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For once, Hoskins, your round out was perfect. Unfortunately...
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"...and so I only noticed that the undercart was still retracted when it took afterburner to taxi..."
Fireman "Ere Sir....you've left your cannopy open a bit"
Pilot "If you knew what I had left in there after that landing....you would do the same"
Pilot "If you knew what I had left in there after that landing....you would do the same"
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Some people seem to think it is in water - it is on a wet runway at Tullamarine in Melbourne.
The pilot didn't actually realise he had left the gear up until he hopped out of the cockpit and found the ground closer than expected. He then looked back in the cockpit to see the gear handle up. It was then an exercise to prevent the firies from filling the cockpit with foam, especially when he had to grab the firies' hose which was being fed through the ejection face blind handles to hold it still...
Some people seem to think it is in water - it is on a wet runway at Tullamarine in Melbourne.
The pilot didn't actually realise he had left the gear up until he hopped out of the cockpit and found the ground closer than expected. He then looked back in the cockpit to see the gear handle up. It was then an exercise to prevent the firies from filling the cockpit with foam, especially when he had to grab the firies' hose which was being fed through the ejection face blind handles to hold it still...
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Australia determind to win the Olympic Bobsleigh championship trail their new toboggan at a secret location.
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Look at the skidmarks, the worst one being the pilots..