Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 19, 2024

Two times? Convention requires the word be repeated three times in a row (Wikipedia so it must be true).

That’s what happens when you fly with your eyes closed. Good thing that Woodstock was wearing a helmet.

Still mid-April, Snoopster.

Blackhawk 1 down!

Flying too low to the ground.

PAN PAN, PAN PAN, PAN PAN.

That’s 12 days away.

This classic comic strip was prematurely published ahead of its time!

This is only the middle of April!

Where was Woodstock even going?

Don Martin’s sound effect for a helicopter is priceless: dub dub dub dub dub

Her name is Lucy, you dumb dog!

Ropes in the air should have red warning lights where low flying aircraft may be present.

Even without a jump rope, flying near Lucy can be dangerous.

This is why you don’t close your eyes when flying.

Be lucky it could have waited to run on May 1, 2024.

The Beagle has crashed.

No…It’ still April!

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.

Forget telephone lines, watch out for jump ropes!

I always thought Lucy needed a broom to get off the ground!

Eeeaaaaarrrrs Snoopy!

One flew into the “Cuckoo’s Nest” .

Helicopter? This thing operates more like a hovercraft.

Low flying chopper pilots should always watch for wires

FOD + beagle chopper = bad

MAY DAY , MAY DAY

was called before the ship ran into the Key’s bridge in Baltimore and saved many lives.

This is great art. Simple lines and curves creating all this movement.

Sheesh, everyone knows you don’t jump rope in a whirlybeagle flight path.

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.

This is really cool, I didn’t remember that they brought back Snoopy the Helicopter. What a strange imagination Mr Sparky! I love it !

Bears repeating: Altitude is Everything!!

I believe the the Snoopy “CHOPPER” …got Chopped …… ;)

Lucy’s fault. She should have posted warning beacons.

Snoopy and Woodstock hope you are both alright

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…