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Caption Competition Mk III

Old 2nd Nov 2021, 09:51
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I told you this wing folding mod wasn't going to work. Were far to big to land on a carrier anyway.
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 10:01
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We could sell it to the Brits, they buy any of our old crap.
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 10:06
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NOOOOOOOOOO, you were only supposed to disable the ones left at Kabul..
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 10:08
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Lowering the flaps was never going to improve the situation mate.
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 10:10
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...Could we turn it into a helicopter?
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 10:11
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I bags changing the engines on 1 & 4!
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 10:13
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Yes, I know we agreed to lend you an aircraft for the Badmington horse trials cross country, but it was for a backdrop not a jump, and you do realise it needed to go back into service afterwards.
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 10:14
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Do you think they'll notice it?
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 10:16
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That's what you get with filling the Stb galley lockers first.
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 11:04
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"Minus 3g?? How did that happen Hoskins??"
"Well, sir, we were in IMC and suddenly this Massey Ferguson helicopter flew in front of us, I had to bunt to get under it."
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 11:36
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Frank, the Starlifter, was totally knackered after the Kabul airlift!
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 11:54
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I always knew carbon-based fuels would destroy the Earth. I just didn't expect it to start happening so soon.
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 11:57
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"Not that sort of Full Flap!!"
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 12:00
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Vought reveals its prototype F4U Globemaster IV
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 12:02
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So that's why they put that big red cover over that button!
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 12:19
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Which leads me on nicely to.....

You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off..
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 12:30
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Oi mister, yer bouncy castle's come unplugged again.
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 13:46
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Hoskins’ interview without coffee lasted several days … and still failed to discover how he had achieved it.
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 13:49
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Investigators failed to discover how a tractor could have fallen onto the wing from a great height …
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Old 2nd Nov 2021, 13:55
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”What happened, Charlie?”

”Lt Hoskins reckons he hit an unknown object in the South China Sea.”
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