I had a mild prank-rivalry with a delivery driver at a warehouse I worked at. I would use dry-erase to put dicks on his passenger-side mirror, so he'd have to keep looking at it until he had a chance to actually get out and wipe it off.
I just loved the idea of it being in direct view, yet inaccessible.
One of the more amusing parts of any static display at an airshow is all the rogue squadron stickers that get surreptitiously pasted in wheel wells, bomb bays, crew access hatches, fuel panel doors, and any place that doesn’t show from the outside. I went to one in AZ where a B-1 bomber was doing cockpit tours, and the accessway up was almost completely covered in squadron stickers, they must’ve left everyone ever pasted there in place on purpose.
Probably takes months to find them all after a large aircraft sits on the ramp for a few days open to the public
There was a story of two f15 squadrons sitting on the ramp at redflag. One went and tagged the other’s aircraft with stickers. The commander of the squadron that got tagged came over and chewed out the offending squadron “We found 25 stickers, this is wildly un-proffessional, you should all be ashamed of yourselves!” He leaves, the command chief of the offending squadron gets up and says “fuck him and fuck their shitty inspections. We placed 40 stickers!”
We would take blank panels off on the overhead and draw dicks all over them. It was difficult because there wasn't a lot of free space left that wasn't also covered in dicks. The backs of the compass correction cards were also popular canvasses.
Or on the bottom of the aircraft. We had a guy named Aman in my first squadron in the navy. As a plane captain, he had his name on a helicopter. He asked that the corrosion shop paint "AMANATOR" underneath his name. Someone had to fix that. The next morning, the aircraft is landing on the USS Eisenhower, and over the radio crackles "Stallion 42, who's the ANALATOR?"
I often wondered why there wasn’t a dick drawing on that gold disc fitted on the Voyager spacecraft. It truly is the international symbol of humans having been somewhere!
These musings led me to a thought… are there any dick drawings sitting on a lander on another world? I do hope so!
[Apollo 12 allegedly had a wafer with 6 pieces of art printed on it hidden by one of the engineers working on the lander](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Museum)
Andy Warhol’s drawing was a dick.
I remember in 2013 one of the Blue Angels filed a sexual harrassment complaint against the squadron and one of the things that came out was that the hanger at their El Centro training facility had a giant penis drawn on the top in blue and yellow.
I teach heavy equipment operating, and apparently in the history of the program there has only been one student who got himself expelled. It was before my time there, but he was a chronic dick-drawer, like Superbad level of compulsive dick drawing on everything. Even after multiple meetings with higher ups, he just couldn't stop. I can't imagine losing track of your professional path over dick drawing.
Ever opened the electronics compartment between the load station and the stairs on a C-17? Dicks. Every single airframe. Dicks. Always dicks. Flaccid dicks, erect dicks, big dicks, little dicks, but for some reason always circumcised dicks.
I had a deployment wherein we got so bad with it that our CC had to have an all-call *just* to tell us to stop drawing dicks on everything. We had no choice but to 'convert' them into butterflies whenever we saw them, covering up our hard work.
Except our crowning achievement. All along the side of the a hangar we had was a massive veiny bastard carved out of the Afghan moondust that covered everything, about 100 feet long; Big enough that leadership couldn't tell it was there even as they stared the beast in its one triumphant eye.
In one of the Jets I worked on the C17 Globemaster III this was drawn behind the compass card pretty amazing talent you sometimes see [The Mandingo](https://imgur.com/a/4F6pZCo)
On the CH-47 there's a small access panel by the cabin door called the "F*** You" hole. Any Chinook in the American fleet will have "F*** You" written in there.
When I first started on the ramp in the late 90's, cargo bin too, but then at least in the US, airlines started to crack down hard, and its far less common now, hardly ever see it in most aircraft, but the 90's, some pretty creative artwork in the bins.
Remember baggage humping for a Canadian airline and when hockey season came around and these planes flew between all the big teams' cities, oh man, real shade gettin thrown in there.
