Caption competition
Avoid imitations
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I can't wait for the talkie movies to be invented - I wanna make a noise like a dive bomber!
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It took the inventors of the Brompton folding bike a little while to realise that their product would be much more compact if it used pedals rather than a V8 aero engine.
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"I tell you, it might look like a flowerpot but it cuts the engine noise out"
"Precisely, so I now have to listen to this bloody big speaker ATC installed centrally behind out seats."
"Precisely, so I now have to listen to this bloody big speaker ATC installed centrally behind out seats."
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Well Ginger! I must say having a mid air collision with a bike makes me think these are not "lucky hats" at all...
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So why do you you call me Ginger?
errr.. its the way you cross your legs!
CRM in the early days....Two HP, One pulls...the other pushes, one does into wind T/O's and Landings, the other does Cross-Wind's. Even BA would have trouble defining the shift of duties between HP/NHP/HLP/NHLP.
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"Broadsword calling Danny boy...broadsword calling Danny boy..."
"I'm sitting right next to you, you pillock!"
"I'm sitting right next to you, you pillock!"
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BAe trial the worlds first rearward facing cockpit, in a £1,000,000 design study, unheard of in 1917, the enhanced visibility of having the engine and propellor behind you was proved, a further £2,000,000 MOD sponsored study to address the poor pilot control layout and operation was announced.