[MoMo]

Like most of you, I've come across the mindless chat which pilots drive themselves crazy with when they're forced to hang about waiting to scramble.

The funniest discourse which I have heard concerned itself with the conundrum about how a fly lands on a ceiling. I believe that it does an incomplete Immelman roll and then lands on its forward undercart first.

Is this true?

' Confused', of Ealing.

[STARMAN 352ND]

Most unusual question

JP

[skysurfer808]

Not sure about the manuver, but I do know that when Lindbergh was flying across the Atlantic, he had a fly as a passenger. Since he had a lot of time to think, he began contemplating whether the fly was payload, or whether it was not adding to his gross weight...which had been finely calculated prior to the flight. Eventually he came to the conclusion that when the fly was flying, it wasn't adding to his payload, but when it landed it did.

Makes sense to me.

Skysurfer808

[Cardinal]

In the air - presumably with another fly ... ? (Skunky may have more reliable intel. .)

[dilligafocau]

Had to google for this one, apparently its a complete flop

http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/flies.asp

(Courtesy of my 8 yr old)

Q. What do you call a fly without wings?

A. A walk!

[hawkonevoodoo]

Originally Posted by MoMo

Like most of you, I've come across the mindless chat which pilots drive themselves crazy with when they're forced to hang about waiting to scramble.

The funniest discourse which I have heard concerned itself with the conundrum about how a fly lands on a ceiling. I believe that it does an incomplete Immelman roll and then lands on its forward undercart first.

Is this true?

' Confused', of Ealing.

You definitely have too much free time but here you go!!!!!!!!!! http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_043.html

[TopHat]

Originally Posted by Cardinal

(Skunky may have more reliable intel. .)

Why? Are his anal glands clogging up again?

[MoMo]

Thanks, guys, this has solved the mystery....I can now sleep again ( Oh, dear, three weeks of holiday gone....and only four more to go.....how will I fill in the time! )

MoMo

[swoop]

Well there's no romance involved, or dating or dining out on delicious dung. It's sorta like i'll take you on the ceiling- I'll take you on the wall- when someone opens up that door- i'll take you in the hall - i'll take you till i'm swatted and that will end it all.

[jim]

Originally Posted by MoMo

Thanks, guys, this has solved the mystery....I can now sleep again ( Oh, dear, three weeks of holiday gone....and only four more to go.....how will I fill in the time! )

MoMo

7 WEEKS HOLIDAY!!!!!!!! Do you work for the government by any chance?