{"id":339,"date":"2019-07-09T15:18:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T13:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/?p=339"},"modified":"2022-07-18T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T21:00:07","slug":"flyvevandrehistorie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"Flyvevandrehistorie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I The Cassell Dictionary of Anecdotes<\/em> st\u00f8dte jeg p\u00e5 f\u00f8lgende:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is very important to know your element. There was once a Secretary of State for Air who was himself a qualified pilot. He went down to Southampton to see and try out a new flying boat. He went up in it and after a bit he asked the pilot if he might take over the controls. This, of course, was agreed. They approached an airfield and the Minister circled round it and lost height steadily until the young man could bear it no longer. He said, ‘Sir, this is a flying boat, you know.’ The Minister gave him a very old-fashioned look and circled the airfield again. He then moved off and brought the flying boat down carefully on Southampton Water. As he turned to go, the young man, feeling that he might have blotted his copybook, said, ‘I hope, sir, you didn’t mind my saying that: I thought you might have forgotten this was a flying boat.’ The Minister looked at him and said, ‘My boy, cabinet ministers don’t make elementary mistakes like that.’ He then turned, said goodbye, opened the door and stepped into six feet of water.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under anekdoten st\u00e5r at l\u00e6se “Told by General Sir Brian Robertson, chairman of the British Transport Commission at the annual diner of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association (Inc) at Southend in 1954.” Enhver der har l\u00e6st Tintin-albummet Kong Ottokars scepter<\/em> vil huske, at det slutter med en meget lignende scene med Dupond og Dupont i ministerens rolle. De p\u00e5g\u00e6ldende sider fra den Tintinhistorie blev oprindeligt publiceret i 1939. Det ville jo v\u00e6re herligt om anekdoten virkelig havde rod i en virkelig h\u00e6ndelse, som er blevet bem\u00e6rket ikke bare af Robertson, men ogs\u00e5 af Herg\u00e9, men mere sandsynligt er det nok bare en vandrehistorie. En nets\u00f8gning afsl\u00f8rer en variant i en anden anekdotesamling, Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes. <\/em>Her er klovnerollen tildelt den gr\u00e6ske general Ioannis Metaxas (1879-1941):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a visit of inspection to an air base Metaxas was invited to test a new flying boat. He took the aircraft up for a short flight and was coming in to land when the commander of the base intervened: “Excuse me, General; it would be better to come down on the water; this is a flying boat.” Metaxas, who had been about to put the aircraft down on a runway, swerved quickly upward, made another circuit, and touched the flying boat down safely on the surface of the water. Metaxas switched off the engine and turned to his host. “Thank you, Commander, for preventing me from making a stupid blunder” – and so saying, briskly opened the aircraft’s door and jumped out into the water.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selvom jeg umiddelbart kun kan f\u00e5 Google til at lave en meget begr\u00e6nset “uddragsvisning”, er det nok til at konstatere, at Eric Woods’ bog From Flying Boats to Flying Jets<\/em>: Flying in the Formative Years of BOAC: 1946-1972 <\/em>ogs\u00e5 indeholder en version af anekdoten. Her er piloten en trainee, der tidligere kun har haft erfaring med almindelige fly. Som i Robertsons udgave er det dog stadig Southampton Water der landes p\u00e5:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

… boats, there is an amusing little anecdote concerning the ‘reverse’ conversion of one captain from land planes to flying boats, … Brought to a halt by the shocked flying boat training captain, the trainee apologised for his dreadful oversight, blaming it … He then flew the flying boat back to Southampton Water, made a perfect ‘landing’ on the sea and jumping out of his … <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denne sidste udgave forekommer mig umiddelbart mest trov\u00e6rdig, hvis der alts\u00e5 overhovedet ligger en virkelig h\u00e6ndelse til grund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I The Cassell Dictionary of Anecdotes st\u00f8dte jeg p\u00e5 f\u00f8lgende: It is very important to know your element. There was once a Secretary of State for Air who was himself a qualified pilot. He went down to Southampton to see and try out a new flying boat. He went up in it and after a … <\/p>\n

L\u00e6s videre “Flyvevandrehistorie”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-herge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}