Helicopters Jokes / Recent Jokes
This is supposedly a true story from a recent Defence Science Lectures
Series, as related by the head of the Australian DSTO's Land
Operations/Simulation division.
They've been working on some really nifty virtual reality simulators, the
case in point being to incorporate Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters into
exercises (from the data fusion point of view). Most of the people they
employ on this sort of thing are ex- (or future) computer game programmers.
Anyway, as part of the reality parameters, they include things like trees
and animals. For the Australian simulation they included kangaroos. In
particular, they had to model kangaroo movements and reactions to
helicopters (since hordes of disturbed kangaroos might well give away a
helicopter's position).
Being good programmers, they just stole some code (which was originally used
to model infantry detachments reactions under the same stimuli), and changed
the mapped icon, the more...
A blonde wanted to start flying helicopters. For her first flight, only single helicopters were available. Her flight instructor figured this was okay, considering she had been a pilot before. The blonde had a successful take-off. At 1,000 feet she was fine. Same at 2,000 feet. But then, when she reached 3,000 feet, the helicopter stopped and crashed down. The blonde was fine, so the instructor asked her what happened. The blonde replied with, "Well, I got cold, so I turned off the ceiling fan!"