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Old 9th Mar 2024, 17:13
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Edith Piaff felt compelled to write a sing that caught on more than the plane did.
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Old 9th Mar 2024, 17:15
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UMMMM Guys, weren't we supposed to wait until we were in range to the target before I got deployed ?

We don't like fighter pukes !
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Old 9th Mar 2024, 17:18
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Theme music playing in the background: Engelbart Humperdinck's "Please Release Me Let Me Go"
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Old 9th Mar 2024, 18:42
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"Hey Nav! What was the safety height over Blackpool againl"?
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Following the success of Air/Air Refuelling, range was further increased by the development of the Air/Air Elsan Emptying technology. (Later known as A&AEE).
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Old 9th Mar 2024, 21:49
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Monday: The USAF tests the world's first airborne trebuchet on a B29.

Tuesday: The USAF searches through the debris of the world's first airborne trebuchet and B29.
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Old 9th Mar 2024, 22:15
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Hoskins, I'm not sure this Pogo Stick Landing Gear is going to work properly!
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Old 9th Mar 2024, 22:23
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Over Tokyo they found themselves forced to commit harakiri/seppuku.
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Old 9th Mar 2024, 23:29
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The complexity of symbiosis in nature is hard to mimic with technology, but this parasitic fighter is as close as it gets for 1948 technical capabilities .
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The hungry bomber was Goblin up all the spare metal to recycle into more useful beer cans .
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Old 10th Mar 2024, 00:20
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"But I was supposed to get in BEFORE you lowered the Goblin!"
"Ahhh, shaddup and go down the ladder you worthless knucklehead!"
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Old 10th Mar 2024, 04:33
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Think Bubble over B29 canopy

Well at least we get to go home when the mission is over.
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Old 10th Mar 2024, 05:39
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I’m gonna bounce that aircraft.
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Old 10th Mar 2024, 05:39
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Errr, shouldn’t we be towing the target?
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Old 10th Mar 2024, 05:41
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We got the idea from the War of the Worlds film, right, let’s drop these Mexicans we scooped up back over the border.
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Old 10th Mar 2024, 06:04
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Right, that’s her gone, so let’s head home guys!
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Old 10th Mar 2024, 07:43
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"Are you sure that the tasking wasn't for a Chinook?"
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Old 10th Mar 2024, 09:35
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There's got be an easier way to provide an aerial camera platform for the Super Bowl...
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What does it do? Nothing, but the Ruskies don’t know that and they will spend billions trying to replicate it to find out.
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