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  • in reply to: Save a Basset #899367
    AlanR
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    There is a Basset CC1 with the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection and examples of the 206 at Brooklands and the Midland Air Museum.

    Roger Smith.

    Thank you Roger

    in reply to: General Discussion #233470
    AlanR
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    Corbyn is damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t, and the Tories have been very careful to place him there. This is as much about destroying the Labour party as it is about ISIL.

    The Tories don’t have a very good press either at the moment.

    I thought Corbyn came over pretty well on the Andrew Marr programme on Sunday.

    AlanR
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    Corbyn is damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t, and the Tories have been very careful to place him there. This is as much about destroying the Labour party as it is about ISIL.

    The Tories don’t have a very good press either at the moment.

    I thought Corbyn came over pretty well on the Andrew Marr programme on Sunday.

    AlanR
    Participant

    Too much about the cold war role of the Vulcan.
    It’s a shame they couldn’t have included film of him at the (actual) last flight.

    in reply to: General Discussion #233600
    AlanR
    Participant

    That’s a bit political 🙂

    in reply to: Merged thread – Unelectable Corbyn and Let's not bomb ISIS #1800500
    AlanR
    Participant

    That’s a bit political 🙂

    in reply to: General Discussion #233605
    AlanR
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    As someone suggested on the radio this morning. Cameron wants the RAF to go in and
    use Brimstone as a sales pitch.

    How utterly ridiculous……….. probably :rolleyes:

    in reply to: Merged thread – Unelectable Corbyn and Let's not bomb ISIS #1800502
    AlanR
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    As someone suggested on the radio this morning. Cameron wants the RAF to go in and
    use Brimstone as a sales pitch.

    How utterly ridiculous……….. probably :rolleyes:

    in reply to: Save a Basset #899700
    AlanR
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    A bizarre way of looking at the preservation of our heritage: presumably the sort of thinking which resulted in all our WW1 aircraft individual RFC record cards being binned. It might have seemed like they had ‘limited appeal’ at the time, but many curse that decision in wise hindsight.

    Thank goodness that zoos don’t follow the same ‘logic’.

    A “bizarre” comparison, but hey ho, who am I to argue ?

    As I asked, how many museums have a Basset on display ?

    in reply to: General Discussion #233615
    AlanR
    Participant

    A quote from the Telegraph:

    Britain will have to put soldiers on the ground in Syria if it wants to defeat Isil even if David Cameron wins a parliamentary
    vote for airstrikes, one of the UK’s most senior military figures has signalled.

    The stark message came as former military leaders and a senior MP warned the RAF will not be able to sustain an effective
    bombing campaign because of a lack of aircraft.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/12023527/British-troops-will-be-needed-on-ground-to-defeat-Isil-in-Syria-former-military-chief-signals.html

    Wow, none of us saw that one coming !! :rolleyes:

    in reply to: Merged thread – Unelectable Corbyn and Let's not bomb ISIS #1800527
    AlanR
    Participant

    A quote from the Telegraph:

    Britain will have to put soldiers on the ground in Syria if it wants to defeat Isil even if David Cameron wins a parliamentary
    vote for airstrikes, one of the UK’s most senior military figures has signalled.

    The stark message came as former military leaders and a senior MP warned the RAF will not be able to sustain an effective
    bombing campaign because of a lack of aircraft.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/12023527/British-troops-will-be-needed-on-ground-to-defeat-Isil-in-Syria-former-military-chief-signals.html

    Wow, none of us saw that one coming !! :rolleyes:

    in reply to: Save a Basset #900067
    AlanR
    Participant

    Eh? So we only preserve our aviation heritage if it has mass appeal? Thank goodness this isn’t the case.

    I am merely pointing out that an aircraft such as the Basset, might have limited appeal to the public in general.

    How many are on display in museums around the country ? I have no idea, without Googling.

    in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #900070
    AlanR
    Participant

    I hope the F100 goes to a good home. What a waste if she gets left outdoors.

    Agreed. She should have been in the American hangar.

    in reply to: General Discussion #233741
    AlanR
    Participant

    Forgive me Alan, but that’s always been the appeasers’ argument. Well the threat will be certainly be no more than it already is!!

    I prefer to think of it as the “realists” argument Charlie. Only time will tell though.
    My only hope is, that after we start bombing Syria (which seems likely), terrorist attacks don’t start taking place on British streets.

    AlanR
    Participant

    Forgive me Alan, but that’s always been the appeasers’ argument. Well the threat will be certainly be no more than it already is!!

    I prefer to think of it as the “realists” argument Charlie. Only time will tell though.
    My only hope is, that after we start bombing Syria (which seems likely), terrorist attacks don’t start taking place on British streets.

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