Midair Repair: Difference between revisions

** By shooting the necessary parts at it from a submarine. [[Rule of Cool|In Missiles]]. [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]

* In ''[[Air Gear]]'', tuner(read: [[Wrench Wench]]) Kururu Sumeragi rebuilds main character Ikki's titular Cool Rollerblades. Rather than being with him when starting the fall, she ''jumps off a building to tackle him as he falls'', and proceeds to dismantle and rebuild the mass of tiny parts.

'''Ikki:''' [[Talking Is a Free Action|Uh... Three seconds... I'd guess]]?<br />

'''Kururu:''' [[Oh Crap|Three seconds]]?! (thinking during two-page spread of her spilling tools from her backpack) [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|In that case... I've got more than enough time!]]<br />

* In the [[World War II]] novel ''Hornet Flight'', the hero has to refuel his plane in mid-air.

* In ''[[Farmer In The Sky]]'', by [[Robert A. Heinlein]], Bill Lermer's father explains why they have an engineer along in space, when the engine is a radioactive torch that can't be shut off in flight.

"I mean that the assistant chief engineer would succeed to the position of chief a few minutes later. Chief engineers are very carefully chosen, Bill, and not just for their technical knowledge." }}

* In the ''[[Virgin New Adventures|Doctor Who Expanded Universe]]'' novel ''The Dying Days'', the Doctor -- five minutes above London, downward bound and accelerating -- builds a parachute out of a helium tank and the contents of his pockets.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* There's a hilarious example of this in ''[[Girl Genius]]'', when Gilgamesh and Agatha are first testing Gilgamesh's [[Flying Machine]] (or rather, as Agatha sourly points out, "[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030623 It's a falling machine. I'm so impressed.]") by starting from Baron Wulfenbach's airship. As they both slip into Spark-mode, their growing excitement about repairing and upgrading the ship in mid-flight almost fatally distracts them from the approaching doom.

'''Gilgamesh:''' What? Oh, ''that''. This wire was loose. }}