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Old 21st Nov 2019, 19:43
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"I think I've found the heater control"
"What does it say?"
"Select Cold or Colder"
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Old 21st Nov 2019, 19:53
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Relax. I built it from a Kielkraft kit and fitted a couple of Jetex motors under each wing...
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Old 21st Nov 2019, 19:58
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"The wife's starched drawers are sturdier than this thing"
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Old 21st Nov 2019, 20:00
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Ah Mr Bleriot, welcome to England, now hop it froggy...
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Old 21st Nov 2019, 20:02
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"I can't see this working Higgins, when the bombs drop out of the bottom of the two storage boxes surely they are going to bounce off the lower wing and into the prop"
"Now you tell me, it would have been nice if you had expressed your concerns before we strapped in"
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Old 21st Nov 2019, 20:03
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Ah it says here you took off with 3 passengers, now you have only two?. Well half way across the engine lost power and we had to lighten load, Algie was jettisoning the canopy and he slipped
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Old 21st Nov 2019, 20:05
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The downward firing Irish ejection seat was rated at zero - zero. even on the ground ...
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Old 21st Nov 2019, 20:59
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We're Knights of the Round Table,
We're quite indefatigable,
Oh, Sorry! Wrong Movie! (But we do have a grrrrrrrail!)

- Ed
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Old 21st Nov 2019, 21:48
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"There's good reason why the song isn't called "Those Men in their Magnificent Flying Machines".
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Old 21st Nov 2019, 21:50
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"Oh great, we have a flowerpot man as the pilot"
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Old 21st Nov 2019, 22:41
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The concept of reverse thrust hadn't been thought through all the way. Ground ops were OK, but needing somebody to look backwards in flight was going to be a problem.
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Old 21st Nov 2019, 23:22
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"Get off that wing!"

"But it says LEAN HERE"

"That's because the wing is too thin to be leant on safely just there."
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Old 22nd Nov 2019, 00:18
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The man in the Baggy Trousers said "This is Madness!" but the pilot said, "No, we are Devo!"

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Old 22nd Nov 2019, 00:41
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Whilst the other 3 were quite progressive, the Fourth Horseman decided he'd prefer to ride.
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Old 22nd Nov 2019, 00:42
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MCAS proof of concept flight.
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Old 22nd Nov 2019, 06:47
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Messer's Heath, Sinclair and Robinson proudly unveil their AquaAeroAuto to stunned silence
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Old 22nd Nov 2019, 08:51
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F-35 cancelled - then this!
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Old 22nd Nov 2019, 09:07
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John Gillespie Magee Junior takes two shorthand writers with him when he slips the surly bonds of earth on laughter-silvered wings in case he feels like dictating something memorable.
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Old 22nd Nov 2019, 09:31
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One day all pilots will have a moustache like mine
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Old 22nd Nov 2019, 16:34
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This is the solution to the terrible injuries suffered by survivors of early air crashes.... design a plane guaranteed to leave no survivors!
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