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Chicken Wings (comic)
Summary
Chicken Wings is an aviation related comic series that is published as a webcomic as well as a regular comic strip in various aviation magazines around the world. It was created by brothers Michael Strasser and Stefan Strasser in late 2001. Since 2004 a weekly strip is being published regularly on their website.
The comic is especially popular among people who have some relation with or affinity to this particular industry, from pilots over airline personnel to modelers or flight simmers. As the artists try to appeal to this niche market of aviation fans, a few of the jokes are hard to understand or simply not funny for outsiders.
Michael Strasser is a helicopter pilot and flight instructor who lives and works in California. His brother Stefan Strasser is a cartoonist and illustrator who lives in Vienna. Together they combine the background knowledge and artistic skills needed for this project.
Many characters are based on one or more real life persons. E.g. "Captain Ed" is based on the airline captain/author Ed Owen (Your Captain Speaking) and the name "Chuck" was inspired by Chuck Aaron, currently the only helicopter aerobatics pilot in the USA.
Chuck is the pilot of "Roost Air" and features all the stereotypical characteristics that are associated with pilots: He always wears big and expensive sunglasses and a big and expensive watch. He is known and feared by air traffic controllers because of his one-of-a-kind sense of direction and knowledge of radio procedures. Chuck likes to think of himself as a womanizer, or rather a "chickenizer", but usually ends up alone due to his mouth and his inability to think before he speaks (or, as other cases prove, inability to think at all). His reputation has spread far and wide, and when he gets into a particularly absurd situation or exchange on the radio, there will often be the question "Chuck, is that you?"
Julio is the typical aircraft mechanic who can fix everything from a helicopter turbine engine to Sally's coffee machine. He doesn't talk too much and doesn't really like pilots a lot.
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