weddings eh?
My advice would be : keep it simple.
Italian bride's bouquet downs ultralight
An Italian wedding reception ended badly when the bride's bouquet downed an ultralight aircraft, the Corriere della Sera reports. The happy couple had tasked pilot Luciano Nannelli, 61, with dropping the floral display on eager bridesmaids lined up at the do in Montioni Park, Suvereto. However, when passenger Isidoro Pensieri, …
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But did anyone catch it?
I've seen women fight to grab the bouquet, so it would not surprise me to see someone (my girlfriend, for example) vault a hedge and chase down a crashing aircraft in order to make the catch.
Anonymous for obvious reasons.
bouquet not tossed by the bride then?
Tsk. So these bold aviators got tasked with some martial, beg pardon marital weaponeering, and got brought down by their own ordnance? Very poor.
Mind you, if this incident had involved a proper surface-to-air bouquet, I suppose that might have encouraged the Taliban to grow flowers other than poppies.
Hmmmm
Does this mean the two dudes in the microlight will be getting married soon?
Welcome to the 21st Century.
Bah!
Where's the spunk in today's middle aged? Back in the 1960s they would have dragged the bits together under the searing desert sky and fabricated a *new* plane from them, then flown to safety.
Oops
Links on the web (in Italian) say it was an autogiro, and typically they have pusher props. You don't have to be too clever to figure out what's going to happen to anything you throw out of the plane when you've got a pusher prop behind you. Well, I guess you do have to be more clever than these Eyeties.
Still, score one for flight safety in that area, now these muppets are downed for a bit.
WTF?
Considering the RPM on even a light weight propeller and their ability to casually relieve the incautious of their fingers and/or limbs I have to ask what the hell was that bouquet made from?!
Video or it didn't happen
It's a wedding, I'm sure there is a video. Let's see!
BTW
"narrowly missing a hostel packed with fifty young people." — so what? It's an ultralight. Even in Italy it wouldn't do much more harm than crushing a couple windows at best, would it? Unless "packed" means they were all crammed into the same room...
How ironic
dropping things out of planes is how the Italians invented aerial bombardment...
Was this the machine?
NOTE: Keyboard safety alert!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8KsAPoSuPI
Who mentioned Flora?
Wake up in the morning, marry my fioncee
Then my idiot friend crashes his
ooooh, oooh, Ultralite.
Well, it's a margarine...
Mode = Rocky Horror
I really loved the skillful way,
You beat the other girls to the bride's bouquet...
... erm...
It is now imperative that...
...a PlayMobil reconstruction is made available ASAP - I'm having trouble visualising some of the finer details such as whether Optimus Prime was the Matron of Honour.
I remember that one...
@Stevie... Flight of the Phoenix, right?
@lee harvey osmond
Your post is a tour de force. I suggest you provide emergency backup should Lewis Page be incapacitated.
@Andus McCoatover
Very funny. Now then, what is the best way to clean this beverage off of my keyboard cover?
composition of a brides bouquet.
These things are (usually, ´cept in .it, it seems) wielded by a woman in an extraordinarily high stress condition. You do the math.
anyway, reminds me of a friends wedding where the girls rushed forward and one being stopped by her friend who shouted "YOU TOUCH THAT GODDAMN THING AND I`LL CHOP YOUR HANDS OFF!"
Beer, Czech lager please. Less hazzle than a woman.
That explains it!
On BBC World News last night, there was just a ticker saying that a plane crash in Italy had been caused by a bride throwing her bouquet. No mention of a microlight.
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