Would the range of a Concorde have been much greater than a Vulcan or Victor at that time ? Also if a concode flew part of its ‘mission’ subsonic was its range significantly increased ?

Surely the cutting of the first piece of steel cannot be far away ?

Additionally that pilot is under orders from the airforce as to what he can and cannot do, the Russian manufacturers test pilots probably are not. I have a suspicion that this is the reason I have never yet seen a truly impressive Eurofighter display (I have only seen about 4 though) yet the ‘experts’ tell us that it can pull out the stops, if required…………….

Uk Newspapers this morning are speculating that there may have been a fire at high altitude

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They will probably just call the dog ‘boy’ in on screen conversation, or something similar so that they get round the name issue.

According to the letter Des Browne sent to the Guardian yesterday, the defence budget is increasing well above the rate of inflation. He did imply though that some budgets were having to be temporarily cut and others increased. I guess the MOD is no different to any other large organisation in that respect