This 1960s Fighter Jet Ad Is Hilariously British

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Today's military ads are filled with steely-eyed gazes of people doing extreme things and looking very resolute about it. Vintage British promo videos are more like Austin Powers does the Royal Air Force.

Yes, this RAF Lightning fighter jet video has a flute soundtrack. Yes it has a hokey British narrator. Yes it's one step away from a Mitchell and Webb parody.

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It's brilliant.

(Hat tip to Banovsky!)

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