Tattoes

[The Ruptured Duck]

Today I cut my head open on a Lear 35.  It was pretty cool, I was bleeding down the side of my head and I looked pretty tough, untill my supervisor yelled this at me "Damnit!  Don't bleed on the plane!"

Anyone else have some "battle wounds" from aviation?

[OTTOL]

Nose gear door or engine pylon trailing edge?

[beaky]

Got myself real good on the trailing edge of a Cessna flap once. Left that unique imprint and everything. I didn't look tough- I just looked like a dolt.
Now I do my entire preflight hunched over like Quasimodo, just in case.
but just last weekend, somewhere between preflight and refueling the plane, I managed to scrape my finger pretty well. Probably did it "dipping" the tank with my finger (with a Cessna, if you don't touch fuel, assume there is none, even if you can see it...).

[TacitBlue]

I banged my shin pretty hard against the step on the main gear strut of a 172 last weekend. Left a nasty bruise.

[Ben_M_K]

I jumped out of a 172 once and that hurt my head pretty badly...

[SilverFox441]

I've banged, bashed or burned just about every part of me that could come in contact with a plane...just an occupational hazard.

[Fozzer]

I jumped out of a 172 once and that hurt my head pretty badly...

...at 10.000 feet AGL...?

LOL...!

Paul... ...!

[Ben_M_K]

...at 10.000 feet AGL...?

At 0 feet AGL...lol...I was getting out and forgot there was a wing above me head. *Bang*
*Ouch*

[Jared]

Got myself real good on the trailing edge of a Cessna flap once. Left that unique imprint and everything. I didn't look tough- I just looked like a dolt.
Now I do my entire preflight hunched over like Quasimodo, just in case.
but just last weekend, somewhere between preflight and refueling the plane, I managed to scrape my finger pretty well. Probably did it "dipping" the tank with my finger (with a Cessna, if you don't touch fuel, assume there is none, even if you can see it...).

Interesting...I bet it burned pretty bad too!

[Rocket_Bird]

Ive hit my head on the edge nose gear door of a 737-700 (and I did that more than once mind you).

[Hagar]

Bruised the back of my hand once when turning over a prop. Turned out the mag earth lead was broken. Good job it was a wooden prop & the fuel was switched off or I might have lost the hand. I also picked up a Tiger by the tail once. This was a common method of moving Tiger Moths which I did every day. On this occasion a split pin was sticking out of the strut attachment & went straight through the palm of my hand. Get out of that one.
This painful experience gave me my lifelong obsession with tucking the tail ends of split pins (& locking wire) in safely. I hope this saved others suffering a similar if not worse fate.

[Tweek]

I can't say I have, but my dad managed to walk into the engine of a Super Guppy. Had a nice black cut from the oil  ::)

[FLYING_TRUCKER]

Well I have been bruised and banged around a lot in the old Canso's (Catalina's or PBY's for our American friends and just another bloody American aeroplane for our British friends LOL)

During the summer months we flew the pig boat "Canso" into the fiords on Hudson Bay to deliver fuel/stove oil and dry goods as the barge might only get part way down prior to freeze up.

[beaky]

Interesting...I bet it burned pretty bad too!

Nah... it's just gasoline. Albeit with a bit of lead in it... got to get myself a calibrated "dipstick" for the 172... the school had some, but people keep dropping them into the tank. D'oh!!
Wait- you mean the fuel getting into the cut? No, I guess it happened as I withdrew my finger. And the tanks were low, anyway, so I didn't even get my fingertip wet.

[beaky]

Bruised the back of my hand once when turning over a prop. Turned out the mag earth lead was broken. Good job it was a wooden prop & the fuel was switched off or I might have lost the hand. I also picked up a Tiger by the tail once. This was a common method of moving Tiger Moths which I did every day. On this occasion a split pin was sticking out of the strut attachment & went straight through the palm of my hand. Get out of that one.
This painful experience gave me my lifelong obsession with tucking the tail ends of split pins (& locking wire) in safely. I hope this saved others suffering a similar if not worse fate.

Cringe!!! Hell yes, you were lucky there, Doug.  And a sympathetic "ouch!" about your wire story... in my current line of work, I often manage to get a strand of stiff audio cable up under my fingernail, deeply... that'll throb all day.
Now, back ewhen I was a full-time carpenter... LOL. Let's just say it's astounding that I still have 10 fingers...