"Hoskins, I'm pretty sure this isn't what they meant when they said they wanted a water bomber to fight the bushfires."

The pilot in the background, looking to distance and thinking "well, I've always wanted to be a painter."

Well on the tin it said ' Fast Set Concrete ' my ass...

"A little heavy on the braking there, Hoskins?"

When the base water ski club's boat went u/s, Hoskins used his initiative...yet again.

"Is it a Mirage"?

"No - its definitely there".

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For once, Hoskins, your round out was perfect. Unfortunately...

"...and so I only noticed that the undercart was still retracted when it took afterburner to taxi..."

On the plus side Sir, it will save us a fortune in buying aircrew access steps

Fireman "Ere Sir....you've left your cannopy open a bit"
Pilot "If you knew what I had left in there after that landing....you would do the same"

Well someone is in for a probing after this.

Where's Lofty??
Under the Aircraft checking the gear pins...
We don't use gear pins..
Call me Shorty..

Well that's one way to dry out the Base Cricket Pitch...

Pilot Misses as he walked off....it's still moving faster thay that other great design, the Jaguar....

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Some people seem to think it is in water - it is on a wet runway at Tullamarine in Melbourne.

The pilot didn't actually realise he had left the gear up until he hopped out of the cockpit and found the ground closer than expected. He then looked back in the cockpit to see the gear handle up. It was then an exercise to prevent the firies from filling the cockpit with foam, especially when he had to grab the firies' hose which was being fed through the ejection face blind handles to hold it still...

Guy in Background: "....Hello? Wing Commander? Hoskins here...ummm, the good new is, I'm okay...ummm..."

Thank God, I had drop tanks! Could you imagine what could've gone wrong wi....errr...never mind

Australia determind to win the Olympic Bobsleigh championship trail their new toboggan at a secret location.

Look at the skidmarks, the worst one being the pilots..