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The Central Flying School during WW1 was brutal, when you were chopped, you were chopped.
The Sopwith Camel ejection pod was an unqualified success, except for the wheels which had a tendency to roll it into enemy trenches.
- Ed
- Ed
Trainee soldier from A Country Which We Do Not Respect: "And when I want to retreat, can I turn my seat around to face the way I'm going?"
-- "Oh, there's no time for that - we retreat facing backwards."
-- "Oh, there's no time for that - we retreat facing backwards."
I got this with the first issue of the magazine, only 2 years to go and I will have the whole plane.
Gnome de PPRuNe
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Private Baldrick's only cunning plan of any merit enabled Blackadder to deal firmly with Captain Darling...
"When fully developed, it'll be the world's first combine harvester. We just need to add functions for reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing."
-- "And lay railway tracks in all the world's grain fields."
-- "And lay railway tracks in all the world's grain fields."
Big Bertha....nay Lad this is Lil Burper!
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Irish F1 car disqualified for having no wings.
"A green light in the cockpit means your undercarriage is safe to land on, so you're going to be stopping soon. A green light outside the cockpit means full speed ahead. Is that clear?"