Liked that one! Afraid this ones a bit sexest, sorry ladies.

A blonde went up for a trial lesson in a helicopter, after a bit of local the chopper returned to the field and seemed to loose power and crashed. The investigators later asked her what went wrong and she simply replied "I got to hot so I turned the fan off!"

Bloke I know took a pretty girl up for aerobatics, got so distracted strapping her in he forgot his own lapstrap and nearly departed the aeroplane at the top of a loop. Good thing it wasn't a slow roll. A year later he took a farmer up. The farmer undid his straps to get at his camera just before the pilot began demonstrating aerobatics. Pilot nearly had a heart attack watching his passenger 'grow' under negative g... but pulled the stick back and saved the day.

Men!

You are under negative g when the aeroplane is upside down and flying level (also when it's right side up, if you dive very steeply, but only when you begin to dive). Being under negative g means gravity, instead of pushing you into your seat, pulls you out of it. To anyone watching (like the pilot in the back seat) someone under negative g  - who has undone his straps to get at his camera in this instance - will seem to grow as more and more of his body emerges. If the pilot is quick witted, all he has to do is pull back on the stick - this reverses the g.

If you loop an aeroplane, you can observe the opposite effect - the passenger 'shrinking' under four or five times the usual pull of gravity.

Of course the punishment for all this is when the passenger in the front cockpit is sick. Think about it.

This is not a joke, just what happened.

I took my 12 yo nephew for his first flight in the plane. We were IFR in the Florida panhandle.

We went into a cloud and after a few minutes came out the other side. He hit me on the shoulder and asked if we had left a hole in that cloud. We turned around and went back to look, we never did find a hole.

Ken Andrew.

N377SB