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Richard.goode(at)russiana
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 Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 6:53 pm Post subject: Flower bombing and more |
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I have never posted anything that is non-yak but I think this story is worth it.
Probably 25 years ago, at our flying club, a craze for flour-bombing began – initially thrown out of the door of a spam-can, but the technicians became more sophisticated and built a "bomb-rack" under the floor of one of the club Cherokees, so you had, I recollect, four separate "bombs" under the aircraft, and a separate release for each.
This led to the idea, since many people want their ashes spread over certain areas after death whereby there was a dispensing funnel in the aircraft going down through some sort of inspection hatch in the floor, the theory being that you would get to the designated area and pour the ashes into the funnel in the aircraft. The system was tried with sand and worked well.
For the first real customer, the whole family came to the airfield, and the (adult) daughter, who had never flown before, asked if she could come for the flight, to which the pilot and "bomb-aimer" agreed. They reached the area, and began the ashes-releasing procedure, but of course the dramatic weakness of the technology was that it failed to take into account that ash is somewhat lighter than sand, and there is a noticeable high-pressure area under the aircraft. Within seconds, the entire interior of the aircraft was field with the deceased fellow’s ashes, covering everyone, including the daughter.
They returned to the airfield; landed and then taxied to the far end where they attempted to clean the plain before they returned to the waiting relatives. They apologised profusely to the daughter who didn't seem to mind and said "no problem – he was a difficult old sod when he was alive!"
Richard Goode
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jan.mevis(at)informavia.b
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 9:57 pm Post subject: Flower bombing and more |
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Nice story, thanks!!!!
From: <owner-yak-list-server(at)matronics.com (owner-yak-list-server(at)matronics.com)> on behalf of Richard Goode <richard.goode(at)russianaeros.com (richard.goode(at)russianaeros.com)>
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Date: Saturday 20 August 2016 at 04:40
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Subject: Flower bombing and more
Flower bombing and more
I have never posted anything that is non-yak but I think this story is worth it.
Probably 25 years ago, at our flying club, a craze for flour-bombing began – initially thrown out of the door of a spam-can, but the technicians became more sophisticated and built a "bomb-rack" under the floor of one of the club Cherokees, so you had, I recollect, four separate "bombs" under the aircraft, and a separate release for each.
This led to the idea, since many people want their ashes spread over certain areas after death whereby there was a dispensing funnel in the aircraft going down through some sort of inspection hatch in the floor, the theory being that you would get to the designated area and pour the ashes into the funnel in the aircraft. The system was tried with sand and worked well.
For the first real customer, the whole family came to the airfield, and the (adult) daughter, who had never flown before, asked if she could come for the flight, to which the pilot and "bomb-aimer" agreed. They reached the area, and began the ashes-releasing procedure, but of course the dramatic weakness of the technology was that it failed to take into account that ash is somewhat lighter than sand, and there is a noticeable high-pressure area under the aircraft. Within seconds, the entire interior of the aircraft was field with the deceased fellow’s ashes, covering everyone, including the daughter.
They returned to the airfield; landed and then taxied to the far end where they attempted to clean the plain before they returned to the waiting relatives. They apologised profusely to the daughter who didn't seem to mind and said "no problem – he was a difficult old sod when he was alive!"
Richard Goode
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tigeryak18t
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| Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 1:47 am Post subject: Flower bombing and more |
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Excellent Richard
Thanks for sharing
Didier Blouzard+33 6 5184 4802
Le 20 août 2016 à 04:40, Richard Goode <Richard.goode(at)russianaeros.com (Richard.goode(at)russianaeros.com)> a écrit :
| Quote: | Flower bombing and more
I have never posted anything that is non-yak but I think this story is worth it.
Probably 25 years ago, at our flying club, a craze for flour-bombing began – initially thrown out of the door of a spam-can, but the technicians became more sophisticated and built a "bomb-rack" under the floor of one of the club Cherokees, so you had, I recollect, four separate "bombs" under the aircraft, and a separate release for each.
This led to the idea, since many people want their ashes spread over certain areas after death whereby there was a dispensing funnel in the aircraft going down through some sort of inspection hatch in the floor, the theory being that you would get to the designated area and pour the ashes into the funnel in the aircraft. The system was tried with sand and worked well.
For the first real customer, the whole family came to the airfield, and the (adult) daughter, who had never flown before, asked if she could come for the flight, to which the pilot and "bomb-aimer" agreed. They reached the area, and began the ashes-releasing procedure, but of course the dramatic weakness of the technology was that it failed to take into account that ash is somewhat lighter than sand, and there is a noticeable high-pressure area under the aircraft. Within seconds, the entire interior of the aircraft was field with the deceased fellow’s ashes, covering everyone, including the daughter.
They returned to the airfield; landed and then taxied to the far end where they attempted to clean the plain before they returned to the waiting relatives. They apologised profusely to the daughter who didn't seem to mind and said "no problem – he was a difficult old sod when he was alive!"
Richard Goode
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