OK. This is the Peanuts arc that I’ve never accepted, a flying heli-dog. I can accept all the other imaginations like tennis dog, golf dog, even flying ace dog in WWI, but a dog who flies using his ears and is piloted by Woodstock, that’s just too much. I know, I know it’s a comic strip, but still I just can’t go there.
The “mayday” procedure word was conceived as a distress call in the early 1920s by Frederick Stanley Mockford, officer-in-charge of radio at Croydon Airport, England. He had been asked to think of a word that would indicate distress and would easily be understood by all pilots and ground staff in an emergency. Since much of the air traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris, he proposed the term “mayday”, the phonetic equivalent of the French m’aidez (“help me”) or m’aider (a short form of venez m’aider, “come [and] help me”). The term is unrelated to the holiday May Day.
Following tests, the new procedure word was introduced for cross-Channel flights in February 1923. The previous distress call had been the Morse code signal SOS, but this was not considered suitable for voice communication, “[o]wing to the difficulty of distinguishing the letter ‘S’ by telephone”. In 1927, the International Radiotelegraph Convention of Washington adopted the voice call “mayday” as the radiotelephone distress call in addition to the SOS radiotelegraph (Morse code) signal.
When yanking a tight tensile tethering over and over again, overflow with your payload & you close to the spinning bowl can happen the next shake of your wrist… Time your jumps of the rope with keen awareness…
knutdl 28 days ago
Two times? Convention requires the word be repeated three times in a row (Wikipedia so it must be true).
Muttley 28 days ago
That’s what happens when you fly with your eyes closed. Good thing that Woodstock was wearing a helmet.
Izzy Moreno 28 days ago
Still mid-April, Snoopster.
Yakety Sax 28 days ago
Blackhawk 1 down!
rekam Premium Member 28 days ago
Flying too low to the ground.
dlkrueger33 28 days ago
PAN PAN, PAN PAN, PAN PAN.
The Orange Mailman 28 days ago
That’s 12 days away.
dcdete. 28 days ago
This classic comic strip was prematurely published ahead of its time!
This is only the middle of April!
Decepticomic 28 days ago
Where was Woodstock even going?
nancyb creator 28 days ago
Don Martin’s sound effect for a helicopter is priceless: dub dub dub dub dub
SquidGamerGal 28 days ago
Her name is Lucy, you dumb dog!
bbenoit 28 days ago
Ropes in the air should have red warning lights where low flying aircraft may be present.
Doug K 28 days ago
Even without a jump rope, flying near Lucy can be dangerous.
Ellis97 28 days ago
This is why you don’t close your eyes when flying.
Darryl Heine 28 days ago
Be lucky it could have waited to run on May 1, 2024.
Just-me 28 days ago
The Beagle has crashed.
ginkens001 28 days ago
No…It’ still April!
preacherman 28 days ago
OK. This is the Peanuts arc that I’ve never accepted, a flying heli-dog. I can accept all the other imaginations like tennis dog, golf dog, even flying ace dog in WWI, but a dog who flies using his ears and is piloted by Woodstock, that’s just too much. I know, I know it’s a comic strip, but still I just can’t go there.
uniquename 28 days ago
Forget telephone lines, watch out for jump ropes!
Angry Indeed 28 days ago
I always thought Lucy needed a broom to get off the ground!
txq 28 days ago
Eeeaaaaarrrrs Snoopy!
F-Flash 28 days ago
One flew into the “Cuckoo’s Nest” .
sgs351 28 days ago
Helicopter? This thing operates more like a hovercraft.
robert.l.stevens 28 days ago
Low flying chopper pilots should always watch for wires
cemunsey Premium Member 28 days ago
FOD + beagle chopper = bad
jr1234 28 days ago
MAY DAY , MAY DAY
was called before the ship ran into the Key’s bridge in Baltimore and saved many lives.
corvallisclem 28 days ago
This is great art. Simple lines and curves creating all this movement.
pripley 28 days ago
Sheesh, everyone knows you don’t jump rope in a whirlybeagle flight path.
Jonathan K. and the Elusive Dream Girl 28 days ago
Here is the origin of the “mayday” call:
The “mayday” procedure word was conceived as a distress call in the early 1920s by Frederick Stanley Mockford, officer-in-charge of radio at Croydon Airport, England. He had been asked to think of a word that would indicate distress and would easily be understood by all pilots and ground staff in an emergency. Since much of the air traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris, he proposed the term “mayday”, the phonetic equivalent of the French m’aidez (“help me”) or m’aider (a short form of venez m’aider, “come [and] help me”). The term is unrelated to the holiday May Day.
Following tests, the new procedure word was introduced for cross-Channel flights in February 1923. The previous distress call had been the Morse code signal SOS, but this was not considered suitable for voice communication, “[o]wing to the difficulty of distinguishing the letter ‘S’ by telephone”. In 1927, the International Radiotelegraph Convention of Washington adopted the voice call “mayday” as the radiotelephone distress call in addition to the SOS radiotelegraph (Morse code) signal.
From Wikipedia.
lnrokr55 28 days ago
This is really cool, I didn’t remember that they brought back Snoopy the Helicopter. What a strange imagination Mr Sparky! I love it !
markkahler52 28 days ago
Bears repeating: Altitude is Everything!!
bwswolf 28 days ago
I believe the the Snoopy “CHOPPER” …got Chopped …… ;)
eddi-TBH 27 days ago
Lucy’s fault. She should have posted warning beacons.
anncorr339 27 days ago
Snoopy and Woodstock hope you are both alright
Danodanocompycompy Premium Member 27 days ago
When yanking a tight tensile tethering over and over again, overflow with your payload & you close to the spinning bowl can happen the next shake of your wrist… Time your jumps of the rope with keen awareness…