cwoav8r
Jetboaters Captain
- Messages
- 502
- Reaction score
- 377
- Points
- 212
- Location
- Naples, Florida
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2008
- Boat Model
- AR
- Boat Length
- 23
I friend sent me this today, I haven't seen it before so I thought I would share with you all...
B-1 Bomber For Sale (Visa, Master Card accepted)
A B1 bomber was in here ( Billings , MT ) doing practice approaches and touch and gos. On one of the landings the pilot lands long and in attempting to stop, sets his brakes on fire. He taxis in, and the airport parks him on a taxiway and then puts cones around the aircraft until parts and mechanics can be brought in from Ellsworth AFB the next day.
The next day is a Saturday, which doesn't have much going on, so we get to laughing in the tower that maybe somebody should hang a "For Sale" sign on the plane. We convince one of our guys who's well known for doing things like this that it would be a good idea.
So he takes off for the hardware store to buy a For Sale sign. On the way back he stops at a car dealer and gets one of those "As is/No Warranty" signs that hang on all used cars. On that sign was written something
like low miles, new engines, needs brakes and tires. Those signs were taped together, and off goes our hero.
He climbs over the fence, leaving some skin on the barbed wire, and makes his way the 1000 feet or so to the aircraft. As he's doing that, we see a couple of airport vehicles starting to gather with the recently arrived mechanics as well as the plane's crew. Not looking good for our intrepid airplane salesman... but he manages to get to the nose wheel and tapes the sign to the nose strut.
He makes his way back from the plane as the vehicles start to head out from the shop on the way to the bomber. Somehow he makes it without being seen.
The vehicles arrive at the plane, and of course notice the sign right away. The Air Force guys are in stitches, funniest thing they've seen in a long time. Airport guys are not sure what to think. Airport management is livid as they've been tasked with security.
Pretty soon a camera appears and all the Air Force guys are taking pictures of each other by the sign.
Our hero is back in the tower now, and notices the bomber's commander is talking on a cell phone. Our guy gets on the radio to the airport truck and asks for that guy's phone number.
As soon as he finishes that call, our guy calls the aircraft commander... When he answers, our guy says "I'm calling about the plane you have for sale." Aircraft commander about falls over from the laughter.
An article showed on the front page of the Sunday paper. When that came out, the Colonel running Ellsworth called the airport director and read him the riot act, wondering what kind of dog and pony show he was running up there. We were later informed by the crew that the sign was framed and is now permanently mounted inside the aircraft. Hard to find that kind of sense of humor and have that much fun anymore.
It just so happened that the chief photographer for our local newspaper is a pilot and he may have been called prior to the sign being placed. He was told to get up here with a big lens. Here's one of the pics he got:
B-1 Bomber For Sale (Visa, Master Card accepted)
A B1 bomber was in here ( Billings , MT ) doing practice approaches and touch and gos. On one of the landings the pilot lands long and in attempting to stop, sets his brakes on fire. He taxis in, and the airport parks him on a taxiway and then puts cones around the aircraft until parts and mechanics can be brought in from Ellsworth AFB the next day.
The next day is a Saturday, which doesn't have much going on, so we get to laughing in the tower that maybe somebody should hang a "For Sale" sign on the plane. We convince one of our guys who's well known for doing things like this that it would be a good idea.
So he takes off for the hardware store to buy a For Sale sign. On the way back he stops at a car dealer and gets one of those "As is/No Warranty" signs that hang on all used cars. On that sign was written something
like low miles, new engines, needs brakes and tires. Those signs were taped together, and off goes our hero.
He climbs over the fence, leaving some skin on the barbed wire, and makes his way the 1000 feet or so to the aircraft. As he's doing that, we see a couple of airport vehicles starting to gather with the recently arrived mechanics as well as the plane's crew. Not looking good for our intrepid airplane salesman... but he manages to get to the nose wheel and tapes the sign to the nose strut.
He makes his way back from the plane as the vehicles start to head out from the shop on the way to the bomber. Somehow he makes it without being seen.
The vehicles arrive at the plane, and of course notice the sign right away. The Air Force guys are in stitches, funniest thing they've seen in a long time. Airport guys are not sure what to think. Airport management is livid as they've been tasked with security.
Pretty soon a camera appears and all the Air Force guys are taking pictures of each other by the sign.
Our hero is back in the tower now, and notices the bomber's commander is talking on a cell phone. Our guy gets on the radio to the airport truck and asks for that guy's phone number.
As soon as he finishes that call, our guy calls the aircraft commander... When he answers, our guy says "I'm calling about the plane you have for sale." Aircraft commander about falls over from the laughter.
An article showed on the front page of the Sunday paper. When that came out, the Colonel running Ellsworth called the airport director and read him the riot act, wondering what kind of dog and pony show he was running up there. We were later informed by the crew that the sign was framed and is now permanently mounted inside the aircraft. Hard to find that kind of sense of humor and have that much fun anymore.
It just so happened that the chief photographer for our local newspaper is a pilot and he may have been called prior to the sign being placed. He was told to get up here with a big lens. Here's one of the pics he got:
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