By silicon.com, 14 September 2007 11:24
This competition is now closed. The winning entry, from reader Helen Monteith was "Just another day on Main Street, Roswell, New Mexico"
Photo credit: Qinetiq
Caption Competition: Fly away on my zephyr?
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1. Rob Pendragon
It's getting better - the first time I misread the spec, and we used a Hephyr
2. Dave Devine
Wanted.. Cabin crew no pie eaters
3. Valérie Ganne
Coming in on a wing and a … Well, actually, just a wing.
4. Rob Falconer
Well that’s all very well, but where are the air hostesses going to sit?
5. Robert Lindsay
I reckon Stelios has taken cost-cutting a bit too far this time, launching EasyEyebrow
6. Rob Pendragon
We’re calling the next one the “Mark Two Cortina”
7. Valérie Ganne
It’s back to the drawing-board, guys. A 54-hour flight, and no toilets?
8. Steven Devine
It obviously uses a coat hangar.
9. Robert Lindsay
The first authenticated flight by the Wrong Brothers
10. Rob Falconer
Hang on, shouldn’t one of us be on that?
11. Steve Devine
I bet it uses a coat hangar
12. Malcolm George
We wouldn't have to chase it if we called it 'boomerang' like I suggested
13. Richard Billett
General panic ensues as the new Microsoft Portacabin fails testing in light breeze.
14. anonymous
A big wing and a bigger prayer...
15. Richard
Where's Hardy Kr? when you need him?
16. Darren Newton
The next generation of 'green' air travel keeps passengers fit too, as they jog behind.
17. David Bowen
In a parallel universe where the Wright Brothers never existed ... the dream of manned flight comes another step closer.
18. Helen Monteith
Just another day on Main Street, Roswell, New Mexico
19. Richard Coleman
You will need: 1 ruler, some rubber bands and some sticky-backed plastic. Here's one we made earlier.
20. Phil H
"Holding this thing up with transparent poles and running up and down is only going to fool people for so long..."
21. Helen Monteith
Forgetting Momma's stories about Alien Space Probes, the 'Krampski Quads' excitedly waved the Martian spacecraft in to land on the patio.
22. Robert Lindsay
I know it’s a Stealth plane, but surely WE should be able to find it
23. Rob Pendragon
After Howard Hughes’ “The Spruce Goose” comes The Flying Eyebrow
24. Neville Byford
Hey - there is some chap called 'Branson' on the phone - wants to know if we can put his logo on the thing?
25. Captain Sensible
I want to believe.
26. piers Dale
Qinetiq launch jumbo size version of old Motorola Wings phone
27. Richard2
Microsoft attacks Europe with flying paper-clip.
28. Richard2
Ok, who invited Uri Geller?
29. Richard2
Reverse engineering: Each new flight is shorter.
30. Jon Morton
(Man on left to man on far right) “Bob, quit flying your weird kites in the carpark, you nearly had my eye out with that thing!”
31. Jon Morton
New Mexico residents were becoming blas?bout the abundance of UFO’s in the area.
32. kenneth wilkinson
"OK,which pillock forgot to put camouflage paint on all the helicopters rotor blades."
33. Malcolm Niven
It took four people to hold the strings, but the other kite fliers were green with envy.
34. anonymous
The IT Deptarment off to convince their wives - "This really is work"
35. anonymous
Microsoft enters aviation arena...
36. anonymous
Budget airliners forced to outsource.
37. anonymous
Having booked as passengers on the worlds first unmanned passenger aircraft, they realised it was going to be a long, long, longggggg walk.............
38. steve maybury
Budget airliners trial new green fuel... let's hope there's a breeze...
39. Karen Challinor
the plane was impressive, so I gave them another sheet of A4 and sat back to see what else they could make ...
40. anonymous
Flying eyebrow evades eyebrow inspectors....Noel Gallagher take note
41. anonymous
GWB - I want one, get rid of Air force 1 and replace it with that.
42. anonymous
The iPlane, form over function? nah! "We'll do it in lots of colours."
43. Jon Morton
As they chased after the roof for the 3rd time, they agreed not to rent cheap offices in windy locations again.
44. Craig Mitchell
3 Man kite flying competition becomes a real drag
45. Pete Waller
"Hey Paul - is the mail server meant to be on it?"
46. Helen Monteith
With the addition of Spandex panels, Harry's Invisibility Cloak covered the cockpit admirably... the wings, however, were another matter.