Touching Airplanes
I was just watching a video while cleaning a Winchester 94 for pictures when I noticed the guy slapped his palm on the side of the plane he was boarding. I realized that when I was flying a lot, I always did the same thing. Why?? I don't know, just acknowledging my appreciation for a fine machine that I hoped would be trouble free for at least the next few hours maybe?? Any of you folks do that, or is it just me??
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That is just a human "feel good" reaction to a machine that performs it's function safely and well as designed.
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something about touching it on the way in will equal touching it on the way out in one piece
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I have kissed the ground a few times when we landed, especially on some of the regional airlines I have flown on in Africa.
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Trust touch. Meaning all the folks that made that plane , maintain it , and fly it. You are in their hands.
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Touch (slap/hit?) it hard enough to make sure parts don't fall off?
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Touch (slap/hit?) it hard enough to make sure parts don't fall off?
When NW Airlines was still flying the last of the 727s, I would always tap the side of the door briskly with the side of my hand.
My first commercial flight was in one of those in the mid 60s, and last flew on one in the mid 90s.
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I haven't flown much since my days in the USAF but I did a lot of preflight inspections back then. The few times I flew commercial, the enclosed boarding ramps kept me from even seeing the plane I was entering.
I do have a similar habit that I picked up from some unremembered relative. "Knock on Wood" is something I do all the time now days! I even go out of my way to find REAL wood to knock on!
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I first thought this was a thread about Epstein’s fleet.
Don
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Oh I thought you meant planes actually touching.
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Invariably I hit my head on the door frame. Not sure if that's what you're referring to though.
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When I was skydiving I would pat the plane when boarding...........a sort of reassurance that it would get me to 14,5000 AGL without issues and allow me to make my exit. 97 civilian jumps here with a B license.
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my father was an 82 Nd Airborne paratrooper in WW2. He said that the extra $30.00 a month jump pay was the only reason to jump out of a perfectly good airplane . Skydiving , like getting a tattoo is something you will never see me do. No one sticks needles in me recreationally nor do I jump out of planes ✈️
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