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It's the Robinson R666 - it digs its own grave...
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Schweizer have branched out into diggers - you should have seen what the late Dennis Kenyon could do with it!
"We proudly present the first prototype of our Rotating Runway so aircraft can invariably take off and land exactly into the wind. Of course, we'll scale it up for fixed-wing aircraft."
After their merger, the IPO of the Robinsopillar Corp was, like their product, a total disaster.
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World, meet Gyrowacky!
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The Irish Air Force unveil their new attack helicopter designed for trench warfare.
Its climb rate leaves something to be desired, but, by God, it can excavate its own landing zone....
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For workmen who dig square holes that ought to be round, this handy digger can be used upside-down to verify the roundness of the hole.
(Thinking of Bernard Cribbins:
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(Thinking of Bernard Cribbins:
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It's not actually on a plinth. It lost tail rotor drive, and when it stopped spinning, that's just how it ended up.
Well it's a COVID thing, as a result of retraining out of work pilots. Everyone is happy. They get to wear their white shirts, epaulettes and feel important, and we get our holes dug.
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The rotors weren't actually designed that short - it was all going swimmingly till he tried to lift the first bucket-load into the tipper truck....