Caption competition

[Boudreaux Bob]

The Officers Sit Down Strike was going very well.....except no one had noticed the difference.

[Surplus]

As soon as this fog lifts, we're off.

[Buster Hyman]

"Ok, ok...right! I call to order the meeting of the Peoples Font of Judea"
"I thought we were the Popular Judean Front?"

[TyroPicard]

Once we're airborne we can wave our mugs at the photographer, it's bound to be a hit....
Loose leaf in the sky with diamonds......

[Wensleydale]

"Once we're airborne we can wave our mugs at the photographer, it's bound to be a hit....
Loose leaf in the sky with diamonds...... "


For the benefit of rickety Kite (or the pilot, Sgt Pepper).

[622]

Right, I make it 2014..I don't think they are coming to rescue us Sir!

[simon brown]

"If Hardy Kruger was here, we'd have re built this thing and flown out by now!"

[Hempy]

"...and that was the first time I ever ran out of fuel.

Then there was the time in '23 into Khartoum..."

[Dan Gerous]

Nav, nip up the nose and do a bacon and egg fry up, on the anti dazzle panel.

[Buster Hyman]

The anti-flash paint was a good idea...a bit premature, but good nonetheless.

[Surplus]

I still think we should be towing the target further back.

[Big Pistons Forever]

You know you have been here too long when the Camel stew starts tasting good...

[Big Pistons Forever]

And to think I actually believed the recruiter when he said

"You'll get to fly fighters during the day and enjoy a nice scotch at the mess every night"

[NutLoose]

"And then this damned officious chappie came up to me and said where is your safety tabbard"

"So what did you do then?"

Why I shot the blighter, we can't have these damn jobsworths cluttering up the Empire, how would we ever get anything done... what!"

[Boudreaux Bob]

"Join the RAF me old Dad said, You don't want to find yourself posted to some horrible sandy place wearing Khaki now do you, he said!".

[NutLoose]

"When they said Fly with the RAF, I thought they meant in an aircraft not surrounded by bloody bluebottles."

[Hydromet]

You know you have been here too long when the Camel starts looking good...

[Vitesse]

I will go through the thread later and post the winner.

Some real crackers so far.

[Boudreaux Bob]

"We could have been on our way out of here if Smithers had not let the Ali Baba's nick the Engine!"

[Vitesse]

And the winner is. ..

Thanks gents,

Norman McMillan, the distinguished pilot and author from whose book I lifted the pic ( my copy inscribed Xmas 1937) might have been tickled by the entries.

Hon. mention to Surplus

"I still think we should be towing the target further back"

3rd Big Pistons Forever

"And best of all there will be all the necessaries fitted out for you at your new base in Jordan"

2nd Buster Hyman

"Come on chaps, one of you has got to fly it."

1st 622 (who reminded me of a film from years ago)

"Right, Sir. I make it 2014. I don't think they are coming to rescue us"

Congrats 622, pm on it's way. Thanks for all the entries!

PS any errors in this post entirely due to cut and paste by pen and paper.