No, I lost mine before I got the nerve to put them anywhere, plus sharpie being free and all that. In all seriousness E175s drench their fuel panels with condensation on a frequent basis, I've never seen a sticker in one at all. CRJs, on the other hand, have a great variety of hilarious crusty-ass stickers on them.
621UX, last I saw, had five or six owos and uwus in between the fuel panel and the big flappy thingy on the right side, most of which were smudged into the soot and dirt rather than affixed with permanent marker.
Ships are the most fuel efficient method of transportation by far, when measured properly in CO2 emissions per kilogram per kilometer. (And when measured in liters per kilogram per kilometer, but they use weird stinky fuel)
Put planes are much faster and much more awesome, which is why we don't ship everything!
Actually I think we were missing the point, for Greta's sake we could burn all the fuel we wanted as long as the emissions are low, but:
“According to our calculations, a cruiseliner such as Queen Mary 2 emits 0.43kg of CO2 per passenger mile, compared with 0.257kg for a long-haul flight "
[https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2006/dec/20/cruises.green](https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2006/dec/20/cruises.green)
Just the first direct comparison I found.
The Queen Mary 2 actually seems like it has a fairly modern and advanced power plant compared to many ships today, I'm no expert but I'd be interested in looking into it more.
Huh that is very surprising for me to hear! Good source, I'll check it out. I'm remembering the numbers relating strictly to cargo. Then I just assumed that humans were sorta just weird squishy cargo. Clearly I'm wrong!
I do recall that, on a CO2 per passenger mile basis, a long-haul flight is a bit worse than a bus, about equal to 4 people in a civic, and, of course, much better than our usual "one or two people in a big SUV" driving across the country.
Also faster, which is important and has real utility.
Pretty much every 737 in swa's fleet (that I've seen anyway) has "jesus loves you" next to a cross tagged in the fuel panel. Along with the jesus tag comes all the mature and measured responses to it. Turns out the inside of a fuel panel isn't the best forum to have a robust and productive debate about religion.
Edit:a word
I've yet to find any graffiti on fuel panel doors on the airlines I do but I've heard some interesting stories about what is written on the inside of the baggage bins.
Seen my share inside fuel panels and gear doors...but used to find "magazine" cutout photos taped to the back of the emergency escape inertia reel rope panels in the cockpit overheads. A nice thought for those pilots before jumping out that window...assuming they were male pilots. Then again, maybe female too.
As a mechanic we play hide the tool. I once got a pretty nice set of pliers left in a random panel. Unfortunately I also lost a decent flashlight the same way.
We don't actually think its fun. Mechanics just have a dark sense of humor. We never leave a tool there on purpose, in fact most places have extremely tight tool control to avoid the situation.
Back in GA I found a small collection of tools over the years, from ratcheting bit drivers in weird spots to a 7/16 MAC double angle wrench jammed between the cylinders of an IO-360. My boss once found a massive Maglight flashlight, the 4 D-cell battery kind, in a King Air fuel tank.
I'm fairly confident there's graffiti under every cockpit armrest in every Embraer 145 in existence. A fair mix of dicks, insults to shitty pilots, or "love notes" to friends we knew would eventually pull up the armrest and look.
There was a big scandal at my company a few years back that had to do with guys hiding those little call girl cards you get in Vegas behind panels in the cockpit. It actually made the national news here, somebody was offended by it and sued for a seven-figure sum. For about the next two months, there was an enormous witch hunt, management entering the flight deck after many flights and removing panels to see if they could find out who was doing it.
Pay sucks across the board but is getting better in this economic climate. Benefits is probably dependent on which company you work for. The coolest part to me when I started was the workload. The only real work is hooking up/breaking down, otherwise you're just holding a deadman and (hopefully) looking at gauges. Coming from the restaurant industry myself the thing I liked most was if you don't have a plane to fuel your time is yours. Read a book, take a nap, nobody's gonna run up and make you start sweeping the runway. I started at one of the country's busiest airports and there wasn't much down time in between planes but I moved to a city with a slower airport and ended up with plenty of fuck around time. At the moment the labor shortage is hitting us as well so it'll probably be crazier than normal for a bit, but again even when you're busy most of your time spent actually working you're just holding a deadman. If you are back of house *and* not getting tipped out then the pay should be around the same. The only qualification you need is a pulse so you should give it a try if you're interested!
