Caption Competition Mk IV
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You don’t need a Propeller, paddle steamers proved that, so I have developed the worlds first twin paddle powered aircraft.
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Well they said a bee cannot fly, but it does and rotates its wings in a circular pattern, so I have adopted that principal.
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"If it looks right it will fly right" ... and so it was proved again.
"Right, that's my 'Build your own genuine Cluster Duck' finally built, at last!"
"OK...., now, how the hell are we supposed to fit these eight engines?"
"OK...., now, how the hell are we supposed to fit these eight engines?"
Gnome de PPRuNe
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I told him not to fly under the railway bridge...
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Ahhh I see, so a combined Royal Navy / MOD committee got involved in the early design stages for the new RAF fighter, and judging by the Wendy house cockpit, at some point the Army got their say too.
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Well, it certainly looks like it meets the brief to repel radar, the problem being though, it will be pushed to repel the Earth's surface.
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We called it Doris after the unusually wide spread of the undercarriage legs .
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Fly it off the deck of a Carrier???? I wouldn't fly it off the end of Bognor Pier.
The Russians’ll never even see it coming!
The F-22 had a very long gestation.
"I am running a sweepstake on how long before Chengdu roll out something similar looking." said Hoskins to the reporter.
I think we will call this AM tomorrow
OK times up. The Thing has to be judged.
Runners up are
Cynicalint with
Well, it Self-identifies as an aircraft!
Jolihokistix
The Russians’ll never see this coming!
But the winner is
1859 sqn
and they said AI couldn’t design an aircraft…
over to you
Runners up are
Cynicalint with
Well, it Self-identifies as an aircraft!
Jolihokistix
The Russians’ll never see this coming!
But the winner is
1859 sqn
and they said AI couldn’t design an aircraft…
over to you