Maybe Gertrude is the pilots ex-wife. She shot him and jumped off the plane. No one saw her because she was a midget.
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Maybe Gertrude is the pilots ex-wife. She shot him and jumped off the plane. No one saw her because she was a midget.
I've made some research on google and it seems there is no gertrude rocket, virus or desease.
But I'm sure that in this problem, it is a rocket. ;)
A goose flying into/through the engine is the answer. Unless of course it was a duck or a loon.
Note: duck is a funny word.
A gertrude is what they called the underwater phones on subs in world war II.
You know they have windows on planes...you can see a duck duck goose. Ok so it might be blurry.
/Quack Quack.
Jet big. Goose small.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
Jet move fast. Goose move slow.
Pilot no see goose. Goose enter engine.
Kaboom.
It has happened.
Geese and Airplanes
From another site:
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Only 325 people have are known to have died in bird strike aircraft crashes since the beginning of aviation, according to BSC. The last time birds killed airline passengers in the United States was in 1960, when a flock of Canada Geese took down a Lockheed Electra taking off from Boston's Logan International Airport. And a USAF Boeing 707 "AWACS" radar/surveillance jet crashed on takeoff in 1995 at Elmendorf AFB in Alaska after geese crippled the jet. All 24 crew died.
You don't say... there are thousands of bird strikes every year. But then we are talking about probabilities. It is likely we are talking about a bird strike, since gertrude is a common name for pet geese. But there is also the probability that the crew and passengers would see a goose being sucked into the engine, especially at take off and landing. During crusing meh..a nice blur would do... well it looked like a goose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom Frohman
We could also say the crew/passengers were blindfolded and gerturde is a serial killer :) [I see chmanish covered that topic below :) ]
The plane carried 300 blind passengers. When the plane took off, Gertrude told the blind people that plane can not take off due tostrong winds and guided them out of the plane. Then she jumped out with a parachute. :rolleyes:
:D And yes, they were deaf too :D
Gertrude is the name of a novel by Hermann Hesse. Copies of the book were left under the seats by the clown convention that booked the plane on the last flight. The passengers all read the book and died of boredom.
As the plane was going down the books all jumped out of the plane.
Meanwhile in a small sweatshop in New York, Vlad and Serge were finishing their milk and cookies. It was a slow day. Nobody had bought any sweat today. They felt their labors had been wasted and considered a new line of business. "Maybe we could make a living by asking questions in the question and answer thread on Codeguru?" Serge suggested. It was a stupid idea but somebody had to do it.
This turned the page on a new era in world history.
That's why there is a canon on airplane test centers to shoot 3 kinds of birds into the engine. Big birds, medium birds and small birds.... For testing purpose ... of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom Frohman
Hmm ... maybe Gertrude is an old quicksilver thermometer which broke in the plane...
/Quicky doesn't like aluminium
Unavailable for comment.Quote:
Originally Posted by NoHero
Search for Gertrude and Jet on Google and you will find:
http://www.webspawner.com/users/doubleminttwins1940/
~*LATERAL THINKING PUZZLES*~
(from the book Lateral Thinking Puzzles by Paul Sloane & Des MacHale)
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When Gertrude entered the plane she caused her own death and the deaths of 200 other people. Yet she was never blamed or criticized for her actions. What happened?(scroll down for clues)
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***********************GERTRUDE**********************************
Gertrude, a goose, had been sucked into a jet engine.
And here comes the story about the frozen chicken ... :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by NoHero
Chicken Chops?Quote:
Originally Posted by Elrond