I used to do work on the aircraft at Newark air museum. spent all day saturday and half of sunday working on the swift during its first resto, was used to jumping on and off the wing, got asked to help out on the shackleton as they where taking the starbord wing tank off, on the wingtip, rope in hand and helped lower the offending article down, turned, jumped and landed on my rear, wasn’t hurt cept my pride but one of the lads said i really ought not have done that as i mignt have landed on a paying customer!!!.
the bruising went after a couple of weeks. guess i was VERY lucky.
another that has stayed quiet till now, when you are pressuretesting a cylinder in a c172 (or any piston type for that matter) and you plug in the airline to the adaptor, make sure the piston is at the bottom of the stroke and not near the top!!!, other wise WOLLOP, i got one dead arm for about 5 mins. lucky me no one saw 😉
Greg

i agree Janie, and let normal service resume on this chipmunk thread ;).
Greg.

amazing, sad but amazing none the less,
thanks for the link.
Greg

i’ll delete it if you want mate, sorry

dunno about all that, all i do know is if she’s a mucky lass she’ll have more skid marks that heathrows runways!!!
but i like em mucky. hehehe.
Greg

first pic,…. NO i said hands on throttle and STICK!!!!!!.
Greg 😉

flying underwear????. has something to do with the angle of the dangle squared by the heat of the beat, iirc 😉
Greg

methinks the answer to that one may be (and i will probably get shot down big time for this) most instructors are male,and unless there is something seriously wrong with them (apart from loving aviation of course 😉 ) they would never encounter the problems you did in the cub. (and if they did i wager their “other half” 😮 will have had similar trouble) because its a fairly safe bet they didn’t fly in high heels. also they will no doubt have liked looking at their female pupils struggle with the heels, both on the airfield grass and on the pedals. just my honest and probably slightly warped veiws on this.
btw, i taught an ex girlfriend to drive and it took ages for me to persuade her to wear trainers instead of her blimming high heeled boots, it took a very near miss to get it across 🙁

Greg