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If you could have any kind of private jet, which type/brand would you choose?
[Asking for a friend.]
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Invisible, like Wonder Woman's.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Wouldn't that be hard to park?? 
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Only for other people.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Yeah, I wanted to have an invisible car...
until my dad ask "How would other cars know not to hit you?"
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Go to YouTube and search "Dashcams Australia"*.
Cars don't know not to hit you with a visible one! 
* I know there are others, but the Ozzies just seem to do car crashes so much more professionally. It's almost as if their driving licences are issued via Christmas Crackers ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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again, it would only be worse if they couldn't see MY CAR. LOL.
Those were crazy!
I've always watched the Russian Versions!
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Why, why, you black heart!
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Obligatory YouTube[^] 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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You'll get a bad reputation.
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Too late! 
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The more you have the less you need. Sounds logical to me.
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Gulfstream. Any one of em would be fine, thank you.
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BAC English Electric Lightning! If I could afford a jet go big or go home!
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When I worked at British Aerospace I saw (and heard) one of those taking off on full reheat. Toddled down the runway, lifted off slightly, rotated to 90 degree straight up and whoosh! Gone up through the clouds in seconds! Power to weight ratio of greater than 1 - which means it could accelerate while going perpendicular!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Mad, insane aeroplane, the wing flaps were part of the fuel tanks and they leaked like a sieve. How cool, I wanted to fly one, sadly got too tall and eyesight went then I wanted to go to Thunder City is South Africa, but thats not an option now! (you crash one jet!)
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When I trained at Vickers Armstrong (what became British Aerospace ) in Weybridge Surrey UK in 1968 ( I was fifteen ) , there was a TSR2 on the runway, I sat beside it several times and ate my sandwiches. It never flew again as far as I know.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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TSR2 the coolest Jet of the '60s!
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Yes it was an incredible machine - unfortunately Harold Wilson scrapped it - years later we got the Harrier but the TSR2 was first.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The TSR2 had several issues, before VLSI everything had to hand wired making it very labour intensive to maintain & the slab side fuselarge would mean at low level you would get blown around (the US Navy had the same issue with the A5) at the point in time the Hawker P1127 Kestrel was showing promise and became the Harrier (Once it was realised the supersonic Pegasus engine would destroy what ever surface it was landing/taking off from). Still a really cool machine though, lots of theories why TS2 was scrapped.
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