On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:06:40 -0800, Jim Logajan wrote
(in article ):

C J Campbell wrote:
If you say you have runaway trim, a
hijacker, or a large flying octopus that has covered your entire
windshield, it is an emergency, whether you 'declare' one or not.

If it's a giant squid instead of an octopus would it still be an emergency?
How about a monster in the aft circuitry room?


Or even something nasty in the woodshed? ("I saw something nasty in the
woodshed." -- Ada Doom in "Cold Comfort Farm")

I've seen those kinds of things on the old TV series "Voyage to the Bottom
of the Sea" and I can't remember if they ever declared an emergency. Of
course their altitude was rather low at the time. As I recal, their vehicle
had canards on the front but rather small stubby wings; here's a picture of
them at takeoff:

http://www.omenaheights.com/voyage_b...sea_breach.jpg

(I suppose the kinds of emergencies experienced on that show now explains
why aircraft don't have circuitry rooms and composite hull construction has
never been popular. If you have to dislodge the giant octopus/squid/monster
attached to the hull, there's nothing like running 100,000V through the
hull. But that's not so easy to do if the hull is an electrical insulator.)

Yeah, those guys had things like that happen to them every single week, too.
They must have spent waaaay to much time in the Bermuda Triangle. Or
something.

Speaking of which, I see National Geographic is reporting on their web site
that an expedition has caught a colossal squid (that is its name -- it is a
species even bigger than a giant squid). That thing might have caused a few
problems in the after circuitry room. :-)

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