane by radio: "Airbus, boring flight isn’t it? Now have a look here!"

He rolls his jet on its back, accelerates, breaks through the sound barrier, rises rapidly to a dizzying height, and then swoops down almost to sea level in a breathtaking dive. He loops back next to the Airbus and asks: "Well, how was that?"

The Airbus pilot answers: "Very impressive, but watch this!"

The jet pilot watches the Airbus, but nothing happens. It continues to fly straight, at the same speed. After 15 minutes, the Airbus pilot radios, "Well, how was that?

Confused, the jet pilot asks, "What did you do?"

The AirBus pilot laughs and says: "I got up, stretched my legs, walked to the back of the aircraft to use the washroom, then got a cup of coffee and a chocolate fudge pastry."

The moral of the story is: When you’re young, speed and adrenaline seems to be great. But as you get older and wiser, you learn that comfort and peace are more important.

This is called S.O.S.: Slower, Older and Smarter.
Dedicated to all my senior friends ~ it’s time to slow down and enjoy the rest of the trip.

Susan yamakawa

😂😂😂

HRBIEL Loc: Rapid City, SD

Heard that same joke between a fighter pilot and a Buf (B52) driver. The Buf pilot’s reply was that he shut down 2 engines!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Not to mention the AirBus pilot was getting paid a lot more and got to spend paid time at some really nice destinations, including home with the family fairly often. And I bet his seat was more comfortable, and he was working in shirt sleeve conditions instead of a pressure suit.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

FredCM Loc: Central Illinois

I've flown on an A380, nice plane, very smooth ride. Luggage retrieval can be an issue, rubbing shoulders with 500 other people. If you want to get a good case of the willies check out the Emirates Air commercials with the woman on the very top of the Burj Khalifa. Google will give you a choice of several. A380 in the background.

Stephan G

At the same time, on a hilly farm in Tennessee, the young bull jumped around the old bull, looking to the cows grazing down in the dell, and said, "Let's run down there and get some cows!" The elder replied, "No, we will walk down, and get them all." (Related to me by a farmer in Tennessee.)

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Yes, I've seen that commercial and the "making of it."

LeRoy V. Loc: Oro Valley, Az

BebuLamar

Many of the A380's have been in storage and not in use. The A380 purchase was one that many airlines regret. While the A320 Neo may eat Boeing 737 Max the Boeing 777 ate the A380 lunches. Airbus introduced the A350 to try to compete with Boeing in that segment. The A340 was also a commercial failure.

Moondoggie Loc: Southern California

That's a good one.

NDMarks Loc: Dublin, Ca

Regarding hearing the same joke only with a BUF (B52), I heard the same lines with an F-16 fighter and a C-130 transport. By the way, would you care to let everyone know what the BUF or BUFF stands for?? Ha Ha). I have decided that what being in a hurry gets you is closer to dying.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Those fighter jockeys can be a bit "Different".

My Dad was the head ground crew foreman for Eastern Airlines at Lambert Field St Louis. He was also the Shop Steward and State Vice President for the Airline Workers and Machinist's Union the local included all the airlines and the people at the McDonald factory which at the time was building the F4 Phantom. The head test pilot was a friend of his and they were fishing and hunting buddies.
Once when Dad was in DC on business he ran into his friend who was there giving members of Congress joyrides in the latest F4 version to try and get them to buy some more of them. His friend said some senator had just canceled on him after the plane was fueled. They either had to pump the fuel out again (apparently a pain in the rear) or he had to go up and burn it off. Did Dad want a ride? Well Dad had the time and had been only 1 hour from his pilot's license and military multiengine rating in a special program for Packard Motor employees when the war ended. Because his job shut down the week after the war ended he was driving a cab and he was a newlywed with a baby coming in October (me) he couldn't afford to pay for that one hour. But loved flying in just about anything so he said yes. But you can go fast, just don't do anything crazy, I just ate lunch. His buddy said OK, with a straight face.
So Dad got fitted for a G-Suit and Helmet (that was a clue, the Congress critters flew in shirt sleeves and helmet). They sedately taxied out and took off west into the wind.
At lift off, the fun started:
1. both afterburners on wartime emergency and climbing almost straight up to about 30,000 feet
2. rolled and looped at speed, so they were now headed East
3. 20 miles out to sea with the afterburners still going, and they spotted a destroyer cruising along minding its own business
4. a dive almost straight down and a zoom to level so low they left a rooster tail as they screamed down the side of the destroyer less
then 100 feet from the ship
5. They looped around in a big circle and made an attack run on the destroyer down lower than the ship's deck - the pilot was talking
with the destroyer and had arranged their own private war games. So the destroyer was running an antiaircraft drill.
6. circled around for another run and did this one inverted
7. circled away and headed back west for one more attack run while saying goodbye to the destroyer
8. another of those afterburner climbs back to 30,000 while headed west
9. called to the tower for landing and sedately obeying all the rules, landed back at the airfield with the fuel tanks on fumes
10. Dad cussed him out so well the airman at the base were all staring with dropped jaws, then Dad didn't say a word to the man for a
month until their long planned hunt for wild turkey in the Ozarks.

Hey, turkey hunting is more important than being mad at someone!

NDMarks Loc: Dublin, Ca

When I was stationed in Thailand I was able to spend time on test flights when a pilot had to fly a certain number of hours to keep their rating up. One time a pilot I knew took me up and we were at 3000 feet when the pilot decided to drop to 2000 feet rather quickly. When we finally landed the pilot was laughing his fool head off and remarking about how I had turned green. Oh how I wanted to smack him!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

You were in Thailand, so you could have just dropped some crushed Thai chilies on his food when he looked away.
Then his mouth would have done a very good imitation of his plane's afterburner.