SOS (Slower Older Smarter)
Dec 15, 2020 16:52:00 #
Had to share!
An Airbus 380 is on its way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 km/h in 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with 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 flight, boring flight isn’t it? Take care and have a look here!”
He rolls his jet on its back, accelerates, breaks through the sound barrier, rises rapidly to a dizzying height, only to swoop 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 now have a look here!"
The jet pilot watches the Airbus, but nothing happens. It continues to fly stubbornly straight, with the same speed. After five minutes, the Airbus pilot radioed, "Well, what are you saying now?"
The jet pilot asks confused: "What did you do?" The other laughs and says, "I got up, stretched my legs, went to the back of the flight to the bathroom, got a cup of coffee and a cinnamon cake.
The moral of the story is:
When you are young, speed and adrenaline seems to be great. But as you get older and wiser, comfort and peace are not to be despised either.
This is called S.O.S.: Slower, Older, Smarter.
Dedicated to all my friends who like me likes the S.O.S. approach!
An Airbus 380 is on its way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 km/h in 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with 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 flight, boring flight isn’t it? Take care and have a look here!”
He rolls his jet on its back, accelerates, breaks through the sound barrier, rises rapidly to a dizzying height, only to swoop 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 now have a look here!"
The jet pilot watches the Airbus, but nothing happens. It continues to fly stubbornly straight, with the same speed. After five minutes, the Airbus pilot radioed, "Well, what are you saying now?"
The jet pilot asks confused: "What did you do?" The other laughs and says, "I got up, stretched my legs, went to the back of the flight to the bathroom, got a cup of coffee and a cinnamon cake.
The moral of the story is:
When you are young, speed and adrenaline seems to be great. But as you get older and wiser, comfort and peace are not to be despised either.
This is called S.O.S.: Slower, Older, Smarter.
Dedicated to all my friends who like me likes the S.O.S. approach!
Dec 15, 2020 17:58:17 #
Dec 16, 2020 02:39:16 #
joehel2 wrote:
Had to share! br An Airbus 380 is on its way acros... (show quote)
Just remember: There are old pilots, there are bold pilots but there aren’t old, bold pilots.
I am waiting to afford a flight in a MiG-29 Fulcrum. Average daily cost: $20,000. Consider tip for pilot, cost of divorce attorney and choice of home: cardboard box under highway overpass or long time commitment to mental health residence at the request of unapproving spouse.
Dec 16, 2020 06:09:51 #
TriX wrote:
I’m afraid I have reached that age.
I seem to have missed out on the 'smarter' bit.
Dec 16, 2020 06:54:28 #
Dec 16, 2020 07:11:57 #
MrMophoto
Loc: Rhode Island "The biggest little"
The older I get the more I realize how much I don't know
Dec 16, 2020 08:19:51 #
Dec 16, 2020 08:56:18 #
I guess the only negative side to this life lesson is that the jet pilot could follow the Airbus pilot's example (while on an Airbus) while the SOS Airbus pilot probably couldn't take the physical punishment of the jet pilot's maneuvers. My aging ankles and knees can no longer stand up to a fast, physical game of tennis with my son but he has no trouble settling into my recliner with his tablet. Sigh.
Dec 16, 2020 09:45:51 #
Many of my friends complain about loss of memory at our advanced age, I found my memory is not lost but only delayed. SOS indeed.
Dec 16, 2020 12:33:16 #
When I was in the Air Force (a medic) I had a patient that was into sky diving. He tole me Doc you got to try this.
He said it was perfectly safe and he would be with me all the way. I liked the idea so after work I told my wife that I was going to try it. Needless to say that turned out to be the end of that.Any way two weeks later my patient jumped and hit a bridge abutment and ended up with a broken back. Most times wives seem more sensible or at least the one I married is.
He said it was perfectly safe and he would be with me all the way. I liked the idea so after work I told my wife that I was going to try it. Needless to say that turned out to be the end of that.Any way two weeks later my patient jumped and hit a bridge abutment and ended up with a broken back. Most times wives seem more sensible or at least the one I married is.
Dec 16, 2020 15:27:41 #
SpikeW wrote:
When I was in the Air Force (a medic) I had a patient that was into sky diving. He tole me Doc you got to try this.
He said it was perfectly safe and he would be with me all the way. I liked the idea so after work I told my wife that I was going to try it. Needless to say that turned out to be the end of that.Any way two weeks later my patient jumped and hit a bridge abutment and ended up with a broken back. Most times wives seem more sensible or at least the one I married is.
He said it was perfectly safe and he would be with me all the way. I liked the idea so after work I told my wife that I was going to try it. Needless to say that turned out to be the end of that.Any way two weeks later my patient jumped and hit a bridge abutment and ended up with a broken back. Most times wives seem more sensible or at least the one I married is.
I was invited to go skydiving by the Assistant Superintendent of a Federal Prison Camp (I had only recently arrived as a transferred employee) several (many) years ago. My personal opinion of jumping out of a perfectly flying machine with a large piece of fabric attached to me was that it would be ludicrous, so my response to him was, "With all due respect to you as my boss, f*** you very much."
Dec 16, 2020 15:47:48 #
The thought of parachute jumping is a nice Saturday Afternoon activity. There is a small problem. My wife will probably push. After I have left the plane, she will tell the pilot I forgot my parachute. Or so she thinks I left the parachute behind?
Dec 16, 2020 16:16:51 #
joehel2 wrote:
...This is called S.O.S.: Slower, Older, Smarter...
For me, it's Slower, Older, Saggier.
Dec 16, 2020 16:18:26 #
SpikeW wrote:
.... Most times wives seem more sensible or at least the one I married is.
That's why, after breaking my hip, I did not get back onto my motorcycle.
Dec 16, 2020 18:09:12 #
TheShoe
Loc: Lacey, WA
Unfortunately, once the SOS state is attained, many see the second S deteriorate until they regress to the SO state.
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