Caption Competition Mk III
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Gillette's new Mach 3+ razor...
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The design was delayed several years while Black and Decker came up with an electric drill big enough to mount the wind tunnel model on.
So let me get this straight Hoskins....
...Birds are caught on the 'skewers' at low level....then cooked perectly during the High speed/altitude cruise...and then eaten by aircrew on return thus saving money on catering....
...Hoskins, you are a complete...........GENIUS!!
...Birds are caught on the 'skewers' at low level....then cooked perectly during the High speed/altitude cruise...and then eaten by aircrew on return thus saving money on catering....
...Hoskins, you are a complete...........GENIUS!!
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Ah I see the problem, when we sent out the specs demanding a radar cross section equivalent to 10th of the current aircraft, we never envisaged that BAe would simply shrink the aircraft and skimp over the fact it was to be manned.
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I told you to treat it like woollens, a 70 degrees wash was to hot for it, the bloody thing has shrunk...
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Engineers were still struggling too find a way to incorporate a Sky satellite dish into the intake shock cones.
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We got the idea for the port engine weaponary from the Dalek's
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Not a caption:
Is that John Young in picture of the same wind tunnel tests below below? Sure looks rather like him and that looks like a NASA patch on his flying suit.
https://rollingsteel.it/wp-content/u...-vento-103.jpg
Is that John Young in picture of the same wind tunnel tests below below? Sure looks rather like him and that looks like a NASA patch on his flying suit.
https://rollingsteel.it/wp-content/u...-vento-103.jpg