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Those missing four months in Dubya's Air Force records were in fact hush-hush work as the U2 bang seat crash test dummy.
"They need a pilot with no brain at all - Bush, you'll do, though God knows what future career is going to need an idiot who ends up on his ass all the time."
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"Sir you do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in Court, anything you do say may be given in evidence." ... plebeian !
"I like your plan to fool this Gary Powers into coming quietly, Ivan, but I still reckon you should have made the USAF emblem on the Bananaski a bit bigger."
"What happened" ... "Sorry Sir that's classified" ... Where are we" ... "Sorry Sir that's classified" ... "What was I doing" ... "Sorry Sir that's classified" ... "Where are you taking me" ... "Sorry Sir that's classified" ... "What's my name" ... "Sorry Sir that's classified"
"Defecting from Russia, a likely story, I bet you're another bloody Romanian asylum seeker"
Or
"Yeah yeah a U2, and I suppose that lump in your suit is your Bono"
Or
"I might of blown a hole in my ship when I stirred the oxygen tanks, survived a nightmare trip around the moon, navigated home by dead reckoning, survived re entry when we thought we might all die, but get off me I'm not getting in that bloody flying contraption."