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Caption Competition Mk III

Old 5th Apr 2021, 14:09
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Well it wouldn’t be a wide load if you hadn’t fitted the bloody Speys.
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Old 5th Apr 2021, 14:21
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Pull up whhoowhoo pull up whoowhooo.. ah firke it.. whoowhooo.
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Old 5th Apr 2021, 14:33
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But it makes the ideal decoy, we drive it around the airfield and it can be seen moving.

but they’ll see the truck

Ahhhhhhh, we are still trying to figure that one out
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Old 5th Apr 2021, 15:11
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When Mach Tuck becomes Mac Truck.

- Ed
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Old 5th Apr 2021, 15:19
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What you can buy on Amazon now just defies belief...

Yes and it doesn't half bugger up the delivery man's day if you're not in.
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Old 5th Apr 2021, 15:38
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I’ll sit in the cockpit; so let me know when you want to overtake and I’ll engage reheat!
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Old 5th Apr 2021, 15:57
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Reads delivery note..." Just leave it behind the shed if not in. "
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Old 5th Apr 2021, 15:58
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....and to get the wings off just drive between these trees
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Old 5th Apr 2021, 16:01
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Man in blue boiler suit takes the tie down chains,
" gotta train full of tanks needing these more. "
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Old 5th Apr 2021, 16:03
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Tear down nibbler moves on, hold still this won't hurt at all...
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Old 5th Apr 2021, 16:11
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Heath-Robinson re-imagines the length of string/slammed door method of dental extraction...
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Old 5th Apr 2021, 17:42
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When you said we were doing Arctic trials, I naturally assumed Norway, Sweden, Canada, somewhere northern and snowy, and not Artic trials.
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Old 5th Apr 2021, 19:56
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Phoawr...A Scania R750, can photoshop out that heap of junk on its trailer.
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Old 5th Apr 2021, 20:06
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Aircraft With Unusual Landing Gear Configurations, suggestion #276.
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Old 5th Apr 2021, 20:07
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And thus the Disney epic "The Lion King" was born.
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Old 5th Apr 2021, 20:47
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Well Skip, I’d say you pretty much undershot the approach to Duxford.
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Old 6th Apr 2021, 00:20
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I'm to deliver it to the highway department. Seems one of 'em has read a book and decided they can use the thing for a tollbooth.
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I know some saddo's want to have cockpits in the spare room and ditch the rest of the machine, but a Scania?
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Old 6th Apr 2021, 10:36
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And in the next step towards the Greening of Great Britain, the Royal Air Force has painted flames on its latest fire trainer, saving well over a tonne of CO2 every year.
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And for steep inclines we chuck a couple of diesel motors on the back to help us up.
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