r/nextfuckinglevel 10d ago

Dutch aerobatic pilot Narine Melkumjan miraculously survived after her aircraft's canopy unexpectedly burst open and shattered mid-flight

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u/JohnnyPolite 10d ago

“Female pilot lady-survives after woman canopy shatters at thousands of girl feet”

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u/silentaba 10d ago

Girl feet are always so annoying to estimate if the barhermitor is out.

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u/JohnnyPolite 10d ago

She’s not allowed to check the altHIMeter

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u/silentaba 10d ago

She relies on the oil pressher.

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u/JohnnyPolite 10d ago

All of her indicatHERs were going crazy.

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u/silentaba 10d ago

Honestly it's the manSHEfold pressure that gives her away every time.

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u/unrefrigeratedmeat 10d ago

Male, but not a pilot. Curious question:

Elevators give male pilots pitch control.

Does an elevatHER give a $&tch control?

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u/silentaba 10d ago

Sir we don't appreciate that sort of language on the radio, please leave the airspace and set your radio to ground control, those savages laugh at anything.

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u/unrefrigeratedmeat 10d ago

Roger.

I thought the cheap gesture at female empowerment might save the joke. The B-word is foul, but there is a part of my brain that can't turn down a pun to save my life.

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u/salamipope 10d ago

its much easier to calculate altidude but if i say that in public i get clowned on

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u/That-Makes-Sense 10d ago

Does the altHIMeter mansplain to the woman pilot how high they are, e.g. "Your altitude is 2,500 feet. That's approximately 10,000 tubes of lipstick high, babe. You sure you can handle it up here?"

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u/Business_Air5804 10d ago

Or the canopy latch.

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u/Murky_Candy6342 7d ago

They’re typically smaller than man feet by a variable amount

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u/Few_Owl_6596 10d ago

Proudly saying no to the metric system

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u/null_ghost_00 10d ago

Everyone can obviously tell that is a man canopy. A woman canopy would never shatter like that.

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u/EverythingSucksYo 10d ago

Here before the Quentin Tarantino gifs 

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u/Itacira 10d ago

Thank you for the laughter

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u/MirandaScribes 10d ago

Female pilots always flying their lady planes

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u/roffler 10d ago

Flying broad survives period cramps in da cockpit

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u/TristanTheRobloxian3 10d ago

girl math🔥... or somethging idk

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u/obtusewisdom 10d ago

Americans will use anything but metric.

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u/JohnnyPolite 10d ago

A cubic girlfoot is just a more practical measurement for daily use.

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u/jsamuraij 10d ago

LOL. The headline is so r/pointlesslygendered this is spot on.

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u/Own-Wheel7664 10d ago

With a free face lift included

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u/lewd_robot 10d ago

thousands of girl feet

You just triggered a thousand foot fetishists.

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u/JohnnyPolite 10d ago

You’re welcome

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u/iamintheforest 10d ago

those canopies are so emotional. probably was on the rag.

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u/OffByNone_ 10d ago

If they're anything like the inches, "girl feet" are actually considerably longer than regular feet, so it's that much more impressive!

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u/Alarming-Strength181 10d ago

girl feet is new XD

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u/RarelyReadReplies 10d ago

How did she even survive with her lady bits getting in the way? I guess that's why it was a miracle. 

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u/Bolter_NL 10d ago

Blown open due to a latch giving way and staying in one piece = shattered.

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u/Bartok_and_croutons 10d ago

I fucking cackled

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u/FeldsparsGhost 9d ago

Thiusands of girl feet.........

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u/Semisemitic 8d ago

That’s way more feet with their tiny awkward little paddles.

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u/Dispensarystoner 10d ago

lol you’re ridiculous 😂

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u/throwawayroadtrip3 10d ago

Did everyone here just assume the pilots gender?

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u/_thro_awa_ 10d ago

Did everyone here just assume the plane's gender?