"Per Ardua ad Astra" the motto of the British Royal Air Force. Loosely translated I think it means, "...Get Me Down from Here!" Anyway here's Bob the Bunny with his restored P-40 "Flying Tiger".
Again as with most of Bob's activities I have no idea how this happened. Where he got the plane who or what taught him to fly, and where he got all that live ammunition are mystery's.
Suffice to say for a hand puppet he's a good pilot. He'd have to be to do the sharp turns while flying in my living room.
Eh,..he sez his flying license was suspended for buzzing the anti-Queer "Saint Patrick's Day Parade". He he went back'n forth dropping rainbow colored stink bombs on it. I dunno you might have seen all that on the news.
So now he mostly flies indoors or at the park. Well this when he, and his pals can get a truck to haul the P-40 down there. Bob being I'm beginning to suspect a magical bunny uses some sort of Mojo to shrink the plane down to his size, and off he goes. This is especially handy when flying in my cramp apartment.
For whatever reasons he sez he can't make it smaller when he wants to move the plane around like as I said to the park. 'Seems Rabbit Majik has limitations.
Stay tuned.
Okay here's what I wanna know about the P-40. I read that part of Roald Dahl's autobio where he talks about being a fighter pilot for the RAF in WWII. He flew a couple or three kinds of plane, and the first one he flew had no aiming mechanism for the machine gun. He had to actually point the plane at his target in order to fire at it (the bullets were timed to slip between the propeller blades). His next plane was much better because he could aim the machine gun separately. So my question is: do the guns under the wings of the P-40 adjust separately, or does Bob have to fly directly toward his target?
ReplyDeleteDahl was much too tall for the fighter plane cockpits and really had to squeeze in. I doubt Bob has that problem.
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