Try typing ‘109G’ into this:

http://images.google.com/

Only about 100,000 images I’m afraid but some may be of use! 🙂

Is it ‘international get your name in the newspapers week’ or something? :confused:

Thomas the tank engine is sexist, well possibly, but not as influential as say Christianity, Judaism or Islam, which IMHO are all a tiny bit sexist but I don’t see any of these academics having a go there!

“…a fat, jolly and somewhat tipsy Father Christmas sends out the wrong message and could damage millions of lives…”

Damage millions of lives, (:rolleyes:) possibly but so could the manufacturers of certain sugary brown flavoured drinks but I don’t see anybody criticizing them! I wonder why…

…oh yes…..Santa Claus wont sue your **** off in court will he? 😀

‘Lead’ added to petrol is in very small proportions, less than 1:1000 so the effect will be small (although it is actually tetra-ethyl lead that is added which is about twice as heavy as the petrol it displaces).

If you read Yefim Gordon’s ‘Red Stars’ Vol 36 – you will find various tables regarding Yak-38 attrition stats – and comparisons to Harriers.

Number of aircraft in squadron service/No of accidents/Total hull losses/Fatals

Harrier 241/83/57/52
Yak-38 115/16+2 (in 1981)/12+2(1981)4+1

Which Harriers are we talking about here?

The RAF operated 123 GR1/GR3 and 21 T2/T4 followed by 96 GR5/GR7/GR9 and 13 T10/T12, so in total about 253 aircraft. Of this total about 80 have been lost in crashes but with only about 25 fatalities in the forty years of operation between 1969 and 2009.

The quoted figure of ‘52 fatalities in 57 hull losses’ just seems a little high. :confused:

I assumed it was a Barracuda, now I don`t know!

I thought it was a Barracuda too…..so doesn’t that make it a Griffon engine? :confused:

Just in case you didn’t know what it looked like here’s a photo of it complete with bonus Merlin. 😉

Bonus Griffon surely? 😉

Short SC.1 first vertical take-off in 1958…..was this the first VSTOL jet?

I thought that was a possibility except that the front-centre strut is hopeless for that purpose, is similar in construction and fitting to the wing struts, and the arrangement round the radiator is seems to be obviously for heating.

I know the CAM ships did some of the Russian convoys so surely the heating idea makes sense?