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Previously on "'Ere, anyone want a 2nd hand Spitfire?"

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  • EternalOptimist
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    here is the blighter that buzzed me,

    apparently it was on or around 11th july 2009, flying out of duxford


    Duxford Focke Wulf 190 and Messerschmitt 109 WW2 Fighter - YouTube

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    I don't need one to drive a starship*.


    *Apparently a wig is necessary to drive early versions of the Enterprise though.

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    Chocks away!

    Tally ho!*

    *You need a big handlebar moustache before they let you say this.
    Have you got one? Or are lizards exempt?

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  • hyperD
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    Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
    Spitfires buried in Burma during war to be returned to UK - Telegraph

    One careful owner.

    Buried for 60 odd years.

    Should be good as new.
    Me me me!

    So I could say "Gad! I think Ginger's just bought the farm! Damn you Jerry, damn you!"

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    I wonder how they had sex in the back of that?
    you would have to ask the rear gunner




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  • hyperD
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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    I wonder how they had sex in the back of that?
    Tantrically.

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Originally posted by k2p2 View Post


    Used to park next to one of this (not quite so shiny). Never seen it fly though.
    I wonder how they had sex in the back of that?

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  • mudskipper
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    coming back up the M1 on a gig a few years ago, a blooming messerschmitt came over the trees at angels .5
    I thought it was on a straffing run to get me for something bad I had done in my yoof





    Used to park next to one of this (not quite so shiny). Never seen it fly though.

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by nomadd View Post
    Surely if you were in an M1 (M1 Abrams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) you could have "had a go at Jerry"?
    he came out of the sun, in my six.

    I didnt stand a chance against that Fokker



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  • nomadd
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    coming back up the M1 on a gig a few years ago, a blooming messerschmitt came over the trees at angels .5
    I thought it was on a straffing run to get me for something bad I had done in my yoof



    Surely if you were in an M1 (M1 Abrams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) you could have "had a go at Jerry"?

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  • EternalOptimist
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    coming back up the M1 on a gig a few years ago, a blooming messerschmitt came over the trees at angels .5
    I thought it was on a straffing run to get me for something bad I had done in my yoof



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  • SupremeSpod
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    Originally posted by Halo Jones View Post
    Well it would make the commute more fun
    Drove past a replica Spitfire in Lytham-St-Annes yesterday.


    Ohhhh look.... http://www.w3644.com/

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  • Halo Jones
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    Well it would make the commute more fun

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  • zeitghost
    started a topic 'Ere, anyone want a 2nd hand Spitfire?

    'Ere, anyone want a 2nd hand Spitfire?

    Spitfires buried in Burma during war to be returned to UK - Telegraph

    One careful owner.

    Buried for 60 odd years.

    Should be good as new.

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