Aviation Humor

On a crowded morning at Honolulu International, where civil traffic shares the runways with the military at Hickham AFB, a USAF C-5 and a United 747-400 called ground control for taxi instructions at the same time. Since they were on opposite ends of the airport, the controller said, "Just start taxiing, and whoever gets to the runway first will take off first.

Sure enough, they arrived on opposite sides of the active runway at the same time, and asked for takeoff instructions. The controller asked them to decide between them who should go first.

The major commanding the C-5 said, "This is the biggest, baddest hauler in the world, and we're full of military cargo!"

The United captain replied, "This is just an itty-bitty 747-400, but we have 400 passengers on board!"

The major called back, "OK. What's your gross?"

The United captain replied, "$210,000 per year. What's yours?"