A Dutch F-4F (sorry, print only)

This aircraft was repainted on the July, 11th 1983 by Dutch technicians at
Twenthe Air Base into a Dutch F-4 “Phantom II”. The aircraft flew two times in
this livery. During the flights parts of the self adhesive markings went lost.
On the next evening all markings where removed again and the rudder was
repainted into its original colour scheme. The code TW313 on the left side and
TW315 on the right side represented the two Twenthe based Dutch Squadrons. 😎

Not the best picture, but it is nice to see that the Phantom was yet again in Dutch service. 😀 http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0773374/L/

Looks like Boeing are back in the lead already. Never mind Airbus.

Airbus 46 – Boeing 68

see below

Air India have just orded 68 aircraft.

23 x 777s,
8 x 777-200LR (Longer Range) Worldliners and
15 x 777-300ERs (Extended Range),
27 x 787-8 Dreamliners.
18 x Next-Generation 737-800s. for Air India Express, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air India,

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=38235&page=2

Well: The order, placed with Boeing in December 2005, is valued at more than $11 billion at list prices and deliveries are scheduled to begin in November 2006.

So placed in december 05, then it still is 46 – 0 for airbus 😎 .

Good news for Airbus!

A possibility…………..but what could be the alternative? That perhaps needs more thought.

Let’s just say that they had made it clear what they intended to do………..for expamle if you were aboard one of the aircraft involved in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre??????????????

That is the problem, how can you be absolutely sure? How many planes were hijacked for the purpose to make a statement or ransom or whatever versus how many planes where hijacked to purposely crash them? I think the balance would favour the first numerous times.

So if that is the case and you do attack the terrorist then there would more likely more people killed because of that then in any other way. I don’t think the hijackers (I dislike the word “terrorist”) will make their intentions clear to the passengers.

It is the same with a bank robbery, the best is to obey the people holding the gun so the authorities can deal with them, whom are trained to do so and more importantly have the means to do so.

But this is all hypothetical because how many of you can honestly say what they are going to do. I for one can’t.

http://media3.big-boys.com/content/theairforcefun.wmv

To add on that, space assets are predictible, hence you could hide something which you don’t want your opponent to see. (Might be a little difficult with a nucliar power station ofsome kind (who said Iran :)))