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Caption This for 07/18/14

Posted July 17, 2014 4:45 PM by Kaplin
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07/17/2014 5:59 PM

Propeller Li flew over the set of Hero and this is what happened.

[Probably too esoteric but I am curious if anyone else sees what I was trying for.]

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07/17/2014 6:10 PM

I see that KrisDel has sold several of their Chinese repeating crossbows.

Ironic, isn't it, this image appears here the same day that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down.

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07/17/2014 6:41 PM

Rodger Ramjet never did buzz the archery range ever again.

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07/17/2014 7:20 PM

Del the Cat, brings down Canine flight 101. Film at 11.

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07/17/2014 7:41 PM

An attack of the giant white soul eater bird was met with 10,000+ bow packing warriors today....Tribal elders declared the souls of departed ancestors safe for another year....Tribal leaders knew what it was right away because the collective moaning of the souls could be heard....and its coming was foretold by the sacred paintings of the caves....

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07/17/2014 10:07 PM

Upon landing at the local airport restaurant tower asked the pilot if he had a reservation.
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07/17/2014 11:28 PM

To which he responded, "No, but I crossed the reservation en route."
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07/17/2014 10:11 PM

The Politically Correct finally drives home its point to Redskins owner Daniel Snyder.
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07/17/2014 10:44 PM

That's the last time I fly over the Comanche reservation in a Cherokee.
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07/19/2014 1:31 PM

Very funny . CR4's aviation expert, masu, has had to be absent for a while. I know that he often used to fly into Papua New Guinea, and your comment may be a lot truer than you know ! I'll not be able to resist asking him. GA.

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07/18/2014 1:14 AM

Lift vector analysis the old way.

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07/18/2014 7:27 AM

Not what I was expecting when I visited the pierce-arrow museum in Buffalo......

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07/18/2014 7:55 AM

Sacrebleu! I just flew over Agincourt, the "hundred years war" is still happening!!!

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07/18/2014 8:40 AM

Next time the natives gonna be in for a little "SURPRISE"!
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07/18/2014 8:41 AM

"Jock, start the engines! Get it up. Start the engines!..."

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082971/?ref_=ttmd_md_nm )
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07/18/2014 9:30 AM

Must be a French Plane.

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07/18/2014 9:34 AM

Gulliver's travels interrupted

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07/18/2014 9:54 AM

"Ladies and gentlemen, the new, 2014 Arrowcoupe!"
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07/18/2014 11:02 AM

"Its your own fault flying over Harlow so low, so often, you knew Del lived there!!"

"STAY AWAY!!!! THIS IS NOT STANSTED!!!

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07/18/2014 11:41 AM

" INJUNS!!! "

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07/18/2014 12:45 PM

The FAA issued a reminder that acupuncture is not a substiture for the required aircraft maintenance checks.
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07/18/2014 4:51 PM

Custer's next stand. -- JHF

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07/18/2014 4:55 PM

Clean solder + avionics = tin whiskers ! you should know better.

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07/18/2014 7:09 PM

This plane is arrow-nautically designed.

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07/19/2014 2:17 AM

GA but:

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07/19/2014 3:12 PM

I knew Piper were coming out with a new version of the Archer, but I think they went a bit too far.

PS: I can't see any markings or registration numbers, but the colour scheme makes it look suspiciously like an aircraft I used to fly on a regular basis back in the late 70s and early 80s. I don't know how many different colour schemes Piper offered their aircraft in, but I never saw one with the same colouring as the one I flew in my travels around Australia, PNG or New Zealand.

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07/21/2014 8:10 AM

After much discussion at the filed shoot it was agreed that the fuselage scored as a "Kill" but the wings only counted as a "wound".
Jim the pilot complained bitterly that he was told he was towing the target

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07/21/2014 9:50 AM

To answer your question - Yes, the natives are restless today.

I knew that fly over was a little too low.
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07/22/2014 2:28 PM

Glad to report that the test for the self-sealing fuel tanks worked exactly as planned.

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07/22/2014 5:30 PM

I guess I shouldn't have practiced my "touch and goes" in that porcupine habitat after all...

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07/23/2014 8:21 AM

You need to be careful flying through those wind vectors!
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