At least it wasn’t ‘We go all the way to make you feel special’

It’s an offence to Impersonate a police officer, is there not one also for the offence these thieves?, who dress up as x Forces personnel?.

I suppose the problem is here that if caught they could easily argue that they were a re-creationist just playing along. Obviously there are already laws about obtaining money by deception but stopping people from making up stories about their past for no obvious gain apart from self-gratification is unlikely to ever come to pass.

“Pilots are so used to the auto pilot being in control that they have little experience of extreme conditions in manual control. Extreme conditions cannot be simulated in most flight simulators.”

Maybe I have missed something, but surely this is the very raison d’etre of the flight simulator?

Just watched ‘5 Days of War’ (2011) about the 2008 Russia-Georgia skirmish. Interesting setting with some good Mi-24 and Su-25 action although the story is rather uninspiring.

Ponderosa War Weekend – got to return the favour for my wife coming to Waddington and getting up at 5am to do so, by going to see some Hellcats.

Pics of aircraft civil and military and airport movements can reveal much to unsavoury characters with very serious anti social motives.

Perhaps photographs of the baggage handling facilities would be possibly of interest for anyone planning a Lockbie style bombing, but all of the recent airplane targetting terror attacks have either involved suicide bombings carrying explosives on the person, or via the postal service, neither of which could particularly be aided by photographs of aircraft.

Likewise pics of trains and railways (including stations, marshalling yards, etc) can be a haven for terrorist plots. e.g. in the USA freight trains are so very long (100-200 cars) that one can read a chapter of a novel while waiting their movement across a level crossing. I brought this up as the rear cars being a potential terrorist vehicle for routes in to city marshalling yards e.g. of getting a ‘dirty’ nuke or similar un noticed in to a city or metropolis.

Never heard of this idea before, I can’t see how putting a weapon on a railroad train would be any easier than driving it into a city, particularly since American railroad yards are often quite away from city centres and the particular routes of trains can vary heavily. In the event of an alert being sounded, it would be very easy to stop all of the trains entering an urban area (even if it would take weeks to search them all) than trying to stop all vehicle traffic. Not sure exactly what photographs of the trains would serve to prove either.

I think I got lucky. Coming down the A1 followed the yellow signs to the A17 then up towards the base. Got filtered into the first car park on the way in and then a quick bus ride down, about 8:30 (did mean a 6 am start though).

Got some neat photos which I will put onto my Flickr account in the next few days.

Not been to a major airshow in a long time (last one was a Mildenhall show!) so obviously it was mostly new to me and I thoroughly enjoyed it. If I was being very critical I would say that having two groups of four-ship Extra 300 displayers did get a little repetitive and the subsequent Yak just seemed a little lost in the sky in comparison.