Some Aerospace Fun and Humor

[Rhinocrates]

British aircraft carrier to sail to Arctic for secret mission

Britain's high-readiness aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, will sail today for the Arctic Circle to support a secret multinational mission, the UK Defence Journal has learned.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

RAF on alert due to upcoming Arctic cargo aircraft activity

The Royal Air Force will be on high alert from now until the 25th of December to track an unregistered cargo flight from the Arctic region.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

 

[Rhinocrates]

 

[Rhinocrates]

 

[bob225]

I'm not 100% sure that this is right for this thread, however there's no way i'm going for a ride in this!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2bIyQflwX4

 

[Rhinocrates]

Ronald Searle, for the film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, 1965.

 

[publiusr]

I seem to remember a children’s book of those…and a winged red wagon.

 

[Rhinocrates]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNTv5SgM0BM

 

[publiusr]

No fair that he has an uncloud following him everywhere he goes.

Besides…that might induce a lightning strike?

 

[aim9xray]

Why...you're right! He needs to get some wheeled AI-guided autonomous grounding towers to follow him around. Lessee, clickity, clickity, a-m-a-z-o....

 

[Michel Van]

 

[publiusr]

I wonder if you could replace PICA with a hoof mix…

 

[GTX]

 

[Stargazer]

From Milton Caniff's Male Call:

 

[Justo Miranda]

I wonder if you could replace PICA with a hoof mix…

Pika?

Ochotona - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

es.wikipedia.org

 

[Rhinocrates]

Name that airline.

View attachment 712940

I may not be able to name the airline, but the plane's clearly a Boeing.

 

[Arjen]

Ouch.

 

[Stargazer]

A missed opportunity for Bell Helicopters?

 

[Michel Van]

 

[Rhinocrates]

It looks like the Great Galactic Ghoul has moved closer to Earth.

 

[Michel Van]

Translation of German Text

ban on firecrackers?
oh well! one... secretly!

 

[GTX]

 

[aim9xray]

Title: Boeing President Calhoun Proposes Cost-Effective 737 Max Door Fix, Raises Stock Buyback.

 

[Stargazer]

 

[Michel Van]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1754527873421983902

View: https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1754527873421983902

 

[Rhinocrates]

So what's the TRL then?

 

[Orionblamblam]

 

[Flogger15]

MMU humor.

 

[Stargazer]

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[Stargazer]

 

[Rhinocrates]

I first saw this joke in Roger Bacon's column in Flight about 40 years ago. It still works.

 

[Stargazer]

The Air Force is strong with this one.

 

[publiusr]

What an ugly tub.

Oh, nice lifting body, too...

That was going to be the F-4's more aerodynamic replacement, right?

 

[Justo Miranda]

I think it's a good idea for scientists to look for traces of water in the atmosphere of exoplanets in hopes of finding life, but if they modified the sensors to find ethanol they might as well find evidence of intelligent life.

 

[Stargazer]

 

[GTX]

 

[GTX]

 

[F.L.]

When the enthusiasm is a little too strong and you don't even know what the object of this enthusiasm looks like anymore.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1732018576557543542

View: https://twitter.com/mygovindia/status/1732018576557543542/photo/1

 

[TsrJoe]

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[GTX]

Ouch!!

 

[Rhinocrates]