A little bit of Norton (Brit bike) humor

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One night last week I couldn't sleep so I got up and started watching TV.

I episode was titled "Mighty Planes" , the C5A. Cutting to the chase the commentator says, "For each flight hour these aircraft get 76 hours of maintenance". Back in the day the Brit bike expression was, "Ride an hour, wrench an hour"...

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And who can forget the old adage .... If a Brit bike doesn't leak, it's out of oil.

I used to watch HD guys trying to kick start their beasts, and would get back at them with "seeing that you are nearly stripped down to your underwear, you are getting close!"

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Back in the late 90's, I was in an F/A-18 squadron with newer charlie models , (but not the super hornets they fly now). We'd deployed on board the USS Independence and were in the Persian Gulf in support of the No Fly Zone over Iraq. We worked 12 on 12 off in the air frame shop and I was on night check. It was however the F-14 guys I felt bad for, (they were flying alpha models) & their airframe shop had so much work they had to split each shift (days and nights) in half: so that one day half of them worked an extra 4 hours, so 16 hours on / 8 hours off. The next day was 12 on 12 off while the other half then worked the 16 / 8 schedule and so it went for the 6 months at sea for both day check and night check shifts. Tomcats were very labor intensive!!
 
For me every ride is a test ride for the previous maintenance or repair;
 

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One night last week I couldn't sleep so I got up and started watching TV.

I episode was titled "Mighty Planes" , the C5A. Cutting to the chase the commentator says, "For each flight hour these aircraft get 76 hours of maintenance". Back in the day the Brit bike expression was, "Ride an hour, wrench an hour"...

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Compare that to the now-defunct Space Shuttle!
 
RoadScholar said:
One night last week I couldn't sleep so I got up and started watching TV.

I episode was titled "Mighty Planes" , the C5A. Cutting to the chase the commentator says, "For each flight hour these aircraft get 76 hours of maintenance". Back in the day the Brit bike expression was, "Ride an hour, wrench an hour"...

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Sounds a lot like Harley Davidson “ride a mile walk the rest “.

Sorry had to add it I don’t have any Brit bike humor
 
Hey Hey! Harley has a very successful chain of repair centers, I visit them on each trip!
 
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