You Folks Are REAL Funny!

We got some amazingly funny captions for our latest contest -- tagging a wood creation from Erik Lindbergh (more information upcoming), who's made quite a splash in the art world. Here's the picture...

...and here are some of your responses:

• Airliner designed by Mayor Daley. --Dan Branstrom
• From the Memoirs of the original Back “Woods” Pilot. -- Rob Behner
• And everyone thought Howard Hughes had a novel idea! -- Mike Marden
• (perhaps our favorite) The Flintstone Flyer -- Anon, Alan Dominy
• What our members are building: "Bedrock Beauty" built by Fred Flintstone -- Larry Martin
• Fred – what have you dragged home now? -- Wilma Flintstone (unearthed by R. Steven Justice)
• Fred Flintstone, you're going to spend more time with her, than me! -- Wilma Flinstone (discovered by Bob)
• Despite the pressures of working in the quarry and raising a family, Fred finally finishes carving his single-trunk kitplane, displayed here proudly at this year's OshRock fly-in -- Mitch Hodges
• Wilma! Have you seen my Pterodactyl scarf?! -- Anon
• "Yup, she's old and heavy, but she still floats and with the right pilot aboard, she sure can fly." -- David, who says, "My 4 year old daughter wants to be that pilot."
• Overheard from the owner speaking to another pilot, "It makes you think when the aircraft is made from the same tree as the prop." -- Herk Strumpf
• For Sale: Homebuilt Aircraft, 99% complete, needs large rubber band... -- Alan R. Sayre
• Introducing The Weyerhaeuser Rocket Non Sinkable Seaplane. -- Fred R Gefken
• Gepetto's Pinoccio-II -- Peter Ashwood-Smith
• After his canoe sank and the river froze over, and only having his ax with him, the missing lumberjack found another way to get home. -- Ron Dixon
• Hey look this is my ride! -- Frank Bokoff
• Pine Gosling... As in baby Spruce Goose -- Larry Bishop
• You’ve heard of the spruce goose?………This is the spruce gosling. -- Walter T. Dieter
• Howard Hughes' "SPRUCE GOOSE #1" -- Wayne Spencer
• The long-lost Vans RV-1 (or RV-2) prototype. Now we see why. -- Rollin Olson
• Yeah, they're gonna call me..."Fastest Man Alive" (Little Howie Hughes, 7th Grade, as he put the finishing touches on this creation he made with "raw materials" -- the Wet bar from his daddy’s office!) -- Charles Fournet
• First airplane, found in Viking Graveyard. circa 1006 AD -- Stan Markus
• You take this big log, and you chisel away everything that isn't an airplane. -- Donald McKibben
• Weird canoe -- the damn thing will never fly!!! Won't float right either -- Leo J. Corbalis
• Ironically, it's got a composite prop. -- Jon Abel
• The 2nd place winner of the "1803 Help Lewis and Clark Explore America" contest. -- Sean Carson
• For the astute, artistic aviator from Acadia to Adirondack - this masterpiece floats even without the floats! -- Andrew
• With the radar cross-section of a mosquito, this new Boeing stealth fighter/bomber makes use of the natural radar absorbing quality of wood and can be manufactured using local Seattle timber. -- Brian Hausknecht
• Capt. Smith and Pocahontas carefully approached the strange-looking canoe -- Roy Harkness
• Barrel of fun -- Clifford Will
• So it goes that Bob the beaver became a pilot and the envy of the dam in a few bites -- Anon
• New FAA approved Sport Pilot training simulator -- Mike Lipford
• Al Gore: "Boy, I'll bet we can get a lot of these for we pay for an F-18" -- Jerry Krainock
• Howard Hughes Spruce goose was displayed today with great expectations. -- Steven B. Wilson
• Only GA aircraft allowed into Washington National! -- Andy Cebula
• What do you get when you cross a Spruce Goose with a Beaver? -- Brett
• Joe wanted to make absolutely certain his float plane never became a submarine. -- anon
• Well... I hope it will at least float. -- Matt
• "Yes, Mr. Inspector. My plane is made of wood and fabric. It handles great. The only problem is that it has the glide ratio of a stick." -- Jeff Salt
• "Mayor Daley agreed to re-open Meigs field, but only for one specific type of aircraft operations (type pictured here) -- Brad Stanford
• Mayor Daley's Floatplane Design -- Dan
• It floated well, but it didn't clear the trees -- Dan
• For Sale. Engine and aircraft logs are up-to-date -- Bill Menzel
• The EAA's newest proposed Sport Aircraft submission -- Erik Ernst
• Mock up of the RV -- Amphib prototype -- Henry Evans
• A Pilots Woody -- Kevin J. Brennan (We're certain he was referring to the classic auto)
• Bush Pilot Special - Floating Woody -- Paul Tostenson (See above...)
• A Woody on Floats... How natural. -- William Carter
• Look, when I said I wanted a "Beach Aircraft," I MEANT A BEECHCRAFT!!!! -- John D. Cunningham
• No matter how many hours you log in this baby, you'll always find it unstable in pitch and completely unresponsive in roll -- Paul Turk
• Plans by the DeHavilland Beavers? -- Greg Carnforth
• The new Sports Pilot regulation is bringing our some new and unusual designs! -- Randy Kenyon
• Appropriately enough... "Cabin Fever." Simple and straight to the log! -- Sid Hausding
• Somehow I thought that Doolittle's Curtiss R3C-2 Schneider Cup Racer was larger -- David Pride
• Wood you like to go flying? -- Andrew H. Broom
• Recently discovered artifact leads anthropologists to rethink the sophistication of Amazonian tribespeople. -- Bruce
• Finally made public and just in time for the release of the Howard Hughes movie The Aviator, the actual prototype for the Spruce Goose -- Steve Masters
• In case of an emergency water landing, your seat cushion can be used as a paddle. -- Doug Peoples
• ...and people, it floats." -- Curt Lohman
• Thanks for axing. I wood love to log some stick time. -- Dave Lowell
• Are you certain it’s "scratch-built"? Looks like a kit to me. -- Mel
• Just revealed, TSA endorsed aircraft for general aviation. -- John Uhl
• "I've logged many an hour in this beast" -- Keith H. Freeman
• Hiawatha was more advanced than the other Indians... -- Brian Rodgers
• Bellanca announces the debut of their first float equipped Viking... -- Steve Serrill
• You've heard of the Spruce Goose. This is the Log Hog! -- Gordon J. Beyreis
• I've heard of "logging" time, but this is ridiculous! -- David Tilley
• Has anyone seen my cask of pennies? -- Lowell Metz
• It does to float....about as good as Ivory soap! -- Jerry Goodnow
• Leafy Canopy optional extra -- Ian Richard Williams
• Hey, I saw this ad for a sea plane rating on the Aero-News.net site, what do you think? -- Dave Zavoina
• They said UNLIMITED racers for the 2005 RENO AIR RACES edition... right ! -- John T. Dickens

Thanks to all who entered their captions! We promised a prize to the BEST submission... so it's time to decide WHO did the best caption... so give us a hand and nominate YOUR pick of the best reponse to this contest... the winner will receive a copy of the new Klyde Morris book! Send your pick to TOP Caption Contest Selections-1213a!

Let's do this again real soon! And if YOU have a picture worth captioning, please make sure we can use it. 

FMI: TOP Caption Contest Selections-1213a!