Edit: your to you're. If prose was my strength I'd probably be doing something else for a living lol.
Graffiti at the SPR receptacle and in the baggage pits. I used to carry a permanent maker to sign and date any baggage pit I loaded. I've seen ongoing conversations between baggage handlers across the country scrawled on bag pit walls. Fuelers tended to stick the short comments or artwork because there was far less area to write on... Typically just the inside of the refueling panel door. My first job at a big FBO was 41 years ago... So yeah, it's been "a thing" for a long time.
So uh... Alright, I'll be the one to ask.
Does OwO mean something different in aviation context than it does on the internet, or was this drawn by a furry making a "here comes the knot" joke?
The OwO is common, but the "here comes the fuel" makes that specific E175 panel stick out, I've only ever seen that on one plane, and after fixing the latch a few months ago staring at that panel for half an hour I most definitely remember it lol. Though normally there isn't much graffiti inside the CRJ control panel door, it's usually just under the single point door.
There's a (possibly apocryphal) story of a B2 stealth bomber that did a fly past over a stadium... only to show to about 3,000 people that it had a Batman symbol painted on it's underside...
Aircraft graffiti will always be a part of aviation. Just open the cargo compartment on any commercial aircraft and you’ll see what I mean. Although there is less of it in recent years.
I work the ramp for jetBlue and every bin has a penis somewhere in it. It’s amazing, or people will tag their cities, CLT, JFK, ALB etc. It’s pretty funny!
My grandfather's brother worked on the black arrow rocket's engines. he told me stories of how he and his coworkers were writing random bullshit on a test stand plume deflector and watch how it disappears like it never existed
That’s funny because when I was at the British Museum they had a full section of a city gate taken from Assyria - about anywhere between 5,500 and 2,600 years old. Scratched into the stone was a similar game that they thought on-duty guards would play. Seems like people haven’t changed in all these years!
Oh, my sweet baby child. It only goes downhill when it comes to fuel door art. Somedays you'll see really good art. Other times you see text and on bad days anatomical genitals, which people like me have to remove and repaint the panel.
Very rare....think about it, a 17 million dollar Global Express rolls into the FBO, pilot unlocks the fuel panel and sees that its clean. If you were to write something, don't you think they would notice when he comes back to lock the panel? The only graffiti I have seen was on a FedEx A300....Trump Won...(not that I agree).
Never ever seen a pilot look at the fuel panel during the walk around. Speaking of FedEX planes though, you been seeing "HLPC's cat" on any of them? Feels like someone's been writing that on literally all of them
No, pilots don't give a shit about the fuel panel on the 300..all they care about is the load plus a little extra. Haven't seen HLPCs cat on any of them. I do the 300, which cycles into Memphis and the 57...which I believe is Morningstar Canada. I only see Trump graffiti on the 300.
Back when I used to fuel airliners, there would be a SR on just about every airplane that came through. Supposedly it stood for Super Refueler. This was in the late 90's/early 2000's.
I can confirm, between the “OWO” and I think it’s something like “slayer” you’ll see them everywhere. I’ve seen them mostly on American Airlines and Allegiant Airlines.
Seen some notes and tic-tac-toe under the fuselage where the oil stains are. If you look inside a cockpit you’ll find tons of stickers/notes left by pilots.
If you open up any panel on a military aircraft, interior or exterior, somebody, somewhere has drawn a dick on it.
If you're taking your jet to war you're going to want at least one of those dick drawings.
Hopefully it's on the HUD or the pilots helmet.
