Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/09/01/pilots-over-lax-report-a-guy.html
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It’s me Rhodey! I’m in a suit!
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Someday I want to respond to anything as calmly as pilots and ground crew talk to each other.I freak out if someone asks me the time.
It’s the “OK, thank you” that really kills me.
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Hurry up and get to the Nazi punching already!
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3000 feet seems pretty high for the existing jet packs that are commonly available. I wonder if it’s possible that the pilots mistook one of these balloons for a real guy?
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The Rapture is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.
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That’s not flying. It’s falling with style.
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“Wearing a carbon fibre wing powered by four mini jet engines, he flew to 1,800 metres (5900 feet) above sea level”
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ATC “Your left or my left?”
Pilot “I don’t know - which way are you facing?”
ATC “I don’t know either, there’s no windows in this radar room.”
Pilot “And I had twisted around to see better. Maybe it was on my right.”
ATC “I always have to face east to remember my lefts and rights.”
Pilot “Yeah, I have to look at doorways.”
ATC “Debits by the windows, credits by the doorways. Accounting class. Assets are debits but banks debit my account to take money from me. I don’t get it.”
Pilot “Cation something. Anion something. First year physics. 'Still don’t really know…”
ATC “Hah hah, yeah. Positive results, negative results: Which is good?”
Pilot “I know, right? That’s just sinister.”
ATC “I gotta get back to my drink. I like to finish my shift with a little something.”
Pilot “Me too, but just before landing. I keep a bottle of Port on my side of the cockpit. My maladroit co-pilot has Quady’s on his side. Always the same, never varies.”
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This would have been by goto reference, but now it is:
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dreams of earth and sky…
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I was thinking it was Strange, but it could be a rocketeer.
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It was probably Jetpack Aviation doing some sort of test. They are located here in LA. I think they sometimes test at the Hawthorne Airport, which is less than a half mile south and east of the LAX final approach.
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Malibu is a pretty short hop from LAX; maybe this is Stark Tech.
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