Grandpa on the Tornado

[effortless]

“What are those little wing things on the front of the plane for?”

”Well I suppose you could call them a kind of stabiliser.”

”Oh, when he learns to fly it properly they will take them off like you did on my bike!”

Um!

[Video Mixdown]

“What are those little wing things on the front of the plane for?”
”Well I suppose you could call them a kind of stabiliser.”
”Oh, when he learns to fly it properly they will take them off like you did on my bike!”
Um!
I think you mean Typhoon, not Tornado.

[effortless]

I think you mean Typhoon, not Tornado.


DOH! now you know why I’m called Grandpa!

sad thing is she did actuall say Typhoon and she is only 4!

[chevvron]

Nah she meant Viggen; the aircraft we should have bought.

[Wensleydale]

The original gag is about the wheel stabilisers on the Harrier wing-tips, which makes much more sense.

[Biggus]

U-2...

"pogo wheels" is the technical term I believe.

[ShyTorque]

I was at an open day air display at RAF Odiham in 1979 when a little boy asked a Harrier pilot (who was from the OCU at Wittering) about the Harrier’s wingtip “stabilisers” for trainees. The pilot didn’t find it too amusing, but I did!

[Stitchbitch]

I was at an open day air display at RAF Odiham in 1979 when a little boy asked a Harrier pilot (who was from the OCU at Wittering) about the Harrier’s wingtip “stabilisers” for trainees. The pilot didn’t find it too amusing, but I did!

Lol that’s just the sort of thing my Dad would have primed me to ask..🤣.

I remember the Gr3 being a regular performer at Odiham family’s day, along with Vulcan, Buccaneer, and of course the mighty Puma!

[Bksmithca]

At least the training wheels in the U2 fall off after takeoff

[ShyTorque]

Lol that’s just the sort of thing my Dad would have primed me to ask..🤣.

I remember the Gr3 being a regular performer at Odiham family’s day, along with Vulcan, Buccaneer, and of course the mighty Puma!

I was there with the latter type.