SixPapaCharlie
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Hypothetically, you're flying along in your plane.
It can be any plane at all.
Any plane with a sliding canopy that opens.
Its 106 degrees out and you land at an FBO and see popcorn in the vending machine and so you buy a bag, pop it, and hop back in your plane with the sliding canopy and low wing.
Its very hot in the plane and you realize maybe popcorn is not the best hot day snack in your sliding canopy, low wing, blue and white plane.
You have the thought that popcorn is totally biodegradable and more importantly the thought of folks randomly noticing popcorn falling from the sky is pretty funny, and
could to some potential religious implications. You may even start a cult.
So after thinking over the situation for a bit, you find yourself over Okmulgee Oklahoma.
Its time.
You decide to throw caution to the wind and also your popcorn.
Right away you realize the wind is so strong that it is almost impossible to get any popcorn out of the bag because the mouth of the bag is forced closed.
You are not a quitter and you have goals so you reach out with your other hand and rip the bag freeing all of the popcorn in a blast of great smelling goodness at 5500 feet MSL.
As you continue the flight, you (while looking for traffic of course) think of all the scenarios that could unfold on the ground. These thoughts bring you a lot of joy.
Birds might catch it in flight. Perhaps it would land in the grass and germinate forming the future cornfields of Okmulgee. Maybe another plane would fly into the popcorn storm
and post on a forum about flying into a cloud of his favorite snack. So many possible outcomes.
You continue back to your homedrome and grease the 34rd best landing of your flying tenure and head to the hanger.
All is well but as you are putting the plane away, you notice that the plane smells really really good. Not coffee under the cowl good but really good.
You go to put the canopy cover on and see a 3 foot by 8 inch smear of popcorn butter along the back left window.
Of course you lick it just to make sure its not butter scented oil that leaked out in flight or some other random smear left over from a different non popcorn related butter encounter.
Yup, its buttery and salty and the plane has never tasted better.
Hypothetically in this situation, do you try to reclaim the butter for later use or is it better to get ye ole fiber of micro cloth and wipe it into oblivion?
You'd lick the cloth after of course but how to proceed first...
Also if ever you were standing in a random field.... or even a specific one for that matter, and found yourself under a small popcorn shower I wonder what all one might consider as to the cause.
Y'all can come lick my plane while I decide what to do next.
It can be any plane at all.
Any plane with a sliding canopy that opens.
Its 106 degrees out and you land at an FBO and see popcorn in the vending machine and so you buy a bag, pop it, and hop back in your plane with the sliding canopy and low wing.
Its very hot in the plane and you realize maybe popcorn is not the best hot day snack in your sliding canopy, low wing, blue and white plane.
You have the thought that popcorn is totally biodegradable and more importantly the thought of folks randomly noticing popcorn falling from the sky is pretty funny, and
could to some potential religious implications. You may even start a cult.
So after thinking over the situation for a bit, you find yourself over Okmulgee Oklahoma.
Its time.
You decide to throw caution to the wind and also your popcorn.
Right away you realize the wind is so strong that it is almost impossible to get any popcorn out of the bag because the mouth of the bag is forced closed.
You are not a quitter and you have goals so you reach out with your other hand and rip the bag freeing all of the popcorn in a blast of great smelling goodness at 5500 feet MSL.
As you continue the flight, you (while looking for traffic of course) think of all the scenarios that could unfold on the ground. These thoughts bring you a lot of joy.
Birds might catch it in flight. Perhaps it would land in the grass and germinate forming the future cornfields of Okmulgee. Maybe another plane would fly into the popcorn storm
and post on a forum about flying into a cloud of his favorite snack. So many possible outcomes.
You continue back to your homedrome and grease the 34rd best landing of your flying tenure and head to the hanger.
All is well but as you are putting the plane away, you notice that the plane smells really really good. Not coffee under the cowl good but really good.
You go to put the canopy cover on and see a 3 foot by 8 inch smear of popcorn butter along the back left window.
Of course you lick it just to make sure its not butter scented oil that leaked out in flight or some other random smear left over from a different non popcorn related butter encounter.
Yup, its buttery and salty and the plane has never tasted better.
Hypothetically in this situation, do you try to reclaim the butter for later use or is it better to get ye ole fiber of micro cloth and wipe it into oblivion?
You'd lick the cloth after of course but how to proceed first...
Also if ever you were standing in a random field.... or even a specific one for that matter, and found yourself under a small popcorn shower I wonder what all one might consider as to the cause.
Y'all can come lick my plane while I decide what to do next.
