Wahey! I'm in a HELICOPTER!

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Oh yes I am.

― emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

is this the 14th sign of ILX addiction?

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

going crazy and stealing a helicopter?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

wheres that animated .gif of the stop frame animation helicopter kids? can't find it, lost interest

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

I actually AM in a HELICOPTER. Wahey! This new Charles Dance record...what the FUCK? He's gone mad.

― boney (b0n3y), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

busted:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1768149,00.html

― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 6 May 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

so when i open this thread i'm thinking, woah! i wonder if emily was in the same helicopter as my friend jon, who texted me yesterday to say exactly the same thing?

fucker. i showed loads of people at work too ;)

― grimly pwndish (grimlord), Saturday, 6 May 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ritilan.com/archives/images/blogimages/gijoe_computer.jpg

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 6 May 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hehehe. It was fun while it lasted. I got some good responses, including "shiiiit! I'm in a minibus", "No way! Can I have a go?", and "hang on... is it flying?". None as good as "is that a sexual position?", which was sent to boney (see above).

My brother tried to convince people about Sherlock Holmes, and failed dismally.

― emil.y (emil.y), Saturday, 6 May 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

my old flatmate - jon's best friend, incidentally - and i once convinced our other flatmate that ken hom, although famous in the west as a chef, was renowned in hong kong not for his cookery skills but as a composer, and that he wrote all the music and incidental themes for his TV shows.

we then managed to convince her that he invented the digestive biscuit. in a wok.

happy days.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 6 May 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

charlie brooker is some kind of genius.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 6 May 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

When I was at uni a friend of ours was round our flat, and we were watching Family Fortunes on Challenge TV as students have a wont to do. Our cable connection was a bit shit, and the sound kept cutting out. We convinced this friend that it was actually to cover up the huge amount of swearing Les Dennis was doing and invented a parellel universe in which Les had made his name performing incredibly blue stand-up sets in Working Men's clubs. She bought it totally.

Not as good as the Ken Hom one, but still.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Saturday, 6 May 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

that's brilliant. i want to believe it!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 6 May 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Recreational lying - CLASSIC or DUD

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 6 May 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

haha, i only just caught up with saturday's guardian.

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

I've told a friend that I was going to university to teach monkeys how to smoke cigarettes. Also (same friend) that Doner kebabs were made of the meat of a Doner Bird. Which is now the subject of a hit song.

― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

is "Wahey" an old expression or a new one?

― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

timeless

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

I am always disappointed when otherwise sensible people like Charlie Brooker's journalism.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

it's not so much journalism as performance art. i like it, needles to say.

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

TVGoHome was pretty much the reason i bought a computer for the flat.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

I convinced a lot of regulars at work that Chester was holding a week long arts festival called "Chester Draws"

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

Whilst we're on the subject of lying for fun..

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1842292,00.html

THIS IS MY LIFE.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

"Way back in the mists of time, when I wrote about video games for a living..."

i did wonder, on tuesday reading the new Edge and again last night watching Screen Wipe, if anyone had ever seen Brooker and Biffo in the same room together)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Brooker is sub-Biffo at best.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

wheres that animated .gif of the stop frame animation helicopter kids? can't find it, lost interest

-- jinx hijinks (mikeoptin...) (webmail), May 5th, 2006 11:44 AM. (sanskrit) (link)

oh, here he is:

http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/4876/cc8d1d8074d3af95fc0267211c44nm.gif

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Monday, 11 September 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/XOEKqJZVm7
— Everton Aren't We (@EvertonArentWe) February 5, 2020

― calzino, Thursday, 6 February 2020 09:50 (five years ago)

four years pass...

Today I learned about Servo Control Transparency. In other words, don't buzz stuff on the ground and immediately pull up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P44VxgI20H8

for explanation go to • Video . AS350 BA heli-skiing at Bear Creek Lodge gets into servo control transparency when pilot buzzes the lodge and then eases back on the cyclic, which loads up forces on the rotor disk. The aerodynamic forces on the blades now exceed the ability of the hydraulic servos to control them and servo control transparency occurs. We hear the intermittent beeping of the high rotor horn as the aircraft pitches right and into the mountain. No serious injuries. I'll explain further. SCT happens at high disk loading and high speed. VNE in an ASatr is 155 kts minus 3kt/1000' so if they are at 6,000', it's now at about 135 kts. In addition, adding a ski basket on the side causes more drag, so more pitch is require to reach that same 135 kts and that means you'll hit the SCT limit even sooner. The hydraulic system has a pressure relief valve that opens and sends fluid back to the reservoir at 40 bars or about 600 PSI. The low pressure light and horn comes on at 30 bars or 450 PSI so that the working range. We found pilots complaining about one AStar where they were getting SCT in cruise flight, so the training department had the engineers test the pressure relief valve. They come from the factory with no life limit and no test interval. We had valves that were opening at 32-35 bars instead of 40, so those systems were running at 3/4 to 7/8 of what the pressure was supposed to be. As a result our company added something to the maintenance manual where these valves were checked on a regular basis to make sure they were running at 40 bars.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 10 December 2024 22:45 (ten months ago)

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