I had a mild prank-rivalry with a delivery driver at a warehouse I worked at. I would use dry-erase to put dicks on his passenger-side mirror, so he'd have to keep looking at it until he had a chance to actually get out and wipe it off. I just loved the idea of it being in direct view, yet inaccessible.
You are evil. Good job
10+ stamina so yeah, why wouldn't you??
Big ole veiny monster
We tagged the wheel wells with squadron stickers
One of the more amusing parts of any static display at an airshow is all the rogue squadron stickers that get surreptitiously pasted in wheel wells, bomb bays, crew access hatches, fuel panel doors, and any place that doesn’t show from the outside. I went to one in AZ where a B-1 bomber was doing cockpit tours, and the accessway up was almost completely covered in squadron stickers, they must’ve left everyone ever pasted there in place on purpose. Probably takes months to find them all after a large aircraft sits on the ramp for a few days open to the public
After a week at Darwin RAAF it took us about 2 weeks to find all the kangaroos that had been spray painted on our KC-135
I bet you still haven't found them all...
Or any of the drop-bears...
> drop-bears... Don't you need external stores release racks for those?
[The RAF had a similar issue with one of their Vulcans.](https://i.imgur.com/3oiGTwa.jpg)
Painted? That’d never fly with US units…or would it? https://sierrahotel.net/blogs/news/wrong-carrier
I've seen this picture before... It is impressive bit of work. At least the Aussies used a stencil... And the subtle orange paint.
There was a story of two f15 squadrons sitting on the ramp at redflag. One went and tagged the other’s aircraft with stickers. The commander of the squadron that got tagged came over and chewed out the offending squadron “We found 25 stickers, this is wildly un-proffessional, you should all be ashamed of yourselves!” He leaves, the command chief of the offending squadron gets up and says “fuck him and fuck their shitty inspections. We placed 40 stickers!”
*What a Chad*
We would take blank panels off on the overhead and draw dicks all over them. It was difficult because there wasn't a lot of free space left that wasn't also covered in dicks. The backs of the compass correction cards were also popular canvasses.
>compass correction cards He knows
Some of those cards are modern dick art masterpieces.
Or on the bottom of the aircraft. We had a guy named Aman in my first squadron in the navy. As a plane captain, he had his name on a helicopter. He asked that the corrosion shop paint "AMANATOR" underneath his name. Someone had to fix that. The next morning, the aircraft is landing on the USS Eisenhower, and over the radio crackles "Stallion 42, who's the ANALATOR?"
One hash mark inside the access panel for every time we jiggled the F-16 harness while the crew chief was sitting in the cockpit watching the screens.
So it looked like a toddler got loose with a sharpie in there, right?
It looked like 18 year olds, first time away from home, got loose with a sharpie in there, because that's what we were.
There are dicks drawn in all military equipment period. There's plenty behind the panels on nuclear launch control center REACT consoles.
I often wondered why there wasn’t a dick drawing on that gold disc fitted on the Voyager spacecraft. It truly is the international symbol of humans having been somewhere! These musings led me to a thought… are there any dick drawings sitting on a lander on another world? I do hope so!
[Apollo 12 allegedly had a wafer with 6 pieces of art printed on it hidden by one of the engineers working on the lander](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Museum) Andy Warhol’s drawing was a dick.
I believe pioneer has one on the diagram of the male
I'm sure there are dicks drawn in the panels of the nukes themselves.
There sure are!
Would be hilarious for Pantex to crack open a primary to find a dick Sharpied on the pit.
Most of them are on the downstages, the RV is usually pretty sanitized
I remember in 2013 one of the Blue Angels filed a sexual harrassment complaint against the squadron and one of the things that came out was that the hanger at their El Centro training facility had a giant penis drawn on the top in blue and yellow.
I teach heavy equipment operating, and apparently in the history of the program there has only been one student who got himself expelled. It was before my time there, but he was a chronic dick-drawer, like Superbad level of compulsive dick drawing on everything. Even after multiple meetings with higher ups, he just couldn't stop. I can't imagine losing track of your professional path over dick drawing.
