Free Flight, Free Speech

“Beware the Jabberwock, MiG29!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

Lewis Caroll wrote:JABBERWOCKY


’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

And I don't think, MiG29Pilot, you will have such satisfactory children's book end

And this nonsense dragon comes with a tool belt, so what can possibly go wrong?

What can possibly go wrong? Let me tell you ...

I've test-flown some of JWocky's aircraft when the Frumious Bandersnatches got loose in the flight deck.


Image courtesy of Ace Records

The band, their equipment, the roadies, the constant demands for sound checks, or having pizza delivered at FL350--all crammed into the cockpit. Deodorant? Apparently it's not a part of their creative ambience. That's bad enough. But the groupies are the worst. They're always whining about wanting to fly the plane or complaining their iPhones don't work at 40,000 feet or wanting to check their Facebook page on the CDU because it looks kind of like a tablet. It's enough to drive a guy mimsy and to go out and gyre and gimble in the wabe!

It is not pretty.

With all that chaos, I invariably end up doing a JabberWocky landing, because some girl named Butterfly has turned on the stage bubble-making machine filling the flight deck and all I can see is hundreds of bubblized sets of runway lights through the windscreen. My only resort is to aim for the brightest lines and that ends up being the taxiways, despite what ATC is screaming in my headset.

The paperwork for that bit of aviation theatrics is worse than getting cut by a vorpal blade.

But the galumphing afterward is downright beamish. Know what I mean? Knudge, knudge. Wink, wink?

Callooh, callay, y'all! I'm off to hunt the elusive jub-jub!

SkyBoat wrote:
With all that chaos, I invariably end doing a JabberWocky landing, because ...

Do you mean you elegantly flare to then touch down well centered in taxiway Yankee?

I can get a hundred years old and I won't outlive those landings

I'm still baffled by the DC-8-73's often weird loss of wing lift when near the start of a runway.

LOL. I never knew what jabberwocky meant. I thought it was a nonsense made-up nickname like mine.
I also thought this Polish band made up the "dziub dziub" bird.

@simbambin--

It is a nonsense word from the twisted mind of the literary genius, Lewis Carroll (1832-1898). The poem is included in Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There published in 1872. Looking-Glass was the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland), written in 1865.

See these three links for more information:

http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland

Now get out there flame some jubjub birds!

Yes, but I thought Jabberwocky made this up himself.