A Novel Approach to Explaining How Aircraft Are Able to Fly

So there I am, thinking: "as we've all got that run-up-to-Christmas, end-of-term feeling, wouldn't it be nice to write something amusing in the newsletter this week?" And would you believe it, in comes the perfect email from a reader, who we shall call Bob R (mainly because that's his name). I'm instantly hooked, because the email reveals exactly how the lift required for an aircraft to take off is furnished by the passengers pulling up on their seat armrests. Brilliant.

Now, before I go any further, I'm normally very reticent to pass on "funnies" which get sent round by email, because nine times out of ten we've all seen them before. However, this item, "A Novel Approach to Explaining How Aircraft Are Able to Fly", was new to me, and I hope it's one you haven't seen either. I can't date it, although I found a couple of fairly obscure newsgroup references to it on the web from a few years back. And I can't find an author, but if you know where it came from, please tell me.

As it systematically offends most European nations in a most stereotypical way, I've put it on my website rather than Engineeringtalk's! Without further ado then, off you go to:
http://www.chrisrand.com/aircraft.html
(and it's perfectly safe for office viewing, by the way)