| Not so much a joke...
Not so much a joke but a true story when the Lockheed Constellation airliner was being tested during the late forties,the airliner was out on a test flight with a less than efficent flight engineer taken from the Lockheed workforce,the aircraft was cruising along nicely and the pilot was making numerous notes,he then asked the green flight engineer to 'cut four' meaning to cut engine number four,the flight engineer mis-intepreted and chopped all four engines !! the aircraft dropped like a stone and the pilot reached frantically for the starter buttons,after an alarming few thousand feet drop the aircraft regained all four engines and levelled out.
The story became a classic amongst Lockheed employees,every time I see the publicity advert where a pilot shuts down a few motors it reminds me of this incident.
OK-What do you think the pilot would have said to that flight engineer after this incident ? answers here on a postcard please.
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