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Old 25th Oct 2018, 11:29
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From the RAF Desert Survival Manual

In the event of crash landing in the desert, stay with your aircraft. Break off a piece of wing and create a sunshade.
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Old 25th Oct 2018, 11:31
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Paper, glue, bit of a dope, soon get it fixed.
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Old 25th Oct 2018, 12:06
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"I've told you before, Hoskins, with this deck you don't need to round out."
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Old 25th Oct 2018, 12:16
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"Who parked that damned helicopter there?"
"Sorry, there is no such thing as a helicopter!"
"In that case, it must have been fuel contamination!"
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Old 25th Oct 2018, 12:17
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"It's only two days old, so it must still be under guarantee."
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Old 25th Oct 2018, 12:27
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Christ! That was close!
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Old 25th Oct 2018, 12:28
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Bertie, I know I told you to stay close to the Zeppelin but....geezuzz!
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Old 25th Oct 2018, 12:29
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Let that be a lesson everyone! Switch your phones to flight mode!
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Old 25th Oct 2018, 12:30
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"Must've come straight down because there's no skid marks"
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Note to Sales Dept.: Book no more Opera singers for wing walking.
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Old 25th Oct 2018, 12:38
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"I know I said left wing down a bit Hoskins, but not that bloody far"
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Old 25th Oct 2018, 13:07
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ffarnes-Barnes decided his Ski-Jump take-off concept needed more refinement.
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“ ... and you got it up there, so you can get it down again. And THEN you can do 10 pressups and a weekend’s Orderly Officer.”
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Old 25th Oct 2018, 13:11
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“Sorreeeee.”
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Old 25th Oct 2018, 13:26
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Beag's first Solo!
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Old 25th Oct 2018, 13:28
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Fetch the MO, I have a splinter in my sphincter, half of its still in the deck and I can't get up.
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Old 25th Oct 2018, 13:40
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Bally rotten show, Sir, but do try to look at it positively - the mess piano can have its strings back.
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Old 25th Oct 2018, 13:45
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I'm alright with going up tiddly up up, the down tiddly down down bit is where I come a cropper...
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Old 25th Oct 2018, 14:45
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Typical, she's all over the show when things are OK but when her solo flight comes a cropper it wasn't her.

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Old 25th Oct 2018, 15:59
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"Stick your Wing
Into the Deck,
That's the Thing
Saves your Neck"
 


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