* this thread needs YOU ! *, Which car/motorbike/tractor/drone/plane/skateboard/surfboard/boat/train is the coolest ever

I have heard of an accident been glider and helicopters they do happen and for the one I remember the glider pilot was ok but  the helicopter just dropped out of the sky.  In short you are very unlikely to survive a helicopter crash !

I read somewhere that it's about 10mm skin per 10mph if you come off over 30mph!  

i now two slightly damaged knees :) but 30 mph on a skateboard is very thrilling !

what has 4 wings and flies    ans: 2 birds 

what has 4 whells and flies     ans:  a bin lorry 

The scariest thing I've done recently was fly over the Solent in a helicopter - 2 near misses with a powered glider and a bigger helicopter at just 50 feet away and the realisation that we had no life-vests and that helicopters don't float - and if we went down, if no-one noticed us going down, we'd be on our own in the middle of a rough bit of water.

You've reminded me that I went to a RN Air Day about 1967 and saw one of the first F4 Phantoms based there. Rather more mundane were the Sea Vixens, which I would regularly see engaged in offshore bombing target practice; from the same base. But that day was memorable for a couple of other equally indelible reasons.

We were taken to the air day  by the larger-than-life local bobby; and one very much of the old school, who believed in crime prevention by punishing you himself, before you ever got around to committing any crime. Heading through an always traffic-jammed town on the way, I had my first real taste of the cop vs traffic warden war. (Wardens had recently been given greater powers.) Right in the middle of town was a traffic warden, controlling the lights. He was probably just trying to make it a bit easier for folks heading to the air day So as we are barrelling past the traffic warden, the cop winds down his window and shouts at the warden, "Stop playing with the bloody lights, cretin! You haven't a clue what you're ****ing doing!" That was probably the first time I had ever heard the 'ing' profanity used by a respected local.

About an hour later, we stopped off to look at the cop's family orchard, which was almost right next to the runway. It really was a huge base, but it was remarkably idyllic in that orchard on a sunny day. So there was I having a silent slash, when I put my foot in an enormous cowpat. Or so I thought at the time. I turned out to be a humongous rotten apple. (A definite bouquet of rotten apple, added to a certain lingering crispness you don't normally associate with cow pats.) I am accustomed to cider orchards, but that was the only pumpkin-sized faller I've ever seen. That was an old style orchard, with enormous trees. It was a wonderful late summer scene, but not greatly appreciated because it took me quite a long time to clean up my shoe sufficient to be allowed back into the cop's Triumph Herald.

That cop has another indelible place in my memory. I was invited to his son's birthday party. The cop was actually quite a playful sort, given half a chance. He had designed a number of riddles and games for the party, with one clue card specifically for each attendee. Mine had an anagram of my own name on it, and he had also scrawled a hole at the top of the card, which he labelled as my 'escape hole' to get out of doing what most other kids would do gladly. That was probably the first time someone ever really suggested I might be a bit weird. He wasn't a bad old stick actually, but I was definitely put out by that one; even though I could plainly see it for myself;

aidie said:

towed on a skateboard while holding on to a motorcycle. Don't do it !

It is late (00:50h) again. But additional FYI for anyone interested... as far as I know/have seen: being "towed" can be done on RollerSkates and on an All-Terrain Board. It has a lot to do with wheel size and with skills... an AllTerrainBoard has bigger wheels, and for Rollers there exists the sport of "speed skating" anyway. 

... As Said, with regards to using a skateboard...? Indeed - NO 'don't try this at home, kids!', even though Marty McFly seemed to do it, it was just a Movie! And I guess that I am signing off for now with that (slightly reckless) Public Information Message.  

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I think someone needs to help plastic with his engine sounds too???

Being an Artist and Illustrator Myself (...), the ways to write "engine sounds" are often:

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt, Bbbbbrrrrrrrr, Vroom, Pbbpbbpbb, fwoosh, zoom, zing, zow, whoosh, and for changing gears it is Grngrngrngrn, Grind, erk, screek, and for stalling - as You all may already know - ...it is *PHUT*!

I am being serious, but, well, yes it reads as funny unless having to draw these things Oneself, okay? Anyone not understanding this can just *phut*-off, so there.  ;-)

get it out DC it will do you good. Never been on an All-Terrain board but there is time still. I have combined the two ie I have been towed on a skateboard while holding on to a motorcycle. Don't do it !

This something else which I have always wanted to say publicly again. When I used to skate, Skaters and MotorCyclists were very NICE to Me. Pedestrians and Pushbikers were not. It is like a sort of hidden hierarchy/pecking-order going on, just like cyclists vs car drivers vs Bus drivers... Just airing a thought, there.

Another digression, やれやれ...

I am a RollerSkater Myself, or am trying to be. Social constraints and all. I prefer All-Terrain Boards, rather than Skateboards. Skateboarders, I see them trundling down a road, thinking that they are really fast and silent, but they are the opposite. But please do not tell anyone else that I said that. (!) 

(Puts nose up in a haughty manner, and says "pfui!" yet again.)

See the next reply, though...

...Indeed. It got so frantic just now that My old device could not cope, threw a wobbler, crashed, and I had to reset and sign in again... (!) As it is, sorry I may disappoint -again- but this is the thing:

Disambiguating Cynosure said:

because of the aircraft carried upon them.

...So I posted that lovely Harrier, there. I envy You, Sir, to have gotten so close to one... I would have had trouble resisting urge to run up and HUG the thing (Me being a 'sissy-girl' 'n all that)...!

I went to an airshow in about 1971 when the Harrier was entering service - they made a 3 foot high fence about 60 feet diameter with people packed around it and landed a Harrier in it - I was at the fence where the left wing tip was literally about 6 feet away - the noise was unbelievable and the blast from the engine and manoeuvring tip jet was right in my face! 

There's no way on earth they would ever do that sort of thing now. 

what no skateboarders ?

things are getting big !

put one up ! lets have a look see pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

lol

I also remember that joke, just because they were so 'blocky' back then. But I respected Skodas because at the same time, I was also told that they were "built like Tanks". In Cars I sat in, I was told that if they crashed into a Skoda, the other Car would always come off worst (Steel vs. Aluminium)...  :-)

my favorite one as well - I seen one hover at a show right in front of me it was an incredibility noise and a peek into the future of flying machines. Clearly one of the best aircraft ever designed, built, and combat tested. I have part of one in my living room 

This is MY favourite Jet-Aircraft ever... The Hawk-Sid Harrier, VTOL, British, but ...R.I.P. (*sniffle*). 

After that it would be the F14-Tomcat, (Swing-wing aircraft  ) which I once built a little toy of, when really Young. (I am so old fashioned...)