2006-11-09 13:14:45 · 6 answers · asked by Michael 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
Not sure if this is right but I read somewhere that the tradition came from when the instructor sat behind the student and did not have radio connection to communicate and would tug on the back of the shirt to give the student direction.
It is definitely a tradition that lives on though, flight school I used to work at had the walls covered with students ripped shirts.
Congrats on your solo!!!!
2006-11-10 00:58:41 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has to do with "tailfeathers", and being "freed of the apron strings". It started about ten years after wright brothers flew their first airplane! When I got my solo, - I didn't question where it came from, -- just showed everybody! That happened about 40 years ago! PS: I once knew a guy that had a pilots liscense signed by Orville Wright!
2006-11-09 21:30:45 · answer #2 · answered by guess78624 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Geuss has I think the right answer. I also heard the instructor would tug on your shirt to communicate with you in the "teens"
being rather persuasive when you do something not safe. When communication went to gosspipe if you did something wrong they would put there end in the windy slipsteam blowing a blast of air in your ears. Congrats.
2006-11-09 22:12:39 · answer #3 · answered by thresher 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
got my license 2 yr. ago, but no one cut my shirt. i have heard of this ritiual, but i thought it was only done by the military forces sort of like cutting your wings. congrats on getting your license
(i hope) .
2006-11-09 21:42:32 · answer #4 · answered by barrbou214 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've heard that the reason hunters cut the backs of their shirts is because when you are in the woods, there may be a lack of toilet paper, so they cut squares out of their shirts.
Maybe the same applies?
2006-11-09 21:24:28 · answer #5 · answered by red.cancer 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Soloed five years ago.
Never had it happen.
Never heard of it.
2006-11-09 22:56:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