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[TacoXpo]

That'd be something, would take one hell of a strong APU though, especially if it was fully loaded and bagged out with gas...I think they should just stick with the jet engines, so we can continue to enjoy hilarity at the expense of poor African nations. I emailed that guy with the video to see if he could send it to me, can't really post it up online since it is a flightline after all.

I was in sales for McDonnell Douglas about 20 years ago and being that I was the youngest and least experienced - I got Nigeria and Zambia. Nigerian Airways had a serious challenge with the truth - all the way to their chiefs. Zambia was a good group of guys. Once they took delivery of a DC10 (just before I got there) and Capt Mulundika decided to leave the cockpit to join the celebration (auto pilot). He forgot one thing - the ceremonial key to OPEN THE SELF LOCKING DOOR!!!! They took the ax and created a new souvenir- a cockpit door that looked like the ax murderer was on board!!!

 

[Mauzer]

They were actually going to name me Michael, but at the last moment, when it was time to put it on the birth certificate, they decided to go with Brian. Funny how things work out sometimes! I have a couple friends that were at Ft. Bragg, in the 4th Infantry Division. Both are out of the military now though. For some reason, they didn't enjoy 16 month deployments in the desert, with promises of more to come?

Same here, but they were going to name me Christopher...Christopher Brian, but at the last moment my dad thought that Christopher Brian sounded to much like that schizophrenic kid from the Winnie the Pooh series that thought his plush toys were real...so we went with Brian first instead

 

[MCTacodriver]

I was in sales for McDonnell Douglas about 20 years ago and being that I was the youngest and least experienced - I got Nigeria and Zambia. Nigerian Airways had a serious challenge with the truth - all the way to their chiefs. Zambia was a good group of guys. Once they took delivery of a DC10 (just before I got there) and Capt Mulundika decided to leave the cockpit to join the celebration (auto pilot). He forgot one thing - the ceremonial key to OPEN THE SELF LOCKING DOOR!!!! They took the ax and created a new souvenir- a cockpit door that looked like the ax murderer was on board!!!

Haha, holy shit...I can see that happening too, all the Africans I have dealt with, while most were friendly and hardworking (definitely not all), they all seemed to make mistakes frequently. More than once, coming in to land we would get a loud screaming man over the radio "POD 31, GO AROUND!"...After clearing us for final, they had cleared another plane to take the runway and takeoff
Kuwaiti ATC, definitely has the friendliest, and outside of America, the best controllers I've ever dealt with. There's one who's quite famous, he pulls jokes on aircrews new to the area. Not very professional, but pretty funny. He told one of our planes that they had to go change their callsign. "Pod is Pats callsign, you are not Pat, you must go change!" Kept insisting, but our pilot just kept pressing to takeoff, seeing as they had a full load of Marines headed to Afghanistan. When they landed, they were pretty pissed off, ranting about it in the shop. An Air Force pilot overheard them from the next office, and came in and explained the situation.

 

[TacoXpo]

Haha, holy shit...I can see that happening too, all the Africans I have dealt with, while most were friendly and hardworking (definitely not all), they all seemed to make mistakes frequently. More than once, coming in to land we would get a loud screaming man over the radio "POD 31, GO AROUND!"...After clearing us for final, they had cleared another plane to take the runway and takeoff
Kuwaiti ATC, definitely has the friendliest, and outside of America, the best controllers I've ever dealt with. There's one who's quite famous, he pulls jokes on aircrews new to the area. Not very professional, but pretty funny. He told one of our planes that they had to go change their callsign. "Pod is Pats callsign, you are not Pat, you must go change!" Kept insisting, but our pilot just kept pressing to takeoff, seeing as they had a full load of Marines headed to Afghanistan. When they landed, they were pretty pissed off, ranting about it in the shop. An Air Force pilot overheard them from the next office, and came in and explained the situation.

TOO funny!!!

Last one. I took this Zambia Airways executive to a GREAT steak house and ordered him the special (huge steak). When it came, he and his head of engineering were in tears. They both said "Bronto Burger" at the same time! Apparently the Flintstones were primetime in Zambia - who would have known!!!

 

[MCTacodriver]

The Flintstones were, and are great entertainment! Think I need to try and pick some up on DVD or something now to kill time...