April Fools Day 2024

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Get ready for the April Fools Day funny / fake stories tomorrow.

Forewarned is forearmed 

[mr.bluesky]

Unusual to have Easter Monday and April fools day on the same day 

[StingRay]

Unusual to have Easter Monday and April fools day on the same day 

Haha, you had me going for a minute!

[PepeMAGA]

Haha, you had me going for a minute!

Is he not right though?

[mr.bluesky]

Is he not right though?

Of course. Easter Monday falls on 1st April this year which just happens to April fools day.

[Blackpool Rock]

Is he not right though?

No it's not, due to the clocks going forward the previous day 

[PepeMAGA]

No it's not, due to the clocks going forward the previous day 

Lol

[RandomGuy99]

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Ahh, hopefully this can be done privately away from publicity and the media glare

[myothernameis]

Harry Kane, Germany April Fool

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[RandomGuy99]

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[PepeMAGA]

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Ha, funny thing is you do see people saying they should be using the Harrier still, and being serious

[RandomGuy99]

Ha, funny thing is you do see people saying they should be using the Harrier still, and being serious

We sold them to the Yanks for spares.

[mr.bluesky]

We sold them to the Yanks for spares.

Yanks still fly them as the AV-8B,  manufactured under licence by McDonnell Douglas ,they will remain in service until 2025. Used mainly by the US marine corps. Called the widow maker by US pilots because they lost so many pilots in early service learning to fly them. Argentinian pilots christened them Black Death because they knew they would come out second best in a dog fight with them during the Falklands conflict. 

[PepeMAGA]

Yanks still fly them as the AV-8B,  manufactured under licence by McDonnell Douglas ,they will remain in service until 2025. Used mainly by the US marine corps. Called the widow maker by US pilots because they lost so many pilots in early service learning to fly them. Argentinian pilots christened them Black Death because they knew they would come out second best in a dog fight with them during the Falklands conflict. 

Amazing really that there still relevent 40 odd years on

[mr.bluesky]

Amazing really that there still relevent 40 odd years on

Very much like the Hawk jet trainer (as used by the red Arrows) first flown in 1974 so this is now 50 years old 😳

[PepeMAGA]

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I don't think so, pal.

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I don't think so, pal.

[cunningman]

Very much like the Hawk jet trainer (as used by the red Arrows) first flown in 1974 so this is now 50 years old 😳

To be entirely accurate - Red Arrows (RAFAT) are still on the Hawk 1 with modifications, but all training is now Hawk T2 since 2009.
And apparently most of them now have the engine issues fixed.  Fingers crossed it stays that way.