If you can keep your head...

[nineveh_uk]

I hope that if I am ever on a plane with one damaged engine and a window smashed in at 32,000 ft that my pilot sounds as frankly bored with a mundane day at work as Tammie Jo Shults does in this recording of yesterday's incident on Southwest Airlines while she is bringing the plane into land.

ATC: Is your airplane physically on fire?

Pilot: No, it's not on fire, but part of it's missing.

Isn't it a good thing that she persisted with her wish to become a fighter pilot after being turned down by the US Army (she joined the navy).

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[antisoppist]

Callsign. G7VNL though it has probably lapsed or something as I think I ought to be paying to maintain my licence. My dad is still active (in the winter) as Golf seven hotel charlie oscar. I did a lot of shortwave radio listening and collected remote radio stations, and it came out of that, and because dad did it. But I'm not actually interested in the technology of radio. I was more interested in communicating with people across the world, and then the internet arrived, which meant you didn't have to know how to build a radio in order to do that.