Caption competition
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"Please, Sir, do I log this as a landing?"
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"Message from the PMC can he please have his piano wires back as they are required for tonight's piano burning "
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"Flying wires you say, well what about the rest of it?"
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Hello Chaps,
The winner of this Caption Comp (with the aircraft recce trophy as well) is MPN11 with:
(I would put down the 2nd and 3rd place, but each time I look up the list and scroll back down with the copy then the quick reply has vanished)!
Well done young sir - take it away.
The winner of this Caption Comp (with the aircraft recce trophy as well) is MPN11 with:
A major issue with the Maurice Farman S.11 Shorthorn was the amount of typing involved in compiling accident reports.
Well done young sir - take it away.
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""Gamecock, Siskin, Flycatcher all famous fighters and now we have the Dodo"
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"We call this one the Supermarine Spitwire"
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Especially for Danny42C!!
Oh, heck! And thank you! I shall acquire a new tin of Brasso for the awesome CST Trophy for when the Postie delivers it. in the meantime, cogitate on this one. No. 607 Sqn, Burma, to save you looking up the markings!
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True to form the Nav directed them across the muddiest sh*ttiest route totally ignoring the clean path off to their starboard.
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"And the Army tell me they rough it, remind me to let the concierge know the damned jacuzzi is leaking again"
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"So I have got the locals cutting teak planking, the sooner we bury these damned things and get the **** out of here the better."
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Avoid imitations
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According to these plans, the rest of the squadron buried theirs just here...
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" I have your orders here Nav, it says proceed from Biggin at all haste to Egypt, HQ Middle East wants to know what the **** are you doing in Burma"
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...and then this WAAF in the postings office asked me where I'd like to be and I wrote back 'Be Upstairs Ready My Angel', but she misunderstood the mnemonic.
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"I thought we fighter pilots only left our top button undone?"
"We do, but he is a Nav and hasn't mastered the art of doing his up yet"
"We do, but he is a Nav and hasn't mastered the art of doing his up yet"