Good things to do to a Tornado, and this was not one of them..
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Try copying these then paste them in the browser window and click return, it should then convert the XX and load it, if not replace the XX with a tt.
Or just click on them and see if it opens them in another window.
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Love the third photo with the guy in the blue boilers suit, shades and a smirk on his face whilst pointing at his mate. So with that in mind who do you think was the crane operator.
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Come on fellows - two pages, and no speculation about how it all happened?
"Biggles turns final without gear. Caravan controller too busy reading Heat/Cosmopolitan/porn magazine and Biggles lands wheels up having not got a red flare. Pi$$ed off with ATC for not doing their job, Biggles dabs in a bit of left rudder, takes aim and then jumps out."
With apologies to the OP of this prose from a different but recent thread... The Tonka and the crane have both definitely made a wheels-up landing there.
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I reckon the movers did not deliver the ballast for the crane, which had not been DI'd properly by the MT driver, then the stacker had witheld the required anchoring as someone else might need it, the plods didn't close the road as they had less than 28 days notice of the requirement - and anyway were sleeping off shift, the riggers had left the wheels off as they had been robbed to keep the display jet flying, the sooties had left heavy engines in, the leckies (DFs) had not removed the fully charged [ and therefore heavier than flat] batteries, the fairy w***ers left all the heavy boxes and radar bits in, ATC denied involvement as the jet was not operating under its own power - that let OC Ops plus the SATCO and Fire Setion off the hook too, GEF said they were not multi skilled so didn't do cranes - chains and slings yes - big yellow cranes no, OC WRAFs said it was in an area where her girls were not allowed out of the compound so it wasn't them .....
must have been the JT armourers fault, always seemed to be the case in Germany
must have been the JT armourers fault, always seemed to be the case in Germany
and this wouldn't have happened at Dhahran...
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If the driver was still in the cab of that crane, I'd presume he's reached orbital velocity by now....
INSHALLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
INSHALLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
I reckon it was down to the dark-skinned chap in the white robes in the distance, seen behind the crane's rear tyres, who's trying to look nonchalant as he walks away as if nothing's happened....