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02-05-2005, 09:03 AM
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Country:  | The Mosquito and the Beaufighter are my top 2, the Mossie looks sleek and deadly, the beau just looks deadly
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02-05-2005, 11:38 AM
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#332 | | Master of Ewes
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(in light of my dietist remark i would like to offer a vegitarian alternative, the beaufighter looks like a carrot).................
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02-05-2005, 12:01 PM
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Country:  | Being a nightfighter thats quite relevant, as carrots make you see in the dark. 
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02-05-2005, 12:03 PM
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#334 | | Master of Ewes
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02-05-2005, 12:08 PM
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#335 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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02-05-2005, 12:32 PM
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#336 | | Master of Ewes
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02-05-2005, 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by mosquitoman The Mosquito and the Beaufighter are my top 2, the Mossie looks sleek and deadly, the beau just looks deadly | The Komet also looked deadly, but in a different form
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02-05-2005, 12:46 PM
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#338 | | Master of Ewes
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02-05-2005, 12:49 PM
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02-05-2005, 06:03 PM
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| One of my favorites will always be the SR-71! So fast and So high and it's the ONLY US Air Force aircraft never to have injured or killed any crewmen in it's 40 year operational lifetime in the Air Force. Also no one has ever shot one down by any means. | |
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02-06-2005, 03:03 AM
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Originally Posted by cheddar cheese Being a nightfighter thats quite relevant, as carrots make you see in the dark. | A friend of mine who retired from the CAA a few years ago met
Cats Eyes Cunningham on a couple of occasions and said he found him a really nice fella. although it obviously was Radar that gave him his reputation not carrots. | |
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02-06-2005, 08:18 AM
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#342 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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Country: | I can just imagine it now
"Listen lads, we're a bit short on resources at the moment so we've done away with your radar and put 2 sacks of carrots in its place" 
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02-06-2005, 08:27 AM
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#343 | | He who does not skim
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Country:  |  That sounds very much like the kind of solution that would occur in the present day air force of a certain country, that shall remain nameless. :-"
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02-06-2005, 08:55 AM
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02-06-2005, 09:01 AM
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#345 | | He who does not skim
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