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Caption Competition Mk III

Old 24th Jul 2022, 23:43
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"LA Centre, Aspen 20. Can you give me a ground speed check?"
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Does it look like a Shark with a friggin Laser beam on its head? Try again!
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Honestly Brian, what on Earth would you grapple at 1900kts???
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Always the prankster, Brian figured that Doris would never find her Epilady there!
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After its earlier success, Mercedes sub contracts it's wind tunnel to NASA...
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At Liverpool University, Jasper Carrot wonders what happened to his Lada.
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Old 25th Jul 2022, 06:11
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Well yes it does have the radar profile of a small Hummingbird, now pop over to Aintree and see if we can find some Pilots.
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Old 25th Jul 2022, 07:47
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Having tunnelled out of Stag Luft 111, McQueen was must surprised to come out in one of Herr Hitler secret Vengeance weapons facilities
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Old 25th Jul 2022, 08:49
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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.
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Old 25th Jul 2022, 09:38
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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!!
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Old 25th Jul 2022, 09:41
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Prizes on the generation game were cetainly getting more Hi-tek .....hope they still have the cuddly toy!!

(One for the Brtitish TV viewers of a certain age!)
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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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Old 25th Jul 2022, 11:00
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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
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No Mr. Bondic, I expect you to dry!
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Old 25th Jul 2022, 11:52
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Now if only Kodak would invent color film.
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