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Sounds like someone really is an eager eagle
Wat is that from?
Rick & Morty.
Who is it
Birdperson
What are they saying
"In bird culture, this is considered a dick move"
With what kind of inflection?
Poor
A Rick and morty Episode, which one idk rn
The pilots the entire time they were getting yelled at:
let's see, air force pilots are captains and lieutenants here (yes i read it was cadets doing the flying), so it's either a captain or a colonel doing the yelling. and this is what they looked like:
“Yer a loose cannon!”
"Just the kind of pilot we need!"
Did they at least get to... finnish?
I've drawn these with ships numerous times. It was my usual test-pattern when calibrating magnetic compasses and testing the autopilot.
And it's not entirely without logic either; The calibration and testing usually goes like this:
- A few circles to calibrate the compas, teaching it how the full 360 azimuth looks from a magnetic perspective, taking its own magnetic environment into account.
- Straight line, checking that the heading matches the course
- Turn 180 degrees and repeat to verify that it also holds true in the opposite direction
- At this point, you might as well draw the other testicle too
Yeah, that was my thought. In order to draw these, the pilots needed to demonstrate precise control of their vehicles. Fucking pearl clutchers, I hope disciplinary action was only mentioned to appease them, though wish they'd just give a "who fucking cares?" response instead.
While i pretty much agree with you, i can see the "do we want dudes who act this juvenile to fly 70 million € aircraft when we have more mature candidates lined up and waiting their change" angle too.
Though is willingness/desire to draw dicks for fun (in a way that doesn't even leave a permanent mark on anything) really correlated with maturity or have we just been allowing people with sticks up their ass to define what is and isn't mature?
This was done within the parameters of the training mission. If they were doing shit like Maverick in Top Gun, then I'd agree, because his immaturity created real risks and he treated the mission parameters as suggestions while trying to "win" rather than "train".
I think it does indeed tell something about maturity or atleast how seriously they are taking their training.
Thinking it about from different angle. If i had business and one job would be mowing a lawn. If i had two equally good hires, but one of them would every time draw a dick to the yard before finishing the job i would definedly hire the one that does not make company famous by drawing dicks on the peoples lawn.
Especially if my neigboring company was famously violent and had CEO who currently is trying to burn office of another nearby company on the ground and i had a reason to look professional, so my partner companies could trust to my professionalism in case the agressive company would try something underhanded. Especially if that company had 300 years of history of killing and enslaving my employees.
The cadets from the middle picture should be given promotions. That's some slick flying right there.
Looked like Homer Simpson below the wiener too.
Reprimanded by people stifling giggles
Should be used as training material, the bottom right corner is cut short on these as they turn on that leg, make a more gradual turn using the rudder to round out the shaft base
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That looks like a long, hard, throbbing, standard holding pattern
JOHNSON! That holding patter looks just like a…
The horror.
What else would pilots of the world happiest country do?
Sticking to a flight plan like that means you are successfully trained in that airframe, I see this as a positive check flight
I guess that's what happens when you have conscription and no war
Can't help but think of the enivromental devastation of all these "training exercises".
Russia is next door, seems warranted to me
Dem boys are gunna be alright.
Elon Musk's penis...
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2026
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