The Never Ending Story

[onetrack]

......the huge Turbine Inc conglomerate being formed, with its primary source of endless income being selling the rights to make blueprints for rag and tube aircraft. Yes, dear NES readers, it's a little-known fact, that no matter what type of rag and tube aircraft you purchase, design or build - the giant global corporation, Turbine Inc, with its tentacles reaching into every corner of the globe - gets a kickback, artfully hidden in the build costs of your terrific rag and tube flying machine.

 

This unending source of income is what has propelled Turbo to reach the same level of obscene wealth as the mining robber barons of W.A. Disturbingly, in amongst the Turbine Inc future plans are schemes designed to ensure Turbine Inc gets a share of flying school fees, airstrip car parking charges, a hidden surcharge on ASIC cards, royalties on coffee purchases at airports, and even a.................

[turboplanner]

........cut on every white line marking on every airport.

Given the massive load of social media comments recently, Turbo has also been investigating the possibility of a royalty on every post, like singers get in return for a modest management fee or ......

[Captain]

15 hours ago, turboplanner said:

........cut on every white line marking on every airport.

Given the massive load of social media comments recently, Turbo has also been investigating the possibility of a royalty on every post, like singers get in return for a modest management fee or ......

.... in an even more shocking revelation based on Cappy's recent AI searches, Turbo is actually the T in RoTax and receives an automatically monitored and generated royalty every time a RoTax gearbox rattles ...... plus the "Wreck" in Wreck Flying was modelled on Turbo's body, so he already cops an, until now, secret kickback for every post & photo.

 

However Cappy is speechless, which is unusual and demonstrates the magnitude of his shock, that during the above mentioned AI search, Cappy asked AI for details on the origins of the term AI, and AI reported that the A in AI has been licenced worldwide by Turbo because (and there is some congecture between GROK and MS CoPilot on which of the following is correct) the A is either the 1st letter of Turbo's actual given name, or alternatively the A stands for "Arsehole", which also references Turdy (or perhaps both are correct, in which case he would receive 2 royalties for the price of one), so that is all another reason to ..... 

Edited yesterday at 03:01 PM by Captain

[turboplanner]

.....make more and more posts. It doesn't matter what's in them; every little bit helps, because Turbo donates a substantial amount of money maintaining the airstrip in the Spratleys, the upkeep on what is now the "Lodge" a five story building; one floor for   Turbo, one for Chairman Xi, one for Cappy, one for the girls and one for Cappy's gin distillery.

BTW Cappy has taken to wearing slippers and smoking a pipe while at the Spratley's Lodge.

One sunny day, Cappy decided he'd Teach Chairman Xi to water ski behind the Lodge Thruster. It was failrly straightforward; the rider would float in the shallow water off the end of the runway. The tow rope would stream back to where the Drifter was moved up for take off. The Drifter would take off and Chairman Xi would be able to water ski in Shark Strait. On the first morning the bluehead wouldn't start .............

 

 

[Captain]

.... however after Tink got his can of Start Ya Bastard from Bunnings, he also recalled his banner towing days from when he was trying to get Henry Bolte elected, so he set Qi up in banner towing position, on his back with his feet spread wide in the air, and with the towrope between his feet.

 

Then Turbo zoomed down (avref) in his mk vii Thruster at 190% vne, with tow hook deployed, and judging his height above Qi's ample .....

[turboplanner]

.....midriff dropped the hook right on the belt. Xi was away like a Taiwanese who'd booked the wrong flight destination.

Just then the bluehead ran out of Start Ya Bastard, and Turbo's predicament, with the rope firmly under Xi's belt was very similar to a story an old boundary rider told Turbo at their campfire a few years ago out on the boundary of Old Mundowdna Station.

 

They'd talked for hours, exhausted all the usual stories and finally the old rider said "I was camped up the track one night and needed a crap. I the dark I squatted down on a dingo trap an it grabbed me nuts"

"That must have hurt" replied Turbo sympathetically.

"Yes, it was the two most painfull experiences of my life" the rider said.

Turbo was confused "How could it be two lots of pain?" asked Turbo

The old rider poked the coals and said Once when the trap went off, and again when I ran out of chain!"

 

Now as he looked over the side of the Thruster with nothing on the Tacho, a rope stretched out behind him, and Shark Strait below ...............

 

[Captain]

.... when he saw Qi look up and it was as if old Ping had heard and understood every word and nuance of the boundary rider's story, because he contorted his body, raised his head and clenched his teeth into a dingo trap position and shape, from whense he moved like a cat to clamp them around Turbo's n......

Edited 21 hours ago by Captain

[turboplanner]

............ylon seat with the breathing hole in it through which, as Cappy correctly surmised.................

[Captain]

9 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

............ylon seat with the breathing hole in it through which, as Cappy correctly surmised.................

.... , they dangled and moved like a metronome in opposite time to Turbo's PIOs.

 

So, soon Qi was swaying too in order to be able to bite at the peak amplitude of the left or right oscillation. (Qi also noticed, and later wrote a biology paper about it) that Tubb's left and right ones moved in slightly different time to the overall left to right oscillation of the complete package).

 

Qi's choppers were poised to .....

Edited 21 hours ago by Captain

[turboplanner]

.......grab when a shark saw the enormous body in the water (head out of the water of course), concluded it was a female shark and started to mate.

 

The Drifter, its silk wings groaning lifted out of the water, Turbo screamed, Xi's eyes bulged and the shark, a young one, thought WTF. 

 

Xi was in the most comfortable position as they climbed through 50 feet, and started to laugh. When he opened his mouth .............

[bull]

12 hours ago, turboplanner said:

.......grab when a shark saw the enormous body in the water (head out of the water of course), concluded it was a female shark and started to mate.

 

The Drifter, its silk wings groaning lifted out of the water, Turbo screamed, Xi's eyes bulged and the shark, a young one, thought WTF. 

 

Xi was in the most comfortable position as they climbed through 50 feet, and started to laugh. When he opened his mouth .............

...............a fish popped out and fell onto his enormous .......................

[Captain]

1 hour ago, bull said:

.... a fish popped out and fell onto his enormous .......

..... , (and it really is that big) .....

[turboplanner]

........wing, which he had developed over a period of 17 years.

He started with the original Drifter wing which, as everyone knows...............