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"I heard him mutter something about don't pay, we'll take it away"
"Yep, the crane spins round and round, faster and faster, the plane rises until its wings are level and its airspeed a good 100 kts, then we start the engine, release the ropes and bisto! it's airborne without burning an ounce of fuel."
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"Ok yep, that should do it, get onto BAe marketing and tell them to add into the MOD brochure about its ability to stay aloft for 6 hours without refuelling, thus meeting their specification"
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I got this after watching one of those films with the Jungle traps. Anyway, the guy installing it said we'd have no trouble catching intruders...
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"I know you want a profile of our aircraft painting on the hangar wall, but couldn't you just have got a stencil?
Could you not just gotten a step ladder from Stores so you could change the wing tip nav light?
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"Man nearest left, don't get stroppy with me"
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"Are you sure this is how we remove the wings?"
"Well that's what the Herc guys over there have done"
"Well that's what the Herc guys over there have done"
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"Nope, it still won't fit in the Herc, what about we try standing it on end next?
Actually filmed at Kemble and the dismantle team complain, if only we had studied a little harder we could have that job in Arizona.
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Rube Goldberg* does airplane cleaning...
*It's America. Heath-Robinson fans can substitute a GAL Fleet Shadower or a Short Seamew
*It's America. Heath-Robinson fans can substitute a GAL Fleet Shadower or a Short Seamew
