Yes 3 people have been awarded the VC and bar.

Ah Arthur this is the word you missed in my post “approximate” I have double checked and it’s definitely there.
And I’m am terribly sorry that some people find the imperial system beyond their mental capability but this is why I believe we should understand both systems to make life easier for our Continental friends 🙂

Now I have to go and measure something, luckily it only has to be a rough guess, now wait a minute, one minute of arc of a great circle of the Earth divided by one thousand……………..! 🙂 🙂 🙂

And of course a pint of room temperature ale is far more flavoursome than any deep frozen lager. 😉

Also I note you are from France so you would be aware that the Emperor Napoleon hated the metric system and banned it in 1812.

Guess what Arthur, we are capable of coping with both systems.
Imperial lengths are far more user friendly,if you need to measure something it’s quite easy to approximate, 1 Inch=the length of your thumb, 1 Foot=the length of your foot, 1 Yard=The distance from the tip of your nose to the tips of your fingers on an outstretched arm, and so on, the metric system is based on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the Earth, very intuitive? I think not.

Bloody lucky that it happened whilst on the ground then.:eek:

I’m thinking of the AF A320 crash at Habsheim where they were doing a touch and go and ended up in the trees..the computers continued to land even though full power was applied

Well the pilots flew an aircraft full of passenger’s 30 feet above the runway at slow speed low power and nose high, I think banging on full power at the last moment to save themselves from disaster is asking a bit much of any aeroplane.

Who’s going to RIAT?

Anyone with more money than sense, I would presume. 😉

Well I suppose you could always pay twice as much to go and watch 90 minutes of football. 😉

Just had a look at the participating aircraft, it will be nice to see some Navy Harrier’s

Spanish Navy that is 🙁

There is an interesting post in this thread on the PPrune Forum, check out post #8

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=273874