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And Top Gear thought they were doing something new

Started by Aircav, February 06, 2010, 08:57:49 AM

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Aircav

"Subvert and convert" By Me  :-)

"Sophistication means complication, then escallation, cancellation and finally ruination."
Sir Sydney Camm

"Men do not stop playing because they grow old, they grow old because they stop playing" - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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beowulf

hehehe...cant beat in field ingenuity by the guys on the ground  ;D
.............hes a very naughty boy!
allergic to aircraft in grey!
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time........Bertrand Russell
I have come up with a plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a weasel. ......Edmund Blackadder

B777LR

Didn't some Vietnamese villages convert F-4 drop tanks into canoes?

Mossie

Yep!  The F-4's dropped thousands of the things all over the jungle.  Some enterprising fella realised they'd make very good canoes & the idea caught on.  This one is from Laos & hangs in the lobby of the Royal Armouries at Leeds, I snapped it on a visit a few years ago:





I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

B777LR

How is the fuel kept in them? In removable bladders of some kind?