The Coffee Place's Joke Stack
The pilot and his copilot are coming in for a landing in America for the first time.
"We'd better be careful with this one," comments the pilot. "I've heard that American runways are very short."
A while later, they descend through the clouds, and see the runway. "That runway is *very* short," says the pilot. "We'll have to bring it in low, land at the very edge, and apply full reverse thrust the whole way to stop in time."
Five minutes later, about to land: "That runway is just terribly short. I have a bad feeling about this."
So the plane comes in low; they touch down at the very edge; and with brakes shrieking and engines roaring at full reverse thrust, they finally come to a screeching halt just in time.
The copilot wipes the sweat from his brow, looks around, and says, "You're right! American runways are very short. But *boy*, are they WIDE!"
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