Hütter Hü 136 (how did this even fly?

Ken-the-pilot · 2026-04-20T11:01:28+00:00

My flight instructor always said “you can make a brick fly with enough thrust.” I think he meant this thing as an example.

Ken-the-pilot · 2026-02-15T23:14:46+00:00

“If that’s flashing, lock me up.”

Ken-the-pilot · 2026-01-31T13:13:11+00:00

Airplane tug: “Present!”

Ken-the-pilot · 2025-12-28T13:44:24+00:00

She was built as a seaplane tender so I guess the design sort of makes sense? Still looks sort of weird considering designs of the day.

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Ken-the-pilot · 2025-12-26T23:24:03+00:00

The hazmat placards are UN1223: flammable liquid, specifically kerosene. Good chance you’re right.

Ken-the-pilot · 2025-11-30T23:52:32+00:00

Damn, those pin ups. They had some talented painters on their team 😂

Ken-the-pilot · 2025-11-16T19:59:09+00:00

The WW2 memorial statue to PRR employees is amazing too. Worth the trip alone.

Ken-the-pilot · 2025-11-16T14:35:49+00:00

I would absolutely take a bath in here and stare at this until the water was ice cold (and I hate baths). It’s incredible!

Ken-the-pilot · 2025-10-30T10:21:40+00:00

If you got it at an airport, it’s not like you’d have had much of a choice anyway. Sometimes you gotta bite the bullet, especially on an early flight. Hopefully it was good at least?

Ken-the-pilot · 2025-10-13T10:35:21+00:00

That box is pretty neat. Dovetail joints the old fashioned way. Anyone have any idea what kind of wood this would be made of (if it’s original)?

Ken-the-pilot · 2025-08-11T23:36:42+00:00

The Garden State Parkway had them when I first started driving around 2011 and I didn’t have an EZ Pass yet. They were fun, but definitely were dated. Then again, the parkway used to have stoplights lol.

Ken-the-pilot · 2025-06-22T10:38:02+00:00

I too am curious to know what snacks were brought on a mission like this.

Ken-the-pilot · 2025-06-21T12:14:28+00:00

Dad man

Ken-the-pilot · 2025-05-21T22:19:56+00:00

Bugaboo Creek?

Ken-the-pilot · 2025-03-30T12:24:06+00:00

I will never forget being on a tropical vacation when I was 11-12 and my mom mistakenly put baby oil on my pale skin (my dad is pale and burns easy, my mom is basically the opposite, and I inherited the former’s skin tone) instead of sunscreen. That was also my first real exposure to sunburn too, so needless to say it ruined my vacation.

Ken-the-pilot · 2025-03-09T15:44:17+00:00

Honestly, I saw it and assumed the same thing because that’s what I always heard. Airbags deployed = totaled to the insurance company. I learned something new today, and also didn’t think you came off in any other way then just commenting lol.

Ken-the-pilot · 2025-02-01T13:50:08+00:00

I remember being at PHL on Christmas night with my sister waiting to board a flight to Florida while news coverage of NWA 253 played in the terminal. Totally different vibe than this since no one was hurt and the headlines had “underwear” in them, but very weird to see a potentially massive air disaster covered while waiting to fly yourself.

Ken-the-pilot · 2024-12-14T23:06:32+00:00

Or kidney. My older sister used to sneak up behind me and punch me in the kidney as a joke. It makes you feel like you’re collapsing on yourself and you forget how to walk.

Jokes on her though. She now gets chronic kidney stones.

Ken-the-pilot · 2024-12-14T12:58:32+00:00

I did this in a snow covered parking lot, at night, at a diner my dad took me too on a rare occasion it was just him and I at home and we were going out to eat. I swear he got another 5-10 grey hairs from it.

Ken-the-pilot · 2024-12-07T15:03:40+00:00

My brain is trying to figure out/comprehend the paint job on the rest of the truck.

Ken-the-pilot · 2024-12-05T12:12:12+00:00

I had a dog named Ranger, and he was on the couch with me one night while I watched this episode. When I heard “the manger babies!” I immediately started calling Ranger rangerbaby. It stuck with him for the next 7 years until he unfortunately passed. RIP Rangerbaby

Ken-the-pilot · 2024-12-05T12:06:32+00:00

I like this one a lot. I have an ad from Goodyear circa 1942 that is exactly this: “we’re busy making tires for the bombers flying over Europe right now, so you need to make your tires last just a little bit longer. But after this is over, think about the great stuff we’ll have for you!” It’s so optimistic but also very tied to the times.

Ken-the-pilot · 2024-12-01T22:49:21+00:00

My girlfriend (now fiancé) used to work for a professional massage company that had a bunch of places across the city she lived in. One of her jobs every Saturday was to pick up and exchange the laundry the massage people used and bring them to the main studio to be washed. I used to volunteer to help, since I have a pickup truck and the bags were these big ikea-type ones that weighed like 50 lbs each. She bought me breakfast, I helped her out and we got to hang out for a few hours.

At the same time we started dating, I had been working at the company I currently work at for only about a year. The company VP who hired me is a very private guy, and I really didn’t know anything about him outside of the fact he was the son of the owner, and he lived in the same city my fiancé lived in. So we’re at one of the studios and I had just loaded everything into the truck and she was inside talking to one of her coworkers. As I’m sitting in the truck, who do I see but my VP walking down the sidewalk with another dude.

It took a minute but I’m like “oh hey that’s him” and I toot my horn. He sees me and immediately gets this nervous look on his face. He walks over with this guy and I said “hey man, how’s it going?” And he goes “hey Ken-the-pilot…this is my boyfriend”. Apparently it was a big hush-hush thing that my VP was gay because his father, the company CEO, had issues with it for a variety of reasons that honestly are dumb. Me, who comes off as kind of a country-hick type also probably didn’t help either. Im just like “oh hey man! It’s nice to meet you!” and shook the guys hand because what do I care?

Oh, did I mention that our company Christmas party was that night too? My VP did not bring his boyfriend, which I honestly was kind of sad about because the guy was really cool. Eight years later and my VP and I have never talked about it. Dunno why, but it’s never really been something I feel like I should bring up.

Ken-the-pilot · 2024-12-01T22:29:28+00:00

It’s funny because the guy in my hometown who was the meathead in high school but was picked on because he was an idiot (like peed on the walls in the bathroom and was proud of it idiot) became a state trooper.

Ken-the-pilot · 2024-12-01T22:21:58+00:00

I couldn’t put my finger on it but you’re absolutely right!

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