Phil Perry Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 A pilot has severely damaged his homebuilt aircraft and blamed the accident on a new pair of shoes. The pilot was unhurt following the crash at White Waltham airfield near Maidenhead, Berkshire, in the late summer of 2015. The pilot, Patrick Dale, 52, said that he had bought the shoes believing that they would assist with more effective wheel braking on his Stummel Flitzer Biplane. He blamed “Excessive Brake Application” after landing. . . caused by the new shoes, but later added that he had “not got a lot of experience * in landing the single seat aircraft after only recently finishing the building of it. The aircraft flipped forward onto it's back and was badly damaged. He said that “Inexperience” may have been a contributory cause. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Perry Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 OOPS. . . .sorry Mods,. . .that went in the wrong filing cabinet,. . . . should have been in Incidents . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soleair Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Poor fellow. . . But come on, Phil. you're not so long in the mother country that you've forgotten that 'flip flops', rather than describing this guy's landing technique, are referred to over here as 'thongs'. Whereas in UK, an Aussie wanting new footwear would look askance at what he got if he asked for some thongs Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBob Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Yep, and over here they're jandals. Hence the phrase 'handle the jandal'...which clearly this unfortunate aviator was unable to do... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Everybody knows you have to get the correct brake shoes. Nev 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBob Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Everybody knows you have to get the correct brake shoes. Nev also the correct thong...er...underpants? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Perry Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 Poor fellow. . .But come on, Phil. you're not so long in the mother country that you've forgotten that 'flip flops', rather than describing this guy's landing technique, are referred to over here as 'thongs'. Whereas in UK, an Aussie wanting new footwear would look askance at what he got if he asked for some thongs Bruce My oppo and I are just havin a larf at your expense Bruce . . .No seriously,. . . .when I posted that earlier today, I stuck a post it note on the office wall and said to Steve,. . .watch some Aussie tell me that they're called THONGS in OZ . . . .thank you SIr, . . .I just won a bet, ( but the barstard won't pay - he never does. . .! ) .Oh Glee. . . . . For the information of any Aussie vacationing in the UK, should the weather be sufficiently warm for you to visit a beach without wearing your heavily insulated polar gear,. . . ( Unlikely ) if you see a nice young lass wearing a piece of string instead of a bikini bottom bit, we call that a. . . ."Thong" . . .unleth the perthon hath a thpeech impediment, then we all thing a thong together. . . . Thee ya. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Yeah I learned Thing a thong of thixthpenth..... Long ago. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 And you can't get much thicker than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Kiwi's use jandals (JAP n Sadles) cause most are made in Japan. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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