* crew scramble (sorry Sophie)
BREAKING: Crew prepare modified Apache #MarsHelicopter ready to become the first aircraft to fly on the red planet (Mars).
The helicopter was designed by Boffins at LARPA and is fitted with 4 M16 machine guns in case it finds space aliens!
Photographed by a Canberra #AvGeekpic.twitter.com/kBhqvm1K0i
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Jolly good show chaps
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Was it difficult to tilt the Canberra sideways to make these photos with the belly camera?
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No need just used the navigators compac mirror. Always handy to have
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It looks much bigger in real life
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I can just make out the words "We Come in Peace" underneath the machine-guns...
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Oh I remember this well. Because of the lack of air on Mars, they designed it with a lack of rotors, obviously!! Great helicopter
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"lack of rotors"? One poor (presumably SSS (Special Space Soldier?) has to fly it on their own? A co pilot would surely stop the fatigue?
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Hopefully we can outgrow the childish fetishisation of deadly weaponry before we meet any actual aliens, and hopefully they will have too.
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'Deadly weaponry' is a tautology, unless you count water pistols as weapons!
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