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Old 8th Sep 2018, 21:19
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"Apparently they call this 'being late on the round out', Hoskins."
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Old 8th Sep 2018, 21:22
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"He says his name is Michael O'Leary, and if you want to take your bag in his plane it'll cost you and extra shilling!"
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Old 8th Sep 2018, 21:47
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"I say these RFC chaps are not the type we want in the Regimental mess, the chap in that one asked me to smoke a kipper for him and he would be back for breakfast"
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Old 8th Sep 2018, 21:49
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"Their first aeroplane you say!, I say give them a hundred years and you will probably find they still have the same amount of aeroplanes"
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Old 8th Sep 2018, 21:50
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"Where does one carry ones horse?"
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Old 8th Sep 2018, 22:21
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With the cancellation of the F-35, and the date falling on the same day as the football grand final, there was a disappointing turnout to the 2019 Trooping of The Colour.
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Old 8th Sep 2018, 23:15
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"Is it going forwards or backwards?"
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Old 9th Sep 2018, 01:05
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They say it's powered by 80 horses. Stuff and nonsense! I can't even see one...
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Old 9th Sep 2018, 01:23
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I say is that your brother up there?

Goodness no, he has a respectable occupation, he is a piano player in the local whore house,
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Old 9th Sep 2018, 02:59
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...and that kite could go even higher if we had a longer string.
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Old 9th Sep 2018, 03:18
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Can't be that hard. Apparently they let NCO's fly 'em.
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Old 9th Sep 2018, 03:21
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Before the invention of the windsock, enterprising flyers would use anything handy to gauge the wind speed and direction when overhead the field.
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Old 9th Sep 2018, 03:26
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Too close for Lancers, switching to Huns (in the Sun)
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Old 9th Sep 2018, 03:28
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It's the future of Warfare I tell you Bertie! With these Babies up in the sky, we'll know exactly where to charge & Britannia will rule again!!!
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Old 9th Sep 2018, 04:06
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Ah.... Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines....Given me a idea Lord Rawnsley
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What was in that message Bertie threw down ? It Says ' we could go faster if the watch was lighter

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Old 9th Sep 2018, 05:35
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Look at that! I told you adrenaline is brown...
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Old 9th Sep 2018, 07:04
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On a windy day, the ceremonial flypast could take half an hour.
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Old 9th Sep 2018, 08:04
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"Mark my words. It'll be the 1960s before a military plane can fly so slowly again."

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Old 9th Sep 2018, 08:39
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"Oi, we'll race you. Give you 20 seconds' start."
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Old 9th Sep 2018, 08:48
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"There I was, upside down, with nothing on the clock but the maker's name... thought I'd seen the horsemen of the apocalypse!"
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