Quatrelle, thank you also. That made me laugh even if it was a bit unfair to ATCOs!
One of my favourites…
Rumour has it that it was this movie which got Carlo Pedrosoli (Bud Spencer)interested in flying. He did his license at some stage including helicopters and jets. Very nice guy indeed. He is sorely missed.
In case someone is interested here is the whole movie.
In German
Good idea for a thread. I have only this for now, but will look into it :
This is my favourite flying song
I had a summer job between college and university and worked in a high voltage power supply manufacturer (Wallis Electronics). During that summer I worked in a potting shop where we were encapsulating high voltage assemblies in silicone, or epoxy, and we were having a great time mixing up buckets of the stuff and evacuating them in a vacuum chamber to get the air bubbles out, before pouring the stuff into the moulds, and this was at or near the top of the charts and playing on the radio
There are various versions of this video on youtube, some with video content not quite suitable for EuroGA
This one must appear in this thread, even though it is not a musical monument
Peter …. FYI the writer of ‘Typical Tropical’ flies an SR22 out of North Weald
Wiki says: Songwriter(s) Jeffrey Calvert, Max West. Two engineers They also performed it.
Here is my favorite…
Everyone in this video looks like that drummer from Nirvana.
Mike Wagner has a few on Youtube, especially the parodies – Teterboro reminded me of it… Watching the videos is, in a way, entertaining, too…