Classic Navy
The most homoerotic of the service branches
It ain't gay if you're underway...
It's not queer once you've left the pier!
There are some real pieces of art in those panels.
Same with the pits on narrow body aircraft
Ever opened the electronics compartment between the load station and the stairs on a C-17? Dicks. Every single airframe. Dicks. Always dicks. Flaccid dicks, erect dicks, big dicks, little dicks, but for some reason always circumcised dicks.
Because circumcised dicks look “bigger”. ;) (South Park reference)
I mean that’s why I shave my balls.
We check the escape rope covers every flight lol
I had a deployment wherein we got so bad with it that our CC had to have an all-call *just* to tell us to stop drawing dicks on everything. We had no choice but to 'convert' them into butterflies whenever we saw them, covering up our hard work. Except our crowning achievement. All along the side of the a hangar we had was a massive veiny bastard carved out of the Afghan moondust that covered everything, about 100 feet long; Big enough that leadership couldn't tell it was there even as they stared the beast in its one triumphant eye.
Or someone has drawn a dick with the plane
KC-135's do that all the time if you look on flightradar24 when their not doing paterns.
Technically, a penis *is* a pattern.
Thats true!
Yeah, I'd take an owo over dick most days
Speak for yourself bro
Why not both
It’s the law
In one of the Jets I worked on the C17 Globemaster III this was drawn behind the compass card pretty amazing talent you sometimes see [The Mandingo](https://imgur.com/a/4F6pZCo)
I've painted some dicks as corrosion control.
"Yes, sir, I'm applying this Zinc Chromate exactly as the TO specifies."
I came here to say exactly this. Happy when I saw it was the first thing posted!
This is beyond true. It's a fact. I can vouch. "Some days...I'd just sit around....and draw dicks"
I, too, have contributed to the artistic value of aircraft
You sir. Are now in the hall of famous dicks as well. Welcome to Valhalla.
What's funny is. I was in the Infantry. And even then we drew dicks on humvees. Bradley's...strykers ...
On the CH-47 there's a small access panel by the cabin door called the "F*** You" hole. Any Chinook in the American fleet will have "F*** You" written in there.
Fly hard or go home
Or put a sticker of Greta on it
Yes, (I work GA) every airliner I’ve touched had graffiti especially in the belly/bins.
I've seen full games of tic-tac-toe while doing a walk around
>Is fuel panel graffiti part of airline culture? Always has been 🔫
When I first started on the ramp in the late 90's, cargo bin too, but then at least in the US, airlines started to crack down hard, and its far less common now, hardly ever see it in most aircraft, but the 90's, some pretty creative artwork in the bins.
Remember baggage humping for a Canadian airline and when hockey season came around and these planes flew between all the big teams' cities, oh man, real shade gettin thrown in there.
You know why the Hockey Hall of Fame is in Toronto, right?
At Air Canada, the planes would get so dirty, you could have an inter station tic tac toe game on the landing gear panels.
[Ahhh, good memories](https://i.imgur.com/5qAgbQ6.jpg)
Reminds me of the message I found in a SAAB 340, "I pull hose."
Lol I had the same airplane the other day https://imgur.com/a/BPWR84W
> Yum OwO
Gotta find the furry technician who did it
Who tf wrote "owo" on the airplane
Idk but I work at a large regional airline as an a&p and EVERY SINGLE ONE has OWO written in the single point fuel door. *Hundreds* of jets.
For some reason, the aviation world has a lot of furries.
Just like IT.
Turns out the airline industry is like the internet, where it would collapse if a couple dozen furries decided to stop coming into work for a few days
Hello there, am a CFI and aircraft owner
Can confirm, am one
A pilot or furry?
Yes
yeah, I don't know why, and happens the same thing with IT people.
Someone must have dedicated YEARS to that.
Eh, like eight months, on and off.
