13th Apr 2012, 12:15
#13101 (permalink )
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Cheltenham
Posts: 111
Ex-ter-min-ate Ex -ter-min-ate
13th Apr 2012, 12:20
#13102 (permalink )
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Atlanta
Age: 44
Posts: 1,011
And if we made the Dalek airborne, it would look like this.
(Bugger, too slow!)
13th Apr 2012, 12:24
#13103 (permalink )
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: One Three Seven, Disco Heaven.
Age: 54
Posts: 475
...Oh the guns. We use those for vertical landings.
13th Apr 2012, 12:30
#13104 (permalink )
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Atlanta
Age: 44
Posts: 1,011
Who would have thought Robbie the Robot had a brother?
13th Apr 2012, 12:58
#13105 (permalink )
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Alba
Posts: 174
The origin of the term "Crab Air" finally revealed
13th Apr 2012, 14:05
#13106 (permalink )
Stargazing
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: West
Posts: 412
Well it's swivel-eyed, the mouth's permanently open, it's ugly enough to give a small child nightmares and it's got a tendency to veer to the left. We call it Harriet Harman.
13th Apr 2012, 14:17
#13107 (permalink )
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Canada
Age: 50
Posts: 1,297
Don't look so surprised; you knew your days were numbered when they cut 'The Magic Roundabout' from the telly.
13th Apr 2012, 16:13
#13108 (permalink )
Avoid imitations
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Wandering in hyperspace and the FIR
Posts: 8,043
Having finally realised that the Puma with a follow me board in the open right hand door being too slow, and the Typhoon being too fast, as far as GA interceptors went, there was only one logical answer......
13th Apr 2012, 20:14
#13109 (permalink )
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Hants
Age: 44
Posts: 364
With the Nimrod cancelled, Shacky couldn't help but smile when he thought they might ask him back.
13th Apr 2012, 21:43
#13110 (permalink )
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Hanging off the end of a bolt
Posts: 5,224
We got the turrets cheap from the Navy, they were originally part of a consignment of cancelled deep sea diving suits, we simply removed the arms and grafted on the guns.
14th Apr 2012, 02:12
#13111 (permalink )
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: cardboard box in't middle of t'road
Posts: 108
Here's Shacky.
14th Apr 2012, 02:20
#13112 (permalink )
Probationary PPRuNer
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Northamptonshire, UK
Age: 50
Posts: 7
Shackleton, why the ernest face?
14th Apr 2012, 11:55
#13113 (permalink )
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Hanging off the end of a bolt
Posts: 5,224
RAF trial airborne iron lung.
Or
"What's the big opening on the front for skip?.... Ohh that, that is where we clip the urinal."
14th Apr 2012, 12:08
#13114 (permalink )
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Destin
Age: 64
Posts: 11,012
"Ere Guv.....ain't this supposed to be on the other end of this thing....after all the only thing we are going to overtake is a NAAFI Queue!"
15th Apr 2012, 08:05
#13115 (permalink )
Evertonian
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Ppruner of the Year Nominee 2005
Age: 47
Posts: 5,819
Apparently, the first inspiration for in-flight refuelling came from a porn movie...
15th Apr 2012, 12:14
#13116 (permalink )
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Destin
Age: 64
Posts: 11,012
Once again....British Aircraft builders defy the "If it looks good...it will fly!" rule.
15th Apr 2012, 13:59
#13117 (permalink )
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: EGOS Field 24
Posts: 765
"So you seriously expect me to remake 'Independence Day' with this?"
16th Apr 2012, 15:29
#13118 (permalink )
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 107
'Mate...are you sure the main planes are fitted the right way round on this one?'
16th Apr 2012, 15:34
#13119 (permalink )
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Atlanta
Age: 44
Posts: 1,011
The MOD were no fools; there had been a "Plan B" all along...
16th Apr 2012, 21:33
#13120 (permalink )
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Anglia
Posts: 1,361
The defeated Shack-Leks were slowly returning to Earth...shouting their Death-Rattle:
"Terminated-Ex!, Terminated-Ex!"
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