The Boys' Own Book of Aeroplanes

V force?

Yep. Early versions of the Vulcan & Victor also.

Me too - awesome beast of a thing. They had to bend the wings to help the landing gear lift the aircraft far enough to clear the enormous prop, and they put the pilot high up with a great view (when airborne anyway) in a big comfy cockpit with an ashtray! Just the thing for those long range escort missions …

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:grin:

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Although this is the only Galileo plane I can find.

Indeed.

Finishes pint, cracks knuckles; “Alright . . . where’s that chopper at?”

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Pedant alert, the “ploughmans lunch” wasn’t invented as a name until the mid 50’s and Brown did that helicopter flight in 1945

Pick up all sorts of shite via QI :grin:

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You’ll have to take it up with him* as that’s how he described what he ate during the talk he gave.

*I mean, he’s dead so you’ll have to go and shout at his grave or something.

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I can’t, not since that legal incident with Thatchers grave and the very loud use of CUNT!!!

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A10 Warthog!

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3 seconds continuous firing and you stall your plane :nerd_face:

Assuming you have some degree of aim, I’m unclear what would need more than 213 rounds of 30mm cannon shells short of a fucking Kaiju.

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I believe you will find, that is an urban myth.
Worked on them. It was never a problem.

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Flaming groundhog . . . ‘merican style :man_cook:

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I guess it depends how trigger happy our Yankee friends are feeling… they seem to get confused who to shoot

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They have done some particularly fine idiot trawling recently.

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