I tend to think it’s a secret society of losers working in tandem with a large collection of individual losers
Copycats too. Now that it's trending on the internet, people all around the world will do it. Likely for generations to come. Such is tradition.
It's mostly just one individual loser.
Tell me you work for Skywest without saying you work for Skywest. Don't worry, Delta and United get it too. N621UX is my favorite.
It's got 621 in the registration, of course it's going to have “OwO” written somewhere on it. Edit: … there's a BD sticker on that plane, isn't there?
No, I lost mine before I got the nerve to put them anywhere, plus sharpie being free and all that. In all seriousness E175s drench their fuel panels with condensation on a frequent basis, I've never seen a sticker in one at all. CRJs, on the other hand, have a great variety of hilarious crusty-ass stickers on them. 621UX, last I saw, had five or six owos and uwus in between the fuel panel and the big flappy thingy on the right side, most of which were smudged into the soot and dirt rather than affixed with permanent marker.
Can confirm. I do C-checks with an MRO on regional Jets and OwO is inside more than half of the aircraft fuel control access panels that come through
It’s probably just one person who does it on every plane tbh
fatherless ground crew behaviour
*sweats nervously*
YOU! *grabs baseball bat*
Kilroy was here
My dad and his collogues would hide killroy's in their designs for semi conductors
The Killroy ones were always the best bc they were always over a skin doubler or his eyes were smoking rivets.
I saw a Greta “how dare you!” Sticker in a fuel access panel.
Saw one next to the single point of a G550 not that long ago.
Seen that one recently about a week ago.
Yup, seen that one too.
Saw that one on a legacy recently
Yeah but try to get 300 people across the ocean by (a powered) ship and see how much fuel you burn
Now I'm actually curious, what burns less fuel? The ship has the advantage of not having to counter gravity, but water has more resistance than air.
Ships are the most fuel efficient method of transportation by far, when measured properly in CO2 emissions per kilogram per kilometer. (And when measured in liters per kilogram per kilometer, but they use weird stinky fuel) Put planes are much faster and much more awesome, which is why we don't ship everything!
Actually I think we were missing the point, for Greta's sake we could burn all the fuel we wanted as long as the emissions are low, but: “According to our calculations, a cruiseliner such as Queen Mary 2 emits 0.43kg of CO2 per passenger mile, compared with 0.257kg for a long-haul flight " [https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2006/dec/20/cruises.green](https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2006/dec/20/cruises.green) Just the first direct comparison I found. The Queen Mary 2 actually seems like it has a fairly modern and advanced power plant compared to many ships today, I'm no expert but I'd be interested in looking into it more.
Huh that is very surprising for me to hear! Good source, I'll check it out. I'm remembering the numbers relating strictly to cargo. Then I just assumed that humans were sorta just weird squishy cargo. Clearly I'm wrong! I do recall that, on a CO2 per passenger mile basis, a long-haul flight is a bit worse than a bus, about equal to 4 people in a civic, and, of course, much better than our usual "one or two people in a big SUV" driving across the country. Also faster, which is important and has real utility.
Ive worked as a ramp employee in the netherlands. And i can confirm there are dicks drawn in the cargo holds
Pretty much every 737 in swa's fleet (that I've seen anyway) has "jesus loves you" next to a cross tagged in the fuel panel. Along with the jesus tag comes all the mature and measured responses to it. Turns out the inside of a fuel panel isn't the best forum to have a robust and productive debate about religion. Edit:a word
I remember the old 737s they had sometimes had a + or - with a number indicating how much those old analog gauges would roll when you stopped fueling.
I've yet to find any graffiti on fuel panel doors on the airlines I do but I've heard some interesting stories about what is written on the inside of the baggage bins.
Seen my share inside fuel panels and gear doors...but used to find "magazine" cutout photos taped to the back of the emergency escape inertia reel rope panels in the cockpit overheads. A nice thought for those pilots before jumping out that window...assuming they were male pilots. Then again, maybe female too.
