Join In! Caption the picture!

[brett 2,316]

Customer to aircraft designer:

      "Your Fired!!!!!"

[Gunner 69]

Plane is built.Now... think think think...how do we get the pilot in the cockpit?

[brett 2,316]

Commander to new test pilot,

"Yes, it's true the first four of them crashed but we're pretty sure we got it right this time."

[allardjd 1,853]

The V-3 Flugzeug-HugeKludge.  Wir die verdamt Engländer und Amerikaner machen kaput mit gross spitzenschparken und udder wunderbar stoff, ja?

 

 

[hifly 925]

'Number 9 Hans here, Fritz have you noticed ze lack of propellerz und enginez in zeez planez?

[J G 927]

No post for a couple of days now so perhaps I can close this early....

 

The winner is:

 

John Allard with:-

 

"The V-3 Flugzeug-HugeKludge.  Wir die verdamt Engländer und Amerikaner machen kaput mit gross spitzenschparken und udder wunderbar stoff, ja?"

 

Well done John! your turn.

 

I chose this fictitious monster as when I saw it I just felt it needed a daft caption.  I saw Mussolini ranting at the aircraft designer shouting "No stupid-o, I said-a I wanted-a Bomb-a to drop-a di bomb-as, not to drop-a di bombers!!   

[jaydor 345]

Oh! and I was going to say "Where's the bloody starter button"?

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

Not as fictiticious as you may think, this aircraft was a serious proposal by Daimler Benz under their projekt A programme.

http://www.luft46.com/db/dbbomba.html

 

http://www.luft46.com/db/dbbombb.html

 

http://www.luft46.com/db/dbbombc.html

 

http://www.luft46.com/db/dbbombe.html

 

http://www.luft46.com/db/dbbombf.html

 

http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/DaimlerBenzProjectBPage.htm

[allardjd 1,853]

Interesting, but it's not like Daimler Benz has/had any great reputation as an aircraft designer.  Engines, certainly, but never an aircraft that I'm aware of.  Hard to see this as anything more than a pie-in-the-sky proposal from a dark horse company in the field of aircraft design and probably not ever really seriously considered.  The denizens of the Third Reich aviation industry had a habit of over-reaching in design.  Much of what they proposed was just nuts (like this one) and some of what they actually built didn't perform very well.  Often the reason for that was the unavailability of engines of sufficient horsepower, requiring the fitting of smaller, less suitable powerplants and rendering some promising designs to also-ran status or worse.  Ironically, it was often D-B who couldn't provide the required engines.

 

Some of their stuff did work well, of course.  One can't ignore that.

 

John.

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

Thankfully the war ended before many of these things ever came to fruition, though of course some ideas did re emerge in Russia and East Germany where a lot of these were adapted into perfectly servicable aircraft. Germany's engineers were(and still are) among the best in the world and it's thanks to them that many of today's aircraft are the way they are.

[allardjd 1,853]

Let's see what you guys can do with this for inspiration....

John

 

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

You know it would have been so much easier to call Kwik Fit!

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

Never a bloody jack around when you need one!

[Gunner 69]

Hold it, please. I'm back in five minutes...ok?

[hifly 925]

'And then we gently lower it onto the trolley...  Where's the  trolley jack?'

[Ruzzo 59]

American Servicemen in Iraq get to grips with the new 'Aircraft Lifting' event which will be included in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

[J G 927]

Here we see rare footage of two SAS troopers engaging an Iraqi aircraft in unarmed combat during the first Gulf War.

[brett 2,316]

Although new to the aircraft repo business, the boss kept them around for laughs.

[J G 927]

Here we see Fred and Joe moving an aircraft before they discovered that pressing 'Y' and then the arrow keys was an easier way to do it! 

[brett 2,316]

"Push it here over, push it over there, the boss sounds like my wife."

[brett 2,316]

"I hate my job" "Me too"

[mike H 456]

Ground crew to captain will you make your B------- mind up where you want the nose wheels to go.

[mike H 456]

Souvenir hunters caught on CCTV   BB is watching you.

[UKJim 502]

Instructions:

 

1. Push wheel into the standard nose wheel position locking spring in place

2. Press the bug red button for launch

 

CAUTION! 

Spring activated take-offs may cause whiplash

[allardjd 1,853]

Great submittals, guys.  I'm going to have to go with John Guest who contributed...

 

"Here we see rare footage of two SAS troopers engaging an Iraqi aircraft in unarmed combat during the first Gulf War."

 

Your turn to post one, John.

 

John