How Aircraft Stay In The Air

"Brian Sharrock" wrote in message ...
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WTH is Chicken Tikka Masala? Is that anything like Buffalo Wings?

Chicken Tikka Masala (CTM) is apparently the most requested (I nearly
said popular) dish served in Indian-restaurants in the UK. The dish is
reputed to have originated in the midlands when a Brummie asked the
waiter for some sauce for the diner's rather dry roast chicken pieces.
The resultant dish became famous, now appears on the menu in almost
every Indian-Takeaway outlet and can be found in the instant-meal
section of supermarkets. AIUI, the dish is now exported to the Indian
subcontinent itself!

CTM could be regarded as a culinary disaster and many military(aviators)
and matelots consume vast quantities on runs ashore.

HTH

there could be a variation on those last two words if mutton vindaloo
was the subject.

(Grantland) wrote in message ...
(Jack Linthicum) slimed:

"Sarah Hotdesking" wrote in message ...
"Fred J. McCall" wrote
Which brings us to the unofficial motto where I work:

Let The Pigs Fly!

At the risk of starting a motto competition:

"All pigs fed and ready to fly"

"Cry havoc and let fly the pigs of war" (military aerospace company)

"We're going full boar"

I was tempted to make jokes about boarsight, but it might turn sow-er and
then I'd feel gilt-y.

It would appear that the Jim Henson Muppet Show "Pigs in Space"
continuing skit about the Starship Swine Trek made it to Angli-terre.

JIM HENSON'S MUPPETS: PIGS IN SPACE DELUXE PLAYSET
If any single skit from The Muppet Show leaps to mind when thinking
about the glory days of the show, it is Pigs in Space! Featuring Capt.
Link Hogthrob, Dr. Strangepork (Series 4), and First Mate Piggy, Pigs
in Space chronicled the adventures of the crew of the Swine Trek on

'Bet you got a kick out of that, eh, slimeboy.



I probably should be the last one in this NG to ask this question but:
what brought on the gratuitous crack? Someone step on your hands as
you were leaving your local?

(Moggycat) wrote in message . com...
"Brian Sharrock" wrote

Chicken Tikka Masala (CTM) is apparently the most requested (I nearly
said popular) dish served in Indian-restaurants in the UK. The dish is
reputed to have originated in the midlands when a Brummie asked the
waiter for some sauce for the diner's rather dry roast chicken pieces.

I heard that it originated on Manchester's "Curry Mile"; same story
about wanting sauce (a result of Brits liking gravy with their meat),
but allegedly the sauce was made using Campbell's tomato soup and
curry spices.

The resultant dish became famous, now appears on the menu in almost
every Indian-Takeaway outlet and can be found in the instant-meal
section of supermarkets. AIUI, the dish is now exported to the Indian
subcontinent itself!

Birmingham is the home of Balti, also exported and found in the
ready-meals chilled cabinets the length and breadth of Britain.
However balti lacks the staining power of a relly good tikka masala
and is less useful in feline propulsion units.

I'm advised that many instances of civil planes mysteriously falling
out of the sky can be traced to (a) cessation of happy thoughts/lack
of lemon fondant for the pixies or to (b) a large amount of happy
thoughts/gateau mountain at ground level distracting the pixies from
their task. This may, of course, be utter hogwash, but then we'd be
back to the flying pigs ....



Curry powered flying pigs any-one ?

(Moggycat) wrote in message om...
Porcine Aviation photo at
http://www.shartwell.freeserve.co.uk...aviation2.html

Very few images exist as the shutter speed on most cameras just isn't
fast enough to capture a flying pig in action - just get a blur as it
zooms past.


So there -are- UFP's (Unidentified Flying Porcines) its that you can't
read the ear tag as they flash by :-)

"George" wrote in message
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(Moggycat) wrote in message
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I'm advised that many instances of civil planes mysteriously falling
out of the sky can be traced to (a) cessation of happy thoughts
[which cause Thrust Pixies to withdraw their effort]

Happy thoughts may cease if another passenger suffers the gaseous
consequences of last night's curry. Confined spaces and curry-fuelled farts
do not go together well.

Curry powered flying pigs any-one ?

Only when projectile vomiting a dodgy pork curry .....

--
Sarah H
http://www.messybeast.com
http://www.shartwell.freeserve.co.uk...-site/aeth.htm
Aethism - a religion for the 21st Century

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 20:32:29 -0000, "Sarah Hotdesking"
wrote:

"George" wrote in message
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(Moggycat) wrote in message
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I'm advised that many instances of civil planes mysteriously falling
out of the sky can be traced to (a) cessation of happy thoughts
[which cause Thrust Pixies to withdraw their effort]

Happy thoughts may cease if another passenger suffers the gaseous
consequences of last night's curry. Confined spaces and curry-fuelled farts
do not go together well.

