Well everyone seems to be making a big fuss about the planes but I want to know how many palms were greased in Japan to get him from the house to the airport. That’s the real story. Methinks I smell bought cops, heavily tipped customs agents, and Yakuza. Or a smooth operator who simply gave them the slip. Japan ain’t…

Oh but you can!

Corporate pilot here. Absolutely the most difficult part of this was getting him to the airplane. After he’s onboard, easy peasy japanesey.

In my many years of flying internationally I really only ever had success with free upgrades by complimenting gay male check in agents on some aspect of their appearance, or watch/jewellery. None of the compliments were undeserved by the way. Doesn’t work at all on the electronic check in machines..

He’s a rotten bastard and the Japanese government for the most part is composed of rotten bastards. I personally agree with his tactics. Plus I just love it when governments get hoodwinked by people rather than the far more prevalent opposite.

“I delivered it back to them in the same shape I received it, minus a few scrapes on the footpegs.)“. English is a funny old language, even if it’s your first.

So you removed the scrapes on the footpegs before returning the bike? How very considerate of you.

Fear not, your bald spot will disappear, to be replaced by a larger one.

Our ‘59 had a relief tube from a Dakota (C-47, DC3) installed in a small closet so we kids could whizz on the move. The non-peeing children would look for the trail out the rear windows.

Oh, and I just last night finished a 4200 mile recovery mission over 5 days. That’s “across the country”, Dave.

Don’t bother with machining the flywheel. There’s mistakes that can be made that’ll fk you and it’s just not required.

Yaaaawn. 

Gonna let you in on a little secret there Mike. Whatever their colour, politicians, almost every man jack of them, give a flying fuck about you or me.

That ain’t nuthin. My Corgi managed to put my Renault R30TS into reverse at 75 mph. AND IT TOOK. Not only that, after it came to a smoking howling suspension tramping halt I restarted it, put it in D and completed the last 300 miles of a 1000 mile trip. Don’t ever think the French can’t make tough cars.

F/A should get on the horn to up front and ask them to just tag the brakes good and hard once.

You know, Michael, if it was a black president who couldn’t read worth a shit you’d be all poor fellow has dyslexia, or a learning disability caused by some shittily run white man school system but Trump is an abysmally stupid lying crotch grabbing just barely literate asshole motherfucker racist prick?

Zdrast voy tya Misha. Do you know which markets had the Damas in left hand drive like this one?

One passenger standing up on final would not be a reason to go around otherwise no flight in the Middle or Far East could land (until they ran out of gas). You could certainly have the passenger dealt with by authorities after arrival.

An aboriginal woman, stumbling around the apron in northern Canada, in the winter, in summer clothes, with a paper bag full of sniff. You just knew they were going to find her frozen stiff in a snowdrift by morning. It was -25C. I had shut down both engines for fear she’d walk into the propellers (normally we’d leave…

I’m usually a bit offended by vaginal care products, almost always because they suggest that if you do even a lick of work, your hoohoo is going to smell like a dead trout that hungry cats would run from. Or that it’s the rare bit of time that you don’t have some kind of low grade infection (that stinks of course). By…