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Old 21st Nov 2016, 12:23
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 12:43
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I'll take off the Kiddie wheels when you take off that ridiculous helmet!
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 13:00
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"No, Sir, this is how its stored. When you need to use it, you soak it with water and it expands to full size."
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 13:01
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...And in a alternative universe, Chuck Yeager found the sound barrier really was a barrier!
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 13:29
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"Inverted flight? Good Grief man...you will be lucky to achieve level flight in it."
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 13:35
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"The designer?.......ohhh, he is on secondment from Hasagawa, he used to design their egg plane range"


See

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ha...w=1280&bih=895
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 13:36
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^^^^

Oh, I thought it was the toy out of a Kinder Surprise...
Err no, that would be you.
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 13:44
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That's kinda not a surprise
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 14:17
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 14:22
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"Do you remember the old joke about a camel being just a horse invented by a Committee ? Well, .......... !"
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 14:31
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"I hope you read Aeronautical Engineering at university before you built this."
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 15:48
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"Will it Fly? Hell no, this is something Henry Moore knocked up in his metalwork class.
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 16:35
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"For the last time, Ace, will you kindly stop asking, 'But where's the rest of it!!??' ."
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 17:05
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Yep, Apparently they have found an idiot to fly it....
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 17:41
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"Well....we had a load of left over Meteor engines, and someone at MOD Procurement thought of a way to make twice as many planes, and the rest is history......"
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 18:02
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Wheels? No room as it would spoil the area rule.
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 18:03
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This is the Blackburn Cannonball, its nickname is flying pear.
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 18:07
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This is the Blackburn Cannonball, its nickname is flying pear.
Flying "pear of anguish" by the look of it!
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 20:54
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Keep them coming.....judging tonight.
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 21:17
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Why is it so shiney?

Well SEngO said we might as well polish a turd
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