Curry powered flying pigs any-one ?

Only when projectile vomiting a dodgy pork curry .....

"The Ladies' Handbook includes a small section addressing etiquette
at common events (meals, church, church fair, funeral, wedding) plus
a section of approximately 150 recipes."

http://www.acanthus-books.com/ladethannewh.html

ah the times they are a-changing.


--
Jim Watt
Gibraltar Information and Images
http://www.gibnet.com

(George) wrote:

:Curry powered flying pigs any-one ?

Only if you can guarantee I'll never be under one....

(Jack Linthicum) writes:

For those lucky enough to find theselves in Tokyo and in need of a
real spicy food fix may I recommend the Restaurant Ajanta? Try the dry
minced curry (Called Chicken Korma in the rest of the world) and be
very careful if you are offered what appears to be an innocent
marinated vegetable salad. http://www.ajanta.co.jp/index-e.html They
used to be in a little hole-in-the wall near the Indian Embassy but
from their ad now seem to have gone high-rise.

Aha, wonderful! Thanks for that. Are you in Japan occasionally then?
Let me know...
--
G Hassenpflug * IJN & JMSDF equipment/history fan

(running with scissors) writes:

"Duke of URL" macbenahATkdsiDOTnet wrote in message ...
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Sarah Hotdesking radiated
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WTH is Chicken Tikka Masala? Is that anything like Buffalo Wings?

mild indian dish, which of course everyone knows that traditional
english food is indian.

Indeed, when the IJN copied the RN's practices, they incorporated as
well the typical Britich custom of curry for Friday lunch.

another variation of the dish, which is often found in less reputable
resteraunts is the "kitten tikka masala"

Hoohah, variations on a theme.

--
G Hassenpflug * IJN & JMSDF equipment/history fan

(Jack Linthicum) wrote in message . com...
"Sarah Hotdesking" wrote in message ...
I received this today:-

There are still people in this company who think we weigh aircraft to find
out how much they weigh, not to calculate stresses. Of course we need to
know how much the thing weighs. How are we ever going to know how many
Thrust Pixies we need to get the thing off the ground if we don't know the
weight? Or should that be "Lift Demons"? Pixies have largely fallen into
disrepute - something about Bernoulli not being representative in unbounded
conditions and cause and effect being transposed in the Newtonian model.

In fact the use of Lift Demons on civil aircraft programmes is generally not
that good an idea. The Demon binding contract tends to specify payment in
blood or souls. This is readily achievable with aircraft of military
function, but frowned upon in civilian circles as they may attempt to
acquire payment outside of the terms of their binding contract. Lift Demons
are not used on Elf bombers. We don't talk about Lift Pixies too often as it
seems to upset the self-loading cargo.

Pixies require payment in cakes, flowers or nice thoughts. These are readily
sourced either from the in-flight catering, or provided cost-free by the
passengers. Clearly this would not work well within an operational military
environment. Air force cooking is not renowned for the "light and fluffy
texture" that Thrust Pixies demand, the availability of flowers might be
problematic in desert operations, and nice thoughts may also be hard to find
during times of active operations.

There is also a scalability issue. While one rampant Lift Demon would have
few problems supporting a fighter aircraft (particularly if there is an
immediate prospect of blood), it'll struggle to achieve level controlled
flight of a 560tonne Airbus A380. Use of more than one Lift Demon on the
same flight vehicle is contra-indicated (they squabble and eat each other).
Communities of Thrust Pixies can be encouraged to work together on the same
aircraft by the provision of advanced technologies such as Lemon fondant
icing, variegated tulips or in-flight romantic comedies.

Ryanair once requested Leprachauns be installed in place of Lift Pixies, but
leprechauns have a mission statement which indicates their desire for
monetary gain, and their willingness to search all over the world for it.
This makes Lift Leprechauns expensive to keep (gold vs lemon fondant icing),
and makes it difficult to establish a regular route network as the Lift
Leprechauns don't like to continuously visit the same locations. By law,
aircraft also have to have a full complement of In-Flight Gremlins, but
these are generally not a problem unless you feed the Wingtip Vortex Faeries
after midnight.


No one seems to have mentioned the method used by contract air
services in WestPac in the 1960s. I flew from Tachikawa to Hong Kong
and the pilot assured us upon landing that we would awaken and
remember only a very pleasant trip and would empty our wallets into
the container held by the hostesses as we left the airplane.

Here is a new article explaining Lift without Lift Demons!:

http://ej.iop.org/links/q33/,iXwkh9e.../pe3_6_001.pdf "How do wings work?


Jan-Olov Newborg