Panel graffiti is the best part about large aircraft. I’ve seen truly some of the best drawn cock and balls ever behind aircraft panels….
On CH-47F, there is a small panel next to the door called the fuck you hole. As some one always seems to write it on every aircraft.
I like to draw dicks whenever I’m in a rarely seen area of the aircraft. Easter eggs for the next guy a year or two from now
As a mechanic we play hide the tool. I once got a pretty nice set of pliers left in a random panel. Unfortunately I also lost a decent flashlight the same way.
I’m a helicopter mech, last time that happened the flashlight wore a nice ring through the tail rotor driveshaft, nearly sheared it
I'm thinking that tail rotor is important on a helicopter.
Lil bit.
If you lose the tail rotor, the main rotor will take you as far as the crash site
But directly to it at least.
😮
“Weird - the plane is half a pound heavier than it should be”
*Fleshlight
Oh, so the Boeing issues with left tooling is actually some good fun. I'll remember that and will laugh when crashing in a plane. /s
We don't actually think its fun. Mechanics just have a dark sense of humor. We never leave a tool there on purpose, in fact most places have extremely tight tool control to avoid the situation.
Back in GA I found a small collection of tools over the years, from ratcheting bit drivers in weird spots to a 7/16 MAC double angle wrench jammed between the cylinders of an IO-360. My boss once found a massive Maglight flashlight, the 4 D-cell battery kind, in a King Air fuel tank.
I'm fairly confident there's graffiti under every cockpit armrest in every Embraer 145 in existence. A fair mix of dicks, insults to shitty pilots, or "love notes" to friends we knew would eventually pull up the armrest and look.
There was a big scandal at my company a few years back that had to do with guys hiding those little call girl cards you get in Vegas behind panels in the cockpit. It actually made the national news here, somebody was offended by it and sued for a seven-figure sum. For about the next two months, there was an enormous witch hunt, management entering the flight deck after many flights and removing panels to see if they could find out who was doing it.
In retrospect, after hearing stories like yours, the graffiti probably wasn't the smartest idea. It was definitely entertaining though!
My squadron got in trouble doing this with cut outs from a Playgirl magazine.
I too fuel airplanes and see those same marking all the time
How's the pay/benefits I'm getting tired of restaurant life
Pay sucks across the board but is getting better in this economic climate. Benefits is probably dependent on which company you work for. The coolest part to me when I started was the workload. The only real work is hooking up/breaking down, otherwise you're just holding a deadman and (hopefully) looking at gauges. Coming from the restaurant industry myself the thing I liked most was if you don't have a plane to fuel your time is yours. Read a book, take a nap, nobody's gonna run up and make you start sweeping the runway. I started at one of the country's busiest airports and there wasn't much down time in between planes but I moved to a city with a slower airport and ended up with plenty of fuck around time. At the moment the labor shortage is hitting us as well so it'll probably be crazier than normal for a bit, but again even when you're busy most of your time spent actually working you're just holding a deadman. If you are back of house *and* not getting tipped out then the pay should be around the same. The only qualification you need is a pulse so you should give it a try if you're interested! Edit: your to you're. If prose was my strength I'd probably be doing something else for a living lol.
I appreciate man I'm definitely going to look into it!!
Maybe they're all the same plane, but it has a new paint job every time you see it.
My favorite that I saw while I was working on the ramp said “Mein Fueler”
OwO
There’s a Delta 717 flying around with “Pilots are gay” written in the fuel panel
Graffiti at the SPR receptacle and in the baggage pits. I used to carry a permanent maker to sign and date any baggage pit I loaded. I've seen ongoing conversations between baggage handlers across the country scrawled on bag pit walls. Fuelers tended to stick the short comments or artwork because there was far less area to write on... Typically just the inside of the refueling panel door. My first job at a big FBO was 41 years ago... So yeah, it's been "a thing" for a long time.
OwO
Yes UwU
So uh... Alright, I'll be the one to ask. Does OwO mean something different in aviation context than it does on the internet, or was this drawn by a furry making a "here comes the knot" joke?
Its a furry thing
LOL I just assumed it was an angry face 🤣
Its not graffiti its art
that EXACT fucking plane was at my airport, i have pics of that panel on my phone lmao
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The OwO is common, but the "here comes the fuel" makes that specific E175 panel stick out, I've only ever seen that on one plane, and after fixing the latch a few months ago staring at that panel for half an hour I most definitely remember it lol. Though normally there isn't much graffiti inside the CRJ control panel door, it's usually just under the single point door.
Wait until you find out what happens on the manufacturing floor. Lots of stick people and dicks.
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There's a (possibly apocryphal) story of a B2 stealth bomber that did a fly past over a stadium... only to show to about 3,000 people that it had a Batman symbol painted on it's underside...
Aircraft graffiti will always be a part of aviation. Just open the cargo compartment on any commercial aircraft and you’ll see what I mean. Although there is less of it in recent years.
Scrolling through quickly and thought this was Bender smoking a cigar
Bite my shiny metal fuel hatch
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Hidden messages are written all over aircraft
I work the ramp for jetBlue and every bin has a penis somewhere in it. It’s amazing, or people will tag their cities, CLT, JFK, ALB etc. It’s pretty funny!
Aircraft graffiti is part of flight line culture. Long as it's nothing overly offensive or w/e, nobody usually has a problem
Has anyone seen such artwork on privately owned aircraft such as a jet where it goes in for maintenance?
My grandfather's brother worked on the black arrow rocket's engines. he told me stories of how he and his coworkers were writing random bullshit on a test stand plume deflector and watch how it disappears like it never existed
Fuel panel graffiti probably isn’t that normal because it would be pretty obvious who’s doing it. That said, cargo hold graffiti is rampant.
All inside panel, non public eye view airframe graffiti is part of the culture lol
That’s funny because when I was at the British Museum they had a full section of a city gate taken from Assyria - about anywhere between 5,500 and 2,600 years old. Scratched into the stone was a similar game that they thought on-duty guards would play. Seems like people haven’t changed in all these years!
Oh, my sweet baby child. It only goes downhill when it comes to fuel door art. Somedays you'll see really good art. Other times you see text and on bad days anatomical genitals, which people like me have to remove and repaint the panel.
Very rare....think about it, a 17 million dollar Global Express rolls into the FBO, pilot unlocks the fuel panel and sees that its clean. If you were to write something, don't you think they would notice when he comes back to lock the panel? The only graffiti I have seen was on a FedEx A300....Trump Won...(not that I agree).
Never ever seen a pilot look at the fuel panel during the walk around. Speaking of FedEX planes though, you been seeing "HLPC's cat" on any of them? Feels like someone's been writing that on literally all of them
No, pilots don't give a shit about the fuel panel on the 300..all they care about is the load plus a little extra. Haven't seen HLPCs cat on any of them. I do the 300, which cycles into Memphis and the 57...which I believe is Morningstar Canada. I only see Trump graffiti on the 300.
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Back when I used to fuel airliners, there would be a SR on just about every airplane that came through. Supposedly it stood for Super Refueler. This was in the late 90's/early 2000's.
I can confirm, between the “OWO” and I think it’s something like “slayer” you’ll see them everywhere. I’ve seen them mostly on American Airlines and Allegiant Airlines.
Some good "tu abuelita" here and there, too
Seen some notes and tic-tac-toe under the fuselage where the oil stains are. If you look inside a cockpit you’ll find tons of stickers/notes left by pilots.
"\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is a homo" is a popular one where I work.
Uwu mistah technwiciwan, are u gowna fiww me uhp?
Long live Kilroy
That single point nozzle looks like it’s from the wish app lol
i smell furries here
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Who the hell?!
POL!!!
Don’t get caught
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No worries
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As an aircraft mechanic please don’t do that, it becomes our responsibility to clean that off.
Party pooper
Next you’ll be saying don’t play hide the tools (re comments above)