"Always treat your kite.....like you treat your women."
On this Day 1906 Flt Lt Guy "Tadders" Tadman (also his birthday) became the first person to qualify as a Spitfire pilot with just 20 mins training and a week later started the famous Spitfire squadron 20 Sqn! (aka The 20 Minuters) #HappyBirthdayGuy #AvGeekpic.twitter.com/YUl6BY5sCC
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Dump them in a field and hope they're still there when you next need them?
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Isn't that a Phantom? (the aircraft, not the bloke...!!)
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What bloke? Must be a ghost!
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Ah, the famous Mk20 Spitfire, with its two bladed prop, a fabulously unsuccessful variant.
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Worth noting: prior to radio, the pilots telephone number was written on the side of the plane so that lady admirers on the ground could phone and leave messages for him with his valet. At the insistence of the Min Health, the pilot's std status was later added - hence the 'V'.
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Well I'd have guessed tadders was because he only needed a tad of practice
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Hahaha